October 5, 2024

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.
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.
Soapbox: Large Buyers – Don’t Stop Our Renewable Purchases
Representatives of the Advanced Energy Buyers Group argue that PJM's capacity market revisions threaten companies' bilateral renewable energy contracts.
Energy Innovation Policy & Technology
Soapbox: PJM Doubling Down on the Wrong Capacity Solution
Eric Gimon, senior fellow with Energy Innovation Policy & Technology, argues against PJM's extended Resource Carve-Out capacity market proposal.
Kavanaugh on FERC: Keg Half Full
Columnist Steve Huntoon dispels the notion that recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is against independent agencies such as FERC.
© RTO Insider
The Slow Death of Merchant Generation in MISO
Mark J. Volpe, president and CEO of the Coalition of Midwest Power Producers (COMPP), recounts the migration of merchant generators from MISO to PJM.
BithEnergy
Offshore Wind is a Good Value for the East Coast
Liz Burdock, executive director of the Business Network for Offshore Wind, rebuts Steve Huntoon's argument that offshore wind is not worth the money.
Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis
Counterflow
Huntoon argues that offshore wind is in reality anti-wind because it is cost ineffective. One of his source's is Lazard's Levelized Cost of Energy.
Stakeholder Soapbox: Rewiring Grid Modernization
Maggie Alexander of Smart Wires examines regulatory frameworks in the U.K. and Australia that she says incentivize innovation for electric utilities.
ICF, Nuclear Energy Institute
Counterflow: Pigs are not Flying
Steve Huntoon criticizes a recent study by ICF that used scenarios provided by the Nuclear Energy Institute

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