MISO Reports Growing Capacity Deficit Beginning in 2025…Need to “delay resource retirements to reliably manage the anticipated growth in electricity demand”MISO Reports Growing Capacity Deficit Beginning in 2025…Need to “delay resource retirements to reliably manage the anticipated growth in electricity demand”

“Today, MISO and the Organization of MISO States released the annual OMS-MISO survey results, which indicate a growing capacity deficit beginning in the 2025/26 planning year. Next summer, MISO could see resource sufficiency ranging from a 2.7 GW capacity shortfall to a 1.1 GW surplus, underscoring the need to accelerate resource additions, monitor large load […]

The Regional Grid Operator’s Warning To UsThe Regional Grid Operator’s Warning To Us

“The transition that is underway to get to a decarbonized end state is posing material, adverse challenges to electric reliability. A key risk is that many existing “dispatchable” resources that can be turned on and off and adjusted as needed are being replaced with weather-dependent resources such as wind and solar that have materially different […]

Federal Government Has Wanted Americans To Set Thermostats Above 78 Degrees And Eat CricketsFederal Government Has Wanted Americans To Set Thermostats Above 78 Degrees And Eat Crickets

Yes, this is what it wants, at least for the non-elite: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/health/thermostat-recommendations-energy-star-trnd/index.html . This is in addition to how it is encouraging us to eat crickets as a major part of our diet: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303143/ . The Canadian government also is promoting this: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/the-rumours-the-government-wants-you-to-eat-crickets-are-true . What a life “earth justice” types have in store for us! […]