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California's Flex Alert: A Case Study in Intermittent Energy
California has long been a leader in promoting wind and other renewables to power the electricity grid. Recently, California has gone even further and in 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law to force an...
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California’s Self-Inflicted Energy Shortage
California is again having issues with adequate electricity and its customers are being told that summer blackouts may occur. Its utility scale generation is dependent primarily on natural gas and...
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Diablo Canyon Nuclear Units to Shutter: What Are the Consequences?
Pacific Gas and Electric will shutter its two Diablo Canyon nuclear units in 2024 and 2025, respectively, when their current operating licenses are set to expire or need to be renewed by the Nuclear...
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Travis Fisher, CEO of Electricity Consumers Resource Council, joins the show to discuss what is causing California’s rolling blackouts and what policies could be implemented to alleviate the stress on...
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The Aftermath of the Texas Blackouts
There has been a lot of finger-pointing in the aftermath of the February blackouts in Texas—with ire directed toward the state’s governor, the grid operator, the power generators, and the federal...
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