Insurance (noun) – a protective measure.[i] The nation needs a fleet of coal-fired power plants fleet because the coal fleet produces affordable electricity, contributes to

Almost 40 percent of the nation’s coal fleet has retired or announced plans to retire. Unless some of these retiring coal plants are replaced with

FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee filed some interesting comments recently with EPA regarding the agency’s proposal to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.[i]  His comments made

Recently, EPA proposed new regulations — the “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule — to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired electric generating units.  The ACE rule

“FERC had put out a resilience [proposal] some time ago, but there’s been nothing since.” Andrew L Ott, President and CEO of PJM[i] The continuing retirement

Almost 40 percent of the nation’s coal fleet has retired or announced plans to retire.  Does it make sense to continue retiring even more coal-fired

It seems that most everyone would agree that fuel security reduces resilience risks.  If a power plant has fuel on site or is certain it

This is the second in a series of short papers about the debate over the retirement of coal-fired power plants, grid resilience and fuel security. 

Everyone agrees that we need an electricity grid that is not only reliable but also resilient.  PJM says that resilience “relates to preparing for, operating

Last week, media reported about a copy of a 40-page draft White House memo[i] explaining the justification for DOE to issue an order to delay