Electricity storage technologies have proven their worth in balancing daily fluctuations in wind and solar output. But can storage address the challenges presented by the decarbonized grid of the future?
Offshore Wind Presents Big Challenge for the Electric Grid
Large scale offshore wind development will require a rethink of how America’s electric grid is designed, and paid for.
Grid Forward Debate: Has Electricity Deregulation Let to Better Community Outcomes?
Electricity market deregulation promised to bring more affordable and reliable electricity to consumers. A quarter of a century after deregulation began, has its promise delivered for all Americans?
U.S. Electricity Regulator Takes a Hard Look at Carbon Pricing
In September the U.S. electricity regulator, the FERC, held its first conference to explore carbon pricing in the nation’s electricity markets. Is a carbon price finally on the way?
Developing the Electric Grid for Carbon-Free Energy
More states are targeting 100% clean energy, but is the electric grid ready? An expert in energy policy and economics looks at the policy challenges to creating a robust, carbon-free electricity system.
How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy
Political scientist Leah Stokes examines interest groups’ power to shape, and resist, progressive energy policy.
The War on Coal that Never Was
The results also make clear the extent to which the war on coal narrative has been in reality a politically convenient creation of a president, and Republican party, that has catered to fossil fuel interests.
The Path Forward for Grid Electricity Storage
Battery storage will play a central role in decarbonizing the nation’s electric grid, yet the rules by which batteries will compete in electricity markets have yet to be agreed upon.
Debunking the ‘War on Coal’
A variety of narratives have been put forth to explain coal’s decline. None has been more politically charged than the "war on coal."
The FERC, An Under-the-Radar Federal Regulator, Is Key To U.S. Energy-Climate Balance
The FERC is fractured, along familiar Democratic-Republican lines, over the extent to which climate concerns should factor into its review of new gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas export terminals.