December 29, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Terry L. Headley ~ The latest PJM capacity auction cleared at the maximum allowed price—$333 per megawatt-day—and still came up short. Even at the price cap, the market could not buy enough power to meet PJM’s own reliability standard.Capacity auctions exist for one reason: to make sure the lights stay on when the system […]
December 6, 2025 by TonyfromOz
By Anton Lang ~ Before leaving on my road trip, I wondered about the possibility of visiting the Millmerran power plant. The route I planned was one I had travelled before, albeit between 35 and 40 years ago, and the reason I took this route was that it was along a highway that did not go […]
December 6, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Steve Goreham ~ California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (ACF) went into effect in 2024. The regulation intended to force all trucks operating in California to be zero emissions. But electric trucks cost 2─3 times as much as diesel trucks, and because of heavier weight, carry less freight.Diesels can travel about 1200 miles after filling the tank […]
October 10, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Kevin Mooney ~ For a good laugh, turn to page 42 of the report President Donald Trump’s Energy Department released in July. On this page, the huge gulf between climate modeling and observed warming comes into sharp focus. The report includes a chart of all 36 climate models, as well as the warming that […]
September 22, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
From the team at CFACT ~ By Christian Bonilla ~ Artificial intelligence is booming — and America’s power grid is struggling to keep up.At the World Economic Forum, President Trump recently warned that “We need double the energy we currently have in the United States for AI to be as big as we want to […]
September 3, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Ronald Stein ~ Natural gas and crude oil are commonly needed fossil fuels to manufacture insulation, wires, and computers used in all methods of generating electricity. This is because components of natural gas and oil are essential feedstocks for creating plastics, which are used for insulation and many computer parts. Fossil fuels are also required […]
August 31, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ In proposing to rescind the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin seeks to do nothing less than demolish the shaky legal foundation on which over 15 years of society-altering climate regulations were built. Fittingly, Zeldin chose a truck dealership in the Midwest (Indianapolis) to challenge the Obama EPA’s 2009 […]
August 28, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ Most U.S. nuclear power plants are fueled by uranium oxide (urania), which has a sufficiently high fissile density, exhibited good stability, and effectively retained fission products. Urania is also highly resistant to radiation damage, though it does suffer from being harder to extract energy because of its relatively poor thermal conductivity.While uranium is […]
August 14, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Craig Rucker ~ As Americans enjoy their freedom — as they have a God-given right to do — they drive where they want in privately owned cars (gas-powered, hybrid, or electric), live comfortably in heated-and-air-conditioned homes, spend their evenings cooking dinner on gas (or electric stoves), and watch whatever television program or sporting event […]
August 12, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Westerners are independent people. This independence is even reflected in the West’s electric power grid. There are two major American grids, called respectively the Eastern and Western Interconnections. The north-south dividing line is roughly just east of Colorado. Texas, which never got over being a separate country for nine years, has its own […]
August 6, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Fred Lucas ~ By the end of July, the Energy Department accrued more than $950 million in contract savings with assistance from the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency. In some cases, the terminated contracts were tied to regulations. In other cases, the contracts were about “environmental justice” or related to energy “justice.” One […]
August 3, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ As the news gets around that two Chinese companies have developed commercially viable miniature nuclear-powered batteries with potential to operate for up to a century to power everything from pacemakers to remote sensors to multiple uses in outer space, other companies from China to the U.S. to Vietnam are taking a long look […]
August 2, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Craig Rucker ~ July 4 wasn’t just America’s 249th birthday. It also marked another triumph for President Trump, who inscribed his giant signature on the tax and spending legislation he had vigorously championed.The vote was razor-thin, and not a single House or Senate Democrat voted Yea. Many of the Nay votes reflected false claims […]
July 30, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Steve Goreham ~ A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) investments now drives the United States electricity market. New data centers and upgrades to existing data centers are creating a vast demand for power. However, major AI firms are opting for natural gas plants to provide electrical power, rather than renewable energy.Since ChatGPT released their conversational AI […]
July 26, 2025 by PA Pundits - International
By Ronald Stein ~ For South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, where electricity deficits stifle growth, small modular reactors (SMRs) offer a promising solution.With the Trump administration poised to reshape global electricity policy, the U.S. has a unique opportunity to lead the West in supporting Africa’s electricity-driven progress through SMRs. The Trump administration should lead Western […]
January 2, 2026 by PA Pundits - International
0