The aging, under-sized and Balkanized U.S. high-voltage electric power grid has emerged as a significant bottleneck to greater development of necessary technology to meet the nation’s goals for greatly reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector. The problem isn’t just this nation’s inability to build new transmission lines across state boundaries, when the… More Permitting Plagues Renewable Grid Connections

In a pro forma response to a congressional order, the Biden administration has issued a lukewarm report on the possibility of using solar geoengineering – reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth – to respond to global warming. The report — Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance Framework Related to Solar… More Geoengineering: There Goes the Sun, And It’s All Right?

Former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is headed to the Big House. A federal judge June 29 sentenced Householder to 20 years in prison for his central role in a racketeering conviction involving a $1.3 billion legislative bailout (HB 6) of two FirstEnergy uneconomic nuclear power plants, which provided Householder about $60 million before… More Larry Householder’s New House