The apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations that would apply to every other industry is now presenting major complications for the people of NY State. How much environmental damage must be done before government officials start doing their job of protecting their constituents, instead of trying to put band-aids on the wounds caused by their energy system mismanagement?
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Now, private citizens and public officials are pumping the brakes, trying to slow a movement in which momentum exceeded readiness, politics outweighed planning, and taxpayers were left holding the bag yet again.
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Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their elimination.
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“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance.
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“Competition on its worst day is better than regulation on its best day.”
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The looming problems with reliability are not just a matter of acquiring new resources too slowly, as the NERC report implies, but also a more daunting problem with procuring new resources that are difficult to quantify and expensive to make reliable. In my mind, I see lots of wishful thinking. A likelihood of blackouts well above 0.027%.
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The United States is running short on the equipment that keeps its lights on. The components supporting our grid are difficult to procure, increasingly costly, and, for certain equipment, largely imported. That strain will only grow as electricity demand surges from AI data centers, electrification, and domestic manufacturing.
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But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.
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A truly independent grid operator would surely be ringing the alarm bells now over the looming catastrophe facing us.
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The fact that EV power usage is invisible could be hiding problems that are serious and rapidly growing. We really need to understand what is going on.
Our power grids are built around alternating current, that is current that varies in a regular sine wave pattern over time . . . . Voltage also varies in the same way. This electricity is generated utilising some fundamental principles of physics. If you rotate one magnet inside the magnetic field of another magnet you can induce a current in a wire. In our power grids, this happens in…
Policymakers should resist calls to turn back the clock. Competition, not monopolies, will help the Trump administration protect customers from the costs of new energy infrastructure.
The EIKE author concludes that batteries alone cannot guarantee a secure power supply. Even under massive expansion scenarios for 2030, gaps remain (especially in winter) that would strictly require a flexible power plant reserve (e.g., gas-fired plants) or imports.
Electricity is not a luxury. It is a necessity that underpins economic growth, public safety, and household stability. Ensuring its affordability requires more than promises. It requires policies that encourage efficient investment, allocate risk appropriately, and maintain reliability.
During and following the January winter storm there were at least eight consecutive days when the New York total wind and solar production was less than 6% of the capacity available. These are the conditions that require DEFR. Without DEFR, intermittent, diffuse, and correlated electric generating resources are not viable. Given that there is no commercially available DEFR technology…
If our politicians, judges and regulators cannot end their obsession with climate change nightmares, renewable energy fantasies and other nitpicking topics – and our nation is plunged into widespread, prolonged and deadly blackouts – “accountability” must come in much stronger forms than merely voting them out of office. Prosecution for gross malfeasance and dereliction in office will also be in…
We need a permitting framework that is rigorous but workable, environmentally responsible, and decisive. One that allows critical infrastructure to be evaluated thoroughly and then, once approved, actually built and put into service. And we need this framework today.
He said: ‘The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support’