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What may be a dream come true for central planners ought to be everybody else’s nightmare.

By Jo Nova Our cities are more fragile than we imagine During the winter storm called “Elliot” last Christmas, gas pipes came close to freezing in New York...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the push for electric vehicles is a diversion from the region's more urgent problems.

Aussie Energy & Climate Minister: "I don't see we can put all the pressure on Renewables for Stability and Reliability", blames Climate Change for Hot Summers.

Uncontrolled blackouts may be unpredictable, but they can still be planned for to some degree.

The model also finds that there would be a shortage of power for 48% of the year, and a surplus for 52%.

This move is, to all intents and purposes, rationing. And the reason is quite clear – the closure of nearly all of our coal power capacity.

...the vehement objections from environmental groups continue to cause gridlock driving the South African economy into a ditch.

By Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people are already going 10...

How low will they go? Europe has been accused receiving stolen shipments of high quality coal from Africa, while they push Africa to embrace the useless renewables which have failed to provide Europe's energy needs.

By Jo Nova The biggest blackout has hit South Australia since the statewide crash of 2016. It’s due to a weather calamity, but the renewables state is struggling to keep the frequency stable for a whole week without...

We are seeing blackouts and system problems all over the world now, unlike in the past. There is a common factor for most – high penetration of intermittent asynchronous wind and solar generation.

Just an update on South Africa: Blackouts continue, and the people are not happy: These are being describes as the worst blackouts since the ANC came into power in 1994...

Eskom’s promise to reduce coal-fired generation over the next 30 years threatens to drive South Africa’s 62 million people further into an abyss of rolling blackouts and attendant economic damage.

But when we located the transcript of Biden’s conversation with utility executives on Feb. 9, we found no reference to $500 in utility savings. The figure was also not mentioned in the White House readout of the meeting.