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The Uses and Limits of Global Climate Conferences
COP-28 is now a memory, and what I often call the “Annual Climate Trade Show” has ended along with its typical manufactured controversies and silly symbolic battles. My favorite this…
Read MoreGlobal Warming Comes Home to Roost
If We Keep Electrifying, We Will Run Out of Power
If you punch in “outage map” in a search engine, you will get a series of maps, ranging from the entire country to state by state and even smaller jurisdictions.…
Read MoreNew Year Faces Old Problems: War, Immigration and Energy
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less Generation
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less GenerationBy Llewellyn King The nation’s electric utilities are facing revolutionary changes as big as any they have faced since Thomas Edison got the whole…
Read MoreSpare Us the Thoughts and Prayers — We Are Past That
By Llewellyn King America, spare me your thoughts and prayers. Get off your backsides and do something. Wringing hands over the gun lobby, lamenting the love of guns by so…
Read MoreHow the Consumer Will Become a Partner on the Electric Grid
By Llewellyn KingIf the Biden administration genuinely wanted to get serious about weaning the electric power sector from fossil fuels, it would get serious about nuclear — not just patting…
Read MoreShutting Out Natural Gas Can Destabilize the Electric Grid
By Llewellyn King It has been an annus horribilis for the nation’s electric utility companies. Deadly storms and wildfires have left hundreds of thousands — and for short periods millions…
Read MoreThe Social Scolds Are Set To Take Up Global Warming
The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gives humanity a simple directive: Get a grip on greenhouse gas emissions or the dear old planet…
Read MoreGovernment Purchasing: Sustainability’s Best-Kept Secret?
By Mary Hoff Archimedes once observed that with a long enough lever he could move the world. In the case of moving the world to a more sustainable place, government…
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