Commentary

ERCOT
StakeholderForum: The Unseen Costs of Subsidized Solar
Energy industry insider Doug Sheridan says subsidized solar may look economically attractive today, but its distortive impacts on energy markets tell a different story.
IESO
Around the Corner: Nobody Does Capacity Quite Like Ontario
The move was a big step for IESO, and one of the biggest tweaks to its market design in years.
CAISO
CPUC, Others Question Details of EDAM Congestion Revenue Proposal
Stakeholders and state energy officials continue to raise concerns about a draft proposal that would adjust how congestion revenues are allocated in CAISO's EDAM, with the ISO aiming for a vote on the final plan in the coming weeks.
Aurora Energy Research
Around the Corner: The Promise, Uncertainty and Unparalleled Risk of Data Center Load
Columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler writes about the explosion of data center load requests and the enormous risks to utilities and ratepayers of overbuilding assets.
© RTO Insider
Counterflow: Groove on the Rubble
Columnist Steve Huntoon discusses the "apparently unintended irony" in the Trump administration's latest executive order on FERC.
Claus Ableiter, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stakeholder Forum: Preparing for NERC Registration and Compliance with New IBR Rules
Consultant Terry Brinker warns about potentially hundreds of facilities being included in NERC's IBR rules, where fines and penalties can be as high as $1 million a day per violation.
David Keith's Research Group
Counterflow: A Climate ‘Game of Chicken’
Columnist Steve Huntoon says environmentalists are engaging in a "game of chicken" with climate because they won't consider solar geoengineering, such as sand or salt in the stratosphere.
EIA
Counterflow: Grid Apocalypse Not
"Chicken Little" claims about power outages being caused by the transmission grid being overtaxed do not stand up to scrutiny, says columnist Steve Huntoon.
Shutterstock
Stakeholder Forum: AI, Electric Grid Can be Partners in Equitable Energy Transformation
If data centers are connected to the grid they should contribute to the cost of the network infrastructure providing those services, Exelon Executive Colette Honorable said.
DOE
Counterflow: Hydrogen Flub

Consultant Steve Huntoon criticizes the DOE's "hydrogen hubs," arguing they have numerous problems and will not actually help fight global warming.


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