Aging infrastructure, distributed generation, storage and new consumer technologies are precipitating reconfiguration of the power sector.
Britain has been a global leader in reducing emissions, but little progress has been made on heat, which accounts for almost one-third of UK emissions and the largest single share is domestic heat, which is responsible for 17% of the national total.
This research provides new techno-economic insights into integrating flexible combined-cycle gas turbines with post-combustion carbon capture and storage for low-carbon power systems.
This summer’s wildfires on Maui are the largest environmental disaster in Hawaiian history. One of them, the deadliest[1] wildfire in the United States since 1918, caused near-total destruction...
Last week, the authors discussed the significance of new rules[1] from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to address the crunch of new generators, primarily renewables, looking to...
On July 28, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a 1,500-page rule on a seemingly obscure topic: how to improve the process for plugging new power...
The electricity supply system in the United States is in the midst of a rapid transition, increasingly adopting cheap wind and solar and shifting from coal to low-cost...
On June 1, 2023, Dr. Melissa Lott, Director of Research and Senior Research Scholar, testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on electric reliability in the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released United States power sector data, the Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), which includes demographic data within three miles of...