Coal-fired and other thermal power plants provide important reliability attributes.  However, half the existing coal fleet (more than 93,000 MW) has announced plans to retire

A report co-authored by the Sierra Club and featured in the Washington Post’s “Utility climate pledges amount to ‘greenwashing,’ report says” criticizes electric utilities for, in

We are seeing a growing number of news articles forecasting rising electricity bills, among them the Wall Street Journal’s “Electric Bills Soar Across the Country

Public Utilities Fortnightly sat down with Jim Robb, CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), at the recent NARUC Summer Policy Summit to

The Inflation Reduction Act is now law.  A lot of the enthusiasm about its enactment has to do with the $369 billion that will be

Most people don’t realize that almost half – some 93,000 megawatts (MW) – or more of the nation’s remaining coal fleet is scheduled to retire by 2030, unless steps are taken to limit coal retirements.

The Wall Street Journal article, “Heat Wave Sends Natural-Gas Prices Soaring” (July 21, 2022) looked primarily at pricing volatility, but alluded to a much larger

A Wall Street Journal article, “Red-Hot Coal Prices Threaten More Increases in Power Bills” focused on higher spot market prices for coal, suggesting that coal

Electric reliability means being able to keep the lights on 24/7 and the air conditioner running.  However, two-thirds of the country faces the prospect of

There is already a lot of information about MISO’s 10th Annual Planning Resource Auction (PRA) for 2022-2023, but we wanted to briefly offer our perspective on the auction and its aftermath and to highlight a serious issue that is not receiving the attention it deserves, the retirement of coal-fired generation.