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On May 13, 2025, Save Long Beach Island, Inc., joined by Save the East Coast, Protect Our Coast Long Island-New York, and the Miss Belmar whale watching company, filed a federal lawsuit in the District of New Jersey challenging...

Sounds like Texas is getting fed up with its electricity system being increasingly put at risk by wind and solar power. After years of papering over the cracks with half hearted proposals, it appears that the State Legislature...

“Could the reliability of the Iberian Peninsula grid be ensured by introducing new technical solutions? Technically, yes—but economically, the feasibility is more challenging.” ( – J.K. Nøland, below)

"... productivity ... has deluded far too many of the economics profession’s conventional thinkers."

The French are finding out that combining nuclear power with unstable wind and sun is not a good idea and is a risk to the power grid. Spain recently had to learn a similar lesson in a most painful manner.

If we cannot rely upon either the capacity being delivered nor the price being honoured then the whole Allocation Round process has become a farce. It is time for Miliband to declare that his Clean Power 2030 plan is dead....

About 15 years ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the Golden Eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality...

Nations cannot afford to fall into the renewable energy trap by embracing these technologies without considering the full spectrum of their impacts. Germany’s experience with its Energiewende shows that pushing too hard...

It has long been predicted that replacing conventional synchronous generators, which rotate together with the grid, with asynchronous inverter-based resources like wind, solar, and batteries will increase the risk of blackouts...

Connecticut Democratic lawmakers are proposing that taxpayers foot the bill for high utility costs in the state, which policy experts who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation largely attributed to state-funded renewable...

The US Energy Department recently suspended a large grant at the University of Maine for research on floating wind technology. The full significance of this suspension will not be known until it plays out, but it is useful...

As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know. But I do know that the electricity system in...

Investigations into the cause of the power outage are continuing. However, a great deal of focus is turning to a pair of solar power plants that appeared to have issues that caused instability in the grid, ultimately costing...

Except when struck by hail, hurricanes, floods or ordinary wear and tear.

Compensatory mitigation looks like a legal loophole designed to help the wind power industry avoid the Eagle Protection Act. The wind power facilities are just buying the indulgence of killing eagles year after year, more...