Natural Gas: The Indispensable Fuel for Energy Security

Natural Gas: The Indispensable Fuel for Energy Security Ed Ireland Energy Economist and Writer at edireland.substack.com … … [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post regarding indispensable natural gas from our friend Ed Ireland at “Thoughts about Energy and Economics.” It is a reader-supported publication, so please go there, “Like” it, share it with friends

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Shapiro Rashly Bets Pennsylvanian Future on Dicey Energy

Shapiro Rashly Bets Pennsylvanian Future on Dicey Energy Gordon Tomb Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition   .. …. [Editor’s Note: There’s nothing more dicey at the moment than green energy, which is failing everywhere, but Josh Shapiro is willing to bet Pennsylvania’s future on fantasies.] Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has asked regional power grid operators to

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Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Our Electric Grid!

Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Our Electric Grid Gordon Tomb Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition   .. …. [Editor’s Note: Our guest blogger, Gordon Tomb, recently gave an excellent presentation to the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association and the full text follows.] First, I want to say how glad I am to be in

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PJM Grid Subject to Texas Style Blackouts If We Go Too Green

Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The PJM grid is at great risk. It is threatened by the green virtue signaling of politicians such as Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf.] With Green New Dealers running Washington, D.C., and Gov. Tom Wolf pushing so-called green energy from Harrisburg, questions must be asked about the development

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Vistra Energy closing 4 Illinois power plants

Independent power producer Vistra Energy and its subsidiaries Wednesday named the four coal-fired power plants to be retired to meet the requirements of the recently approved revisions to the Multi-Pollutant Standard (Mps) rule imposed by the Illinois Pollution Control Board (Ipcb). Without this rule change, Vistra said the company’s entire downstate Illinois fleet was at

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