Energy
Duke’s Worrisome Text
Late afternoon on Thursday, January 4, customers of Duke Energy received a text message alerting them to expected high energy demand the next day and requesting they “take steps to…
Rolling blackout
Liberty
Texas Warns of Winter Rolling Blackouts
Vivek Saxena writes for BizPac Review about a warning involving Texas’ upcoming winter season. The organization that operates Texas’ electric grid has warned of potential forced power outages this year…
Energy
The Initial Carbon Plan: What Are Its Mandates, and Do They Align with State Law?
Note: This post is a compilation of the five-part series of research briefs on the initial Carbon Plan. They discussed the plan’s mandates for nuclear power and coal (Part 1),…
Research Brief
Energy
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 1
By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the…
Research Brief
Energy
Power Generation During Blackouts Shows the Importance of Nuclear
Hourly grid data during the Christmas Eve blackouts showed wobbles in increased coal and natural gas generation, where three plants experienced equipment failures that kept those generation sources from contributing…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New-Normaling: How They Try to Get You to Accept Bad Policy Outcomes
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
Energy
FLASHBACK: Cooper Is Steering North Carolina Towards Electricity Blackouts
For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind —…
Research Brief
Energy
Mere Minutes: What ‘China Carbon Time’ Means for North Carolinians
In the name of “fighting climate change,” forcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s reductions in North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions would cost $141.7 billion to $162.3 billion, raise household electricity bills by well…
Energy
Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 4
Portfolio 4, like the other three portfolios, would rely heavily on new solar, but it ties with Portfolio 3 for the largest proposed addition of new nuclear capacity. It would add much…
Energy
Estimated Impacts to Electricity Costs and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 1
This post discusses Portfolio 1 of the four Duke portfolios. It evaluates it according to standards required by law of the UC.
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper is Steering North Carolina Towards Electricity Blackouts
North Carolinians should know that many of the energy policies Gov. Roy Cooper has advocated for here in North Carolina follow the mistakes identified as the cause of California's blackouts.…