grid reliability

14Oct

The World Needs More Coal and America Can Deliver

India was already planning a major expansion of its coal fleet. Now those already ambitious plans are getting an upward revision. Electricity demand in India is growing so quickly that even a massive buildout of renewable energy isn’t keeping pace with the urgent need for reliable, affordable supply. It’s a story with global significance and […]
29Sep

An International Reliability and Affordability Backstop

There’s a very good reason global coal demand is on track to set another record this year: when affordability and energy security matter most, the world leans on coal. That’s playing out right now in both India and thousands of miles away in Europe. In India, every coal plant in the country is now running […]
18Aug

Hidden in Plain Sight: Existing Coal Plants offer the Generation that Today Demands

Thanks to this new age of electricity demand and power-hungry data centers, the U.S. currently has record amounts of electricity generation in development. But that build out is getting both harder and more expensive, in the face of demand that waits for no one. What’s the holdup? Baseload power projects requiring natural gas turbines are […]
24Jun

Germany’s Coal Phase-Out Meets Energy Reality

Germany’s coal phase-out, or kohleausstieg, is colliding with energy reality. This August, the German government is expected to publish a review of the coal phase-out, including its impact on energy supply, security and prices. Once envisioned as a report that could justify accelerating the coal exit, Germany’s current energy situation may instead make the case […]
17Jun

Global Coal Investment is Rising and a New Energy Security Playbook is Emerging

Has the Iran energy crisis driven new demand for coal? Certainly. But as the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals in a new report on global energy investment, coal was already very much in demand. The war with Iran and its energy disruptions have only supercharged it. According to the IEA, investments in coal have reached […]
03Jun

Surging AI Power Demand is Here, Like It or Not

Artificial intelligence promises economy-wide transformation and a pace of innovation we may have never seen before. But the impact of AI on the electricity grid and the public’s concern over data center development and rising power prices are rapidly becoming significant barriers to the AI revolution. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity consumption […]
18Feb

Coal Answers the Natural Gas Bottleneck

American manufacturers are facing an energy crisis. Despite the U.S. being the world’s largest natural gas producer, manufacturers are increasingly being cutoff from natural gas supplies during periods of peak winter and summer demand. The critical challenge is a lack of pipeline capacity to meet the competing needs of power generation, heating and manufacturing. And […]
11Feb

Coal Power Saved Americans $30-40 Billion in 2025

Coal has been the nation’s grid reliability MVP this winter. It was also consumers’ affordability MVP in 2025. A new report by Energy Ventures Analysis (EVA) finds that last year coal generation served as an important buffer against energy inflation delivering $30 to $40 billion in total savings, lowering Americans’ power bills an average of $100 to $150 […]
04Feb

Reinforcing Winter Grid Reliability

The weather predicting skills of a certain groundhog remain up for debate, but Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this week and, sure enough, the brutal cold is sticking around.   Eastern states are likely to face frigid temperatures for much of February as the polar vortex pushes arctic air south. The forecasters at AccuWeather say to […]
26Jan

Thank Heaven for Coal and Sound Energy Policy

The Wall Street Journal hit the nail on the head this weekend in an editorial titled “Thank Heaven for Coal Power in the Cold.” Winter storm Fern has wreaked havoc across a 2,000-mile stretch of the country leaving hundreds of thousands without power. If not for coal generation, it would be millions more. Electricity grids […]