California legislators are poised to vote this week on a pair of bills that would help renters and low-income communities go solar. But the bills have encountered stiff resistance from some utility companies, which call them unnecessary and expensive. Continue reading
Category Archives: grid reliability
Solar legislation opposed by utilities
Posted in Baseload Energy, Clean energy, Economics, grid reliability
In Uruguay, the Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
If that’s the answer what the heck was the question? Continue reading
No simple fix for power outages as state tackles grid reliability
Group begins to explore burying of power lines, other issues Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Energy Revolution Hiccups: Grid Instability Has Industry Scrambling for Solutions
Sudden fluctuations in Germany’s power grid are causing major damage to a number of industrial companies. While many of them have responded by getting their own power generators and regulators to help minimize the risks, they warn that companies might be forced to leave if the government doesn’t deal with the issues fast. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Clean energy, grid reliability
Tagged really stupid idea, solar power, Wind power
Ken Malloy: Electricity Policy Prime Time
Last Saturday, I spoke at the American for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Washington, D.C. I was one of three presenters on energy and energy/environmental issues. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Economics, grid reliability
GWPF Warning: Wind Energy Is Extraordinarily Expensive And Inefficient
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has warned policy makers that wind energy is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions. In fact, there is a significant likelihood that annual CO2 emissions could be greater under the Government’s current wind strategy than under an alternative Gas scenario. Continue reading
India: The Dark Reality
In the centre of Delhi, one of the world’s biggest, dirtiest, noisiest cities, is an island of calm. Here, government ministers live in vast, state-owned villas; judges, generals and senior bureaucrats walk their dogs across well-watered lawns as servants scrub their government cars; top politicians confer in compounds and the wives of unimaginably wealthy industrialists hold lunch parties catered by top chefs. You live here and visit India. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Bryan Walsh: The Power Grid: From Rickety to Resilient
August 14, 2003 was a brutally hot day in much of the northeastern U.S. The high temperatures prompted people in cities like Pittsburgh and New York to crank up the fans and the air conditioning. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Solar superstorm could knock out US power grid – experts
U.S. weather has been lousy this year, with droughts, heat and killer storms. But a solar superstorm could be far worse. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Aging power grid on overload as U.S. demands more electricity
They began to bend in the roaring wind, then their steel girders snapped like twigs, the towers toppled and the lights went out. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Nuclear Energy Critic Loses Japan Election
A candidate who pushed an antinuclear agenda lost a closely watched race for governor in western Japan on Sunday, underscoring the challenges opponents of nuclear energy face in translating recent mass protests into votes. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability, Nuclear power, Radiation
Tagged irrational fears
India blackout leaves 300 million without power
Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia’s third-largest economy. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Development, grid reliability
James Burgess: The Problem with Burying Power Lines
Severe storms can often knock out power lines, leaving millions without electricity for anywhere between a few hours, to several days or more. Burying the cables would avoid the risk of breakages during violent weather, so why don’t utility companies install all their power lines underground? Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, grid reliability
Bernard L. Weinstein: Temperatures up, lights out across America
Obama’s energy policies are stressing the electricity grid Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, EPA, grid reliability, Population
Tagged climate fraud, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, rogue agency
From Arab Spring to American Summer: The Politics of Power Outages
Amidst record-high temperatures and a very anti-climactic 4th of July, power outages have left millions without air-conditioning and even water in rural areas where households rely on electric pumps. Continue reading
Threat of summer blackouts greatest in Texas, Calif. — report
If it gets hot enough for long enough, Texas and Southern California may not have the electricity to avoid outages this summer, the overseers of the nation’s power grid warned in a forecast today. Continue reading
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