by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How is this going to work as Gov. Newsom pushes California to an all-electricity grid? PG&E’s alert says: “A Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) occurs in response to severe weather to help prevent a wildfire. A severe [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Reservoirs were full to the top in 2019, with enough water to supply to all users for at least five years of drought, but no longer The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe As rolling blackouts become a way of life in California, how will EVs charge? With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandated phase-out of gas-powered automobiles, we learn that one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Unreliable solar and wind power, electric vehicles, and other things that just don’t make sense People are so bombarded with one narrative on “clean vehicles” and “climate change” that many are unaware that there are alternative clean [...]
by Bradley Devlin Daily Caller Conversations surrounding power outages in Texas that left four million Texans without the ability to heat their homes during an extreme winter storm quickly devolved into discussions about wind power versus fossil fuels. The biggest lesson we’ve learned about the future of energy in the United States, however, could have [...]
by B.D. Hobbs KTRH How did the energy capital of the world go days without power? It's one of the many questions ERCOT is trying to answer in the aftermath of last week's epic winter storm. But one thing we have learned for certain. Texas is giving it's power away. Under pressure from Washington, Texas [...]
On February 15, 2021, E&E Legal's Steve Milloy Milloy talks today’s windmill disaster in Texas on Power Hour with Alex Epstein. https://youtu.be/g-MuAcC7Dcc
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel For the third time in as many years, a major proposed solar plant in rural Virginia has been defeated. The “Maroon Solar” project has withdrawn its application near the small town of Culpeper, after the local planning commission unanimously declined to [...]
Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing on IER's Podcast E&E Legal's Tom Tanton, a California resident, joins the Institute for Energy Research's (IER's) podcast to discuss CA’s recent rolling blackouts and what went wrong with the state’s energy policies to get here. Listen here.
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Tone-deaf lawmakers ignore already failing electricity grid With wildfires burning 1.3 million acres throughout the state, and rolling power blackouts from the weak electrical grid, the California State Senate Appropriations Committee voted to pass Assembly Bill 326 to make driving an Electric Vehicle “more accessible for [...]
