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In an age of unending propaganda and spin, there are still rare times when undeniable evidence leaves no room for argument. Such is the case with the emerging artificial intelligence data centers and the energy needed to...

New York will soon force developers to build new buildings that can only use electricity for temperature control and appliances, which will further strain the state’s electric grid if it’s fully implemented, according...

Electricity costs are surging as America’s power needs climb, driven in part by the growing demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to data from the Energy Information Administration...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is warning about a serious issue that faithful readers of Climate Change Weekly have long been aware of: power outages across the nation are on the rise and are expected to get worse....

Natural gas is the key to ensuring America wins in this race. Policymakers must recognize the critical intersection of energy and AI competitiveness. Accelerating the expansion and modernization of natural gas infrastructure...

That battery backup cannot make wind and solar powered grids possible is obvious given these incredible numbers. The electric power industry must know this, but their silence is deafening.

Blackouts during heat waves are dangerous, but blaming such failures on climate change instead of on poorly managed energy policies and fragile grids dominated by weather-dependent renewables is a complete abdication of responsibility.

“We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. The folks at the agency are professionals, they’re great to work with and they are committed to carrying out the mission of the agency and setting out on a path to achieve the ambitious...

The Columbia River Basin remains a vital artery for America’s energy and agricultural future. To gamble that away on the basis of activist pressure and incomplete science would be not just foolish, but dangerous. For once,...

Layman’s guide to system inertia from Kathryn Porter

Ultimately the problem is that New York has no comprehensive energy plan.  The Climate Act Scoping Plan is just a list of technologies that describe an electric system that is zero-emissions.  However, there is no feasibility...

Subsidizing new industry may be a social good, but it’s critical to recognize that market choice didn’t reduce overall costs—it only changed who benefited, reshaping how the pie was divided...

The problem that we had in Britain on the 8th of January was we nearly just ran out of electricity. We didn’t have enough available generation to meet demand. So, fundamentally, those are the two ways that you can have...

We need to be honest with ourselves... wind and solar alone can’t provide energy security. Not today. Maybe not ever without massive redesigns. We have leaned too hard on brittle inverter-based systems and we’ve treated...

Now, in the aftermath of this blackout that could have been much worse, Spain has significantly increased its reliance on natural gas-fired power plants to stabilize its electricity grid...