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Spain went from trouble to darkness in 27 seconds. The judgement that mattered had been made months before.

A power cut lasting an hour or two is an inconvenience, but a blackout lasting a week or more in the middle of winter would be something quite different...

NESO issued yet another Electricity Margin Notice for yesterday evening’s peak period, with low winds and solar power dropping away:

It is past-due time to make upgrading America’s grid a national priority. Preparing for the inevitable CME should be a foundational pillar of that effort. Even so, implementing CME mitigations on existing grid structures...

America is not short of energy. We are short of permission. Until that changes, it won't matter much who wins in November. Scarcity wins every time.

America cannot afford unaffordable electricity, and the price of a megawatt should not rise simply because old rules reject new power.

There are no easy solutions, much though Greg Jackson is desperate to find one to accommodate his Net Zero fantasies. The cost will run into hundreds of billions, which the country quite simply has not got.

“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance.

“Competition on its worst day is better than regulation on its best day.”

The looming problems with reliability are not just a matter of acquiring new resources too slowly, as the NERC report implies, but also a more daunting problem with procuring new resources that are difficult to quantify and...

The United States is running short on the equipment that keeps its lights on. The components supporting our grid are difficult to procure, increasingly costly, and, for certain equipment, largely imported. That strain will...

But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.

A truly independent grid operator would surely be ringing the alarm bells now over the looming catastrophe facing us.

The fact that EV power usage is invisible could be hiding problems that are serious and rapidly growing. We really need to understand what is going on.

Our power grids are built around alternating current, that is current that varies in a regular sine wave pattern over time . . . . Voltage also varies in the same way. This electricity is generated utilising some fundamental...