posts tagged as Grid reliability
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November 2021
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico, shredding the territory’s electricity grid and knocking out power for almost all the...
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November 2021
California has been shuttering its coal, nuclear, and natural gas plants and building solar and wind farms to meet electricity demand and...
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October 2021
If gasoline prices are hurting American pocketbooks, home heating prices will cause similar concerns for households this winter. Energy prices are going...
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October 2021
California’s grid is vulnerable, and high temperatures this past summer have clearly demonstrated its weaknesses. Between brownouts and calls on citizens to voluntarily...
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September 2021
In 2011, Germany began its “Energiewende”, energy transition, closing nuclear and coal plants and constructing wind and solar farms, while subsidizing them...
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September 2021
According to the Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study, by 2035 solar energy has the "potential to power 40 percent of the nation's...