Coal in the News

22Aug

Don’t Overlook the Challenges of Integrating Wind and Solar Power

Via The Roanoke Times: Thanks to advances in technology, the price of generating electricity from solar and wind power has fallen significantly over the past decade. And that’s been helpful for America’s economy, including sectors like high-tech manufacturing and domestic mining that have contributed to these achievements. But even as the price of generating power […]
20Aug

Mandated Wind, Solar Power Makes Electric Bills Soar

Via The Wheeling News-Register: California continues to lead the nation in mandating the deployment of wind and solar power. Unfortunately, that translates into rising electricity costs that are now poised to climb higher. It’s a development that should concern families in every state. Since 2011, electricity prices in California have jumped 30 percent — the […]
07Aug

Rising Electricity Prices to Come as Wind, Solar Mandates Increase

Via The Arizona Capitol Times: California continues to lead the nation in mandating the deployment of wind and solar power. Unfortunately, that translates into rising electricity costs that are now poised to climb higher. It’s a development that should concern families in every state. Since 2011, electricity prices in California have jumped 30 percent – the most  […]
31Jul

Rising Electricity Prices are Coming

Via The Troy Daily News: California continues to lead the nation in mandating the deployment of wind and solar power. Unfortunately, that translates into rising electricity costs that are now poised to climb higher. It’s a development that should concern families in every state. Since 2011, electricity prices in California have jumped 30 percent — […]
29Jul

State Power Grids Feel the Strain of Summer Heat

Via The Tribune-Democrat: As the peak of summer arrives, Americans are turning up their air conditioners.  But this added demand for electricity can greatly tax power grids. And in some states, it could pose real problems.  As North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) CEO Jim Robb recently explained, backup power reserves in Texas are stretched […]
25Jul

Montana’s Energy Future Must be Guided by Facts

Via The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Montana must continue discussions about our energy future. We respect the views Mary Sedwick expressed in letters to the editor. We all need to work for cleaner energy. Here things that need to be included in a fact-based energy policy dialog. NorthWestern Energy’s Montana electric portfolio is approaching 70% carbon […]
19Jul

Renewable Energy Can’t Keep Texans’ A/C humming [Opinion]

Via The Houston Chronicle: Houston has recorded a half-dozen 95 degree-plus days so far this summer, and we’re weeks away from August, the hottest month of the year. Last year, the second hottest on record in Texas, included a 10-day stretch of triple-digit temperatures. Which raises a question. Is the Texas power grid, managed by […]
18Jul

EPA’s New ACE Rule: A Win for Common Sense

Via RealClear Energy: Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s fleet of coal-fired power plants.  The ACE rule is replacing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The new rule is legal and sensible, adjectives that do not describe the Clean Power Plan.  Many […]
18Jul

Opinion: US Power Grid Strains as Summer Peaks

Via The Southern Illinoisan: Americans remain perennially confident in the nation’s power grid. No matter the weather, or the time of day, we flip a switch and expect the lights to go on. But something troubling is emerging in parts of the country — state power grids that could actually fail this summer, during periods […]
03Jul

Affordable Clean Energy Rule Good for Consumers, Environment

Via KnoxNews.com Can you imagine paying 27 percent more for electricity? That’s exactly what would have happened to wholesale electricity prices in Tennessee if the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan had been adopted. Thankfully, reason and the law prevailed and the EPA’s replacement rule – the Affordable Clean Energy rule – was issued June 19. […]