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Reality Check: How to Grow the Grid, but Not Electricity Costs
As US utilities unleash a wave of spending on new power plants and grid enhancements, past eras of grid growth offer a proven path to streamline today’s upgrades — and deliver more power, more affordably.
Reality Check: Dispatchability and Reliability Are Not the Same Thing
Focusing on how resources on the grid work together — instead of focusing on the characteristics of any individual resource — can unlock the most effective and affordable solutions to ensure reliable electric power.
Reality Check: Generator-Centric Disaster Response Is Out of Gas
By deploying solar + storage microgrids in our communities before hurricanes strike, they will save customers money in the long run, provide valuable electric grid services that will decrease carbon emissions overall, and already be in place when they are needed in times of crisis.
Reality Check: US Natural Gas Is Not a “Cleaner” Alternative Fuel
The recent White House decision to pause US liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits in order to conduct an update of “the underlying analyses…
Reality Check: Keeping the Lights on in Extreme Winter Weather
Grid outages in extreme weather are a fossil fuel problem, not a renewable energy problem.
