The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will finalize a sweeping new regulation, the Clean Power Plan (CPP), to fight climate change–yet, the EPA admits the CPP will have no measurable impact on global temperatures. The main effect on major regions across the country will be either steeply rising electricity rates or potentially catastrophic shortages of electricity.
Fool Me Twice: Why the Texas Grid is Still Vulnerable to Winter Storms | Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem
Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem Five years after Winter Storm Uri, the ERCOT grid is still not ready for the next major winter storm. The first two installments of this series showed that demand has grown more than 20% since 2021 while firm generation capacity has barely budged, and the...