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Previous discussions focused on the implementation challenges that come after and flow from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The murky picture of a few months ago has been changing with expanded analysis of just what the Act entails and how, and how...

Decarboning electricity requires major expansion in transmission. At the same time, transmission has been saving the day when tens of GWs of conventional plants keep failing in severe weather situations by enabling delivery of neighboring regions’ surplus...

The goals for carbon emission reduction and the precipitating event of passage of the IRA lead to a focus on implementation. All elements of the electricity system and markets face new stress tests. Absent the unlikely unlimited expansion of the...

The immediate crisis in Ukraine and attendant turmoil created by all Russian connections in energy markets is compelling a rapid reassessment of the resource mix and impacts on electricity systems. While the case of Europe is the most dramatic, the crisis...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is greatly about energy and climate related investments. The main political sausage compromise of the broad policy debate is now a done deal: no carbon tax but a methane fee! Attention must shift to implementation and...

The power sector is being transformed by dramatic technological change. The demands for further innovation, emanating from the need for greater productivity internally and external public objectives, is increasing. How should the industry, policy makers...

A confluence of events presents major implications for the development of electricity system policy as part of the larger energy transition. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, Federal legislation for the economy and climate...

The level playing field metaphor has long been a mantra of electricity market reform and regulation. The goal was an efficient and reliable system that supported investment. The costly experience with failures of monopoly planning pointed to using markets...

Tail events: Prediction, Planning, and Performance Extreme weather and related fires and floods are much in the news. The electricity crisis in ERCOT in February 2021 illustrated the challenge of addressing high consequence but low probability events. The...