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- States that have adopted “clean-energy” mandates are accustomed to having ratepayers in other states help them pick up the tab for their headlong march to a green utopia...
- For Gen Z, Why Nuclear Energy Future Is a Unifying Force in a Divided World Thu, 11 Dec 25, 1:00pmJust over a year ago, the headlines were everywhere: Three Mile Island Unit 1 was coming back online as the Crane Clean Energy Center. A site that once defined an entire industry’s future has done it again, this time as...
- Big Tech May Soon Have Monopoly On Power As America Faces Energy Crisis Mon, 8 Dec 25, 1:00amAs Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust issues as a handful...
- Rising Electricity Prices: The Missing Link Sun, 23 Nov 25, 9:00amAs electricity costs take larger bites out of people’s wallets, policymakers must confront the physical and economic limitations of a “green” electric grid...
- Amping Up Datacenter Demagoguery re: Rising Electricity Costs Wed, 19 Nov 25, 5:00amJust as communities can decide whether they want datacenters, so too can the companies investing in datacenters determine where they want to locate. Many cities and states are courting companies investing in datacenters....
- California Data Centers Lie Dormant As American Power Supply Shot To Hell Thu, 13 Nov 25, 1:00pmRepublican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who led the letter, wrote that “as a result of big tech’s misleading energy use claims, coal and natural gas plants are being shut down, putting communities across...
- Trump Admin Looking To Restore Coal Plants As America’s Grid Buckles Tue, 4 Nov 25, 1:00amThe DOE has issued several emergency orders to keep coal plants humming as it has also sounded alarms over America’s grid. DOE’s July grid reliability report projected that blackouts could increase by a factor of...
- DOE Grid Policy & Data Centers: New Thinking Ahead? Fri, 31 Oct 25, 12:00am“Ideas have consequences. Even new pathbreaking ones that are shaking the foundations of the Federal Power Act of 1938 and state public utility regulation.”
- Deadly Grid Battery Fallacy Exposed in Massachusetts Mon, 13 Oct 25, 12:00amClear rules for safe design of grid battery facilities are desperately needed if deadly catastrophe is to be avoided. Belsito has made this urgent need clear for Massachusetts. The other States and the Federal Government...
- Buy Electrons Before Bytes: A Practical Plan to Power the AI Boom Wed, 8 Oct 25, 8:00pmThe AI surge is exposing an old truth: electricity is the master resource. Data‑center power demand is projected to more than double globally by 2030. In the United States, the interconnection queue is now so large that...
- The Integrated Resource Plan Sat, 23 Aug 25, 11:00amI have cited a few examples to show that IRPs also commonly have typos, errors, misstatements, apparent failures of logic and conformance with data, a stubbornness of the utility to confront the reality of non-dispatchable...
- The Battery Storage Delusion.. what 35 million tons of industrial effort buys you Thu, 21 Aug 25, 11:00amWhen viewed this way, power systems that required utility-scale batteries have one of the lowest Energy Return on Investment (EROI) ratios in the energy world...
- Green Energy Wall Coming Into Focus In New York? Tue, 19 Aug 25, 3:00amIt was back in 2021 that I started to ask which country or U.S. state would be the first to hit the “Green Energy Wall.” It has long been obvious to anyone who looks at the situation that the fantasy of a fully de-carbonized...
- FERC Must Seize the Supreme Court’s Energy Opportunity Fri, 15 Aug 25, 11:00amThe Court has provided the legal framework. FERC must provide the will to use it.
- New York’s Official Energy Plan Is No Plan Fri, 15 Aug 25, 7:00amUntil new, non-emitting alternatives like hydrogen or advanced nuclear generation are developed and commercialized, fossil resources are needed to fill an essential role in preserving reliable grid operations.
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