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therightinsight.org/in-Dependence-Day-2022
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7/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Energy independence has been an aspirational goal of the US for decades. However, the US actually achieved that goal in the period from 2017-2020 as the result of the application of US ingenuity and the encouragement of a supportive federal...
therightinsight.org/in-Dependence-Day-2023
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7/4/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The United States energy independence achieved in 2020 has been sacrificed on the altar of climate change, terminated with malice as part of an effort to “end fossil fuels”. This effort would ultimately make the entire US energy...
therightinsight.org/100-Ways-Biden-and-the-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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9/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/150-Ways-the-Biden-Administration-and-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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6/8/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/200-Ways-the-Biden-Administration-and-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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4/11/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/2023-Year-in-Review
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12/26/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Administration war on fossil fuels continues, with reduced lease sales, lease cancellations, new emissions rules for electric powerplants and gasoline and diesel vehicles and electric vehicle mandates.
The Administration has less than ...
therightinsight.org/2024-The-Year-Ahead
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1/2/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Altruism dies when it costs.
The promise of the transition from a fossil fuel energy economy to a renewable energy economy was and is lower energy prices and an improved environment. That promise is clearly broken irreparably. Energy ...
therightinsight.org/2024-North-American-Energy-Inventory
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6/20/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
From: IER
Date: May 14, 2024
2024 North American Energy Inventory
In 2011, IER released the first edition of the North American Energy Inventory. At the time, the U.S. energy situation looked far different than it does today. ...
therightinsight.org/A-Mostly-Wind-and-Solar-Powered-US-Economy-Is-a-Dangerous-Fantasy
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5/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/A-New-Paradigm
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1/31/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Electric grids have demonstrated the ability to adapt to some fraction of intermittent renewable generation, as long as there is sufficient dispatchable generation available to meet contemporaneous grid demand when the intermittent ...
therightinsight.org/A-Rational-Transition
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6/4/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Administration has set the nation on a rapid transition to an “all-electric everything” energy economy powered predominantly by intermittent renewable energy. The goal is to complete this transition by 2050. There is ...
therightinsight.org/A-Plan-B-for-addressing-climate-change-and-the-energy-transition
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3/31/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Abandon-Fossil-Fuels-Empower-China
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8/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Achieving-Net-Zero-A-report-from-a-putative-delivery-agency
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3/17/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/All-Electric-Everything
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5/14/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Administration’s All-Electric Everything goal would require the addition of approximately 4,800 GW of storage supported rating plate capacity renewable generation with a capacity factor of approximately 30%, depending on the ...
therightinsight.org/All-Electric-Storage
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4/30/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US Administration has established a goal of transitioning all energy end uses in the economy to electric end uses by 2050. This would be a massive undertaking, requiring the application of currently non-existent technology, particularly...
therightinsight.org/Alternative-Approaches
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8/23/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
There are fundamentally two approaches to the adoption of new technology. The more common approach has been to introduce and market the product, process, or service embodying the new technology and allow the market to adopt the new ...
therightinsight.org/Are-fossil-fuel-CO2-emissions-good-or-bad
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9/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Baseload-Replacement
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7/19/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Baseload powerplants operate continuously at, or close to, their rated capacity to meet the continuous demand on the electric grid. Nuclear power plants are typically operated as baseload plants. Some coal power plants are also operated as ...
therightinsight.org/Capacity-Factors
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5/2/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration chart below is arguably accurate but inarguably misleading.
The capacity factors shown for both wind and solar, while they are the actual percentage...
therightinsight.org/Capacity-Factors-2024-10-01
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10/1/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Capacity factor: The ratio of the electrical energy produced by a generating unit for the period of time considered to the electrical energy that could have been produced at continuous full power operation during the same period. (EIA...
therightinsight.org/Chinas-Long-Game
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9/6/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
China is aggressively pursuing economic development, including construction of numerous coal generating stations, steelmaking facilities and cement kilns. These actions, while inconsistent with the goal of the Paris Accords, are consistent ...
therightinsight.org/Classes-of-DEFRs
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9/24/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
It is broadly, though not universally, acknowledged that a Net Zero electric grid powered predominantly by intermittent renewable generation sources such as wind and solar would require support from dispatchable generation sources to &ldquo...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Extremes
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2/7/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.
The Merry Minuet, Sheldon Harnick
Mother Nature has been providing the earth with numerous types of severe weather ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Fascism
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11/29/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Fascism
1: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Playbook
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7/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
It appears that the White House and at least two of the Executive Branch Agencies are not on the same page of the climate change “playbook”. The Administration has clearly enunciated goals of eliminating coal use by 2030, ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Model-Bias-Series
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3/28/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Climate-Narratives
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10/17/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Several narratives have evolved around the issue of climate change. The narratives originate in the science, but focus on different aspects of the science and different interpretations of its meaning.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
therightinsight.org/Comparing-Power-Generation-Technologies
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12/19/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Costing-the-Green-Grid-Current-and-future-technology
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2/8/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Curiouser-and-Curiouser
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8/31/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Strange decisions are being made by numerous global governments which have committed under the Paris Accords to reduce CO2 emissions in an effort to limit the increase in the global average temperature anomaly to 1.5°C.
China is ...
therightinsight.org/Current-Storage-Deficit
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4/9/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
In a summary of a recent peer-reviewed paper, the principal author stated that an electric grid predominantly powered by intermittent renewables such as wind and solar would require storage approximately equal to 25% of annual generation to...
therightinsight.org/CVOW-and-Storage
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11/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Dominion Energy has proposed to build Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) a 176 wind turbine farm off the Virginia coast. The Virginia Legislature had predetermined that such a project was in the public interest. The Virginia State ...
therightinsight.org/Data-Centers-and-AI
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12/17/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Several “Big Tech” companies are planning to build data centers or AI facilities which would require as much as 1 gigawatt of reliable power supply. The first move in this direction was Microsoft’s decision to contract ...
therightinsight.org/Decarbonizing-Buildings
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7/16/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Decarbonizing-Buildings-2
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7/23/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The DOE Decarbonizing Buildings blueprint, while it deals with fossil fuel end use elimination in the buildings sector, is far more focused on limiting the electricity demand and consumption increases resulting from the replacement of oil ...
therightinsight.org/Decarbonizing-Buildings-3
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10/8/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/DECARBONIZING-THE-U-S-ECONOMY-BY-2050-A-National-Blueprint-for-the-Buildings-Sector
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5/9/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Decision-2024
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10/29/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Democrat and Republican Parties have held their National Conventions and approved their party’s platform for the 2024 presidential election.
The Democrat platform was developed prior to President Biden’s decision to end his...
therightinsight.org/Demonstration-Challenge
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11/28/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The stated goal of the US Administration’s renewable energy transition is to replace all dispatchable fossil-fueled electricity generation and all direct fossil fuel usage with renewable electricity to reduce CO2 emissions. Logically,...
therightinsight.org/Demonstration-Reporting
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4/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
This commentary suggests a reporting format for the renewable plus storage demonstration discussed in the prior two commentaries.
Pre-demonstration electricity generation ... |
therightinsight.org/Dispatchable-Wind-and-Solar
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4/11/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Electricity demand fluctuates continuously, over a range of 2.5-3 to one. Electric utility operators control the output of numerous generation resources over their acceptable range of operation to match the contemporaneous demand of the ...
therightinsight.org/Does-Wind-Intermittance-Over-Short-Hourly-Periods-Gives-a-Clearer-Picture
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8/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Economic-Reality
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5/7/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The energy transition envisioned by the current US Administration is an enormous financial endeavor. It would increase the current US electricity sector investment in generation, transmission and distribution facilities from approximately $...
therightinsight.org/Electric-Energy-Storage
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8/3/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The operation of the electric grid requires continuous balance between supply and demand. Electric demand fluctuates throughout the day and these fluctuations are significantly different between weekdays and weekend days. Electric ...
therightinsight.org/Electric-Transition
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2/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US EIA graph below summarizes the sources and uses of energy in the US economy. The Administration has established a series of progressive goals to eliminate fossil fuel consumption in the energy economy and achieve Net Zero ...
therightinsight.org/Electricity-Prices-Are-Soaring-Its-Time-to-Hold-the-Energy-Transition-Accountable
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1/18/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/End-Subsidies
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8/27/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US government currently subsidizes utility scale wind and solar generation, transmission and electricity storage, in competition with coal, natural gas and nuclear generation. The government also subsidizes on-site residential and ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Climate-Change-Reform-Strategy-Are-we-just-throwing-money-at-the-problem
(For an introduction to this E3 blog series click here)
Put to one side for a moment whether we need to do anything about climate change. Assume it is real and we need to do “something.” There are a wide variety ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Inflation-Was-by-Design
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10/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
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