October 4, 2024

Special Reports & Commentary

Counterflow: Electric Cars – Once More With Feeling
Columnist Steve Huntoon reiterates his argument that EVs are uneconomic relative to gasoline cars and rebuts a recent Wall Street Journal column.
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Mass. Looks to Double Down on OSW, Clean Goals
Massachusetts is seeking to broaden its ambitious goals for procuring offshore wind and other clean energy, Department of Energy Resources officials said.
Counterflow: Reliability Costs, Fox-Henhouse Regulation
Steve Huntoon, our Counteflow columnist, looks back at 4 years of his "scribblings" to see what he got right, what he got wrong, and what’s happened since.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE Pulls off Fuel Security, CASPR Measures
Despite a few bumps, scrapes and scares throughout the year, ISO-NE delivered on time by dispatching key market initiatives.
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MISO to Address Growing Supply Shortage in New Year
MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.
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ERCOT Faces Tight Summer Margins, Market Changes
ERCOT is preparing to take on the Texas heat again in 2019 with reserve margins that have shrunk even further than last summer's.
Cal Fire
Trump Administration Fiddled While California Burned
2018 brought chilling warnings about the growing dangers of climate change, but President Trump continued to question the reality of a warming planet.
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PJM Ponders New Capacity Rules — Again — in 2019
In many ways, PJM's 2018 was much like years before, with capacity and energy market rules under constant redesign. Some stakeholders have grown weary of the churn.
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SPP Still Looking West — and Inward
SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.
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Ailing Chair, Resilience Inquiry Topped FERC News in 2018
FERC begins 2019 with a new chairman and renewed questions about whether it will resist President Trump's efforts to deliver on his pledges to coal.

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