Renewable generation from wind and solar power has increased substantially in recent years, and the pace may well accelerate under the Biden administration’s goal of decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2035.  At the same time, February’s extreme winter storm that strained the power system in the country’s central...

We wrote a blog several months ago that included information on coal-fired power plants in China, as well as coal-fired power plants that China was helping to finance in other countries.  One of the takeaways was that China’s coal fleet ― already as large as the coal fleets...

In February, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a big step backward by closing a docket the Commission had opened three years ago to consider whether the nation’s electricity system is resilient. Resilience means keeping the lights on during extreme disturbances, such as the winter storm that...

Recently, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) issued a 217-page report ― MISO’s Renewable Integration Impact Study (RIIA) ― about the challenges and risks to the electricity system in the grid operator’s 15-state region[i] (blue in the map) as more wind and solar...