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Bottom line – we can set goals, but they must be tethered to operational reality to ensure success and reliability are both achieved.

There are no easy answers to PJM’s capacity crisis. The auction results are so jarring that a good Marxist would celebrate the result as “heightening the contradictions” so that a revolution can come along.

In reality, baseload, dispatchable power—namely coal, nuclear and large gas-fired plants—will remain the backbone of America’s energy supply for the foreseeable future.

The electricity grid operators have now issued an explosive blackout warning about solar power!

Such technologies do not exist yet on a commercial scale.

...not only will electricity prices continue to increase but the ability to meet consumers’ increased demand will become more problematic.

Of interest to BOE Report readers, do note that natural gas is the only solution in the next 5-10 years to handle this crunch.

It’s time for a candid conversation about the state’s energy policies—one that acknowledges the true costs and challenges of a blindly pro-renewables approach and seeks solutions that ensure the resilience of the grid...

With its grid overwhelmed by renewable energy, Texas is putting natural gas back in the game. The

In brief, the June 2024 heatwave came nowhere near the potential deficit criteria. 

...nobody has the answer to how to keep the lights on after the natural gas plants are closed.

Con Ed, if you don’t have the courage to say the obvious truth here, you deserve whatever is coming to you.

The bigger picture problem is the potential threat that political and activist pressure will force premature retirement of peaking power plants with a marked increase in potential reliability risks. 

The finalized Clean Power Plan 2.0 rule is a bad deal for American energy producers and consumers. Congress should immediately pull the plug on this rule.

My impression of the speakers at this meeting is that they were desperately trying to make the point that the transmission challenges for the Climate Act mandates and schedule were impossible goals without actually saying...