September 14, 2023 Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric Elliott Negin Senior Writer
John Ciccarelli/BLM September 13, 2023 Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How. Paul Arbaje Energy Analyst
Alex Levine/Flickr September 7, 2023 How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat? Guest Commentary
Mark Graham/Unsplash August 23, 2023 How Reliable Are Gas Power Plants? What ICAP, UCAP, and ELCC Tell Us. Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
UCS August 22, 2023 Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable John Rogers Energy Campaign Analytic Lead
American Public Power Association/Unsplash August 17, 2023 Too Many Gas Power Plants Are the Problem, Not the Solution Vivian Yang Western States Energy Analyst
U.S. Department of Energy/Flickr August 16, 2023 EVs Can Support Power Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs. Here’s How. Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Oxana Melis/Unsplash August 16, 2023 California Has a Chance to Ensure EVs Get Even Better With Bidirectional Charging Samantha Houston Senior Vehicles Analyst
Pedro Castellano June 12, 2023 Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability? Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
European Space Agency April 19, 2023 Western Grid Regionalization Is Back on the Drawing Board. Why Now? Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Harald Richter/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) April 12, 2023 Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid Paul Arbaje Energy Analyst
Marii Sha/Unsplash January 24, 2023 Storm Elliott Knocked Out Fossil-Fuel Power. We’ve Been Here Before. Paul Arbaje Energy Analyst
Cinzy Hidden/Flickr January 4, 2023 What Does Western Grid Regionalization Mean for California? Vivian Yang Western States Energy Analyst
Jeremy Bezanger/Unsplash September 21, 2022 Changes to California’s Resource Adequacy Program Will Have Huge Consequences for the Power Grid Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
GPA Photo Archive/Flickr September 12, 2022 Can the Electric Grid Handle EV Charging? Samantha Houston Senior Vehicles Analyst
Mathias Appel/Flickr September 7, 2022 Failure to Plan Could Create an Energy Crisis Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
Western Area Power/Flickr August 31, 2022 September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid. Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
NREL May 18, 2022 Why We Can Send A Rover To Mars, But We Can’t Send An Electron From New York to California Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
Markus Spiske/Unsplash April 25, 2022 Grid Modeling Overview: Four Types of Models Guiding the Transition to Clean Electricity Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Paxson Woelber/Flickr January 24, 2022 Odds are Power Plants Near You are Holding Back on Cold Days Mike Jacobs Senior Energy Analyst
Moritz Knoringer/Unsplash December 14, 2021 California Energy: A 2021 Review and a Look Ahead Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Mark Specht August 12, 2021 I Toured “the Best Damn Plant in the Fleet.” Two Years Later It Exploded. Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Kevin Dooley/Flickr June 24, 2021 California Takes Big Step Towards Clean Electricity, But Not Without Stumbling Mark Specht Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst
Matthew Henry/Unsplash June 15, 2021 Why Should We Care About MISO’s Long Range Transmission Planning? James Gignac Midwest Senior Policy Manager