Category: Energy

Since 2011, market participants, regulators, and watchers have understood that intermittent energy sources—wind and solar—are causing three major problems in the ERCOT electric market. First, their intermittency has increasingly pushed the grid towards unreliability. Second, they have driven reliable thermal generation out of the market because renewable subsidies have made investment in dispatchable generation unattractive….

The Failed War Against Fossil Fuels is Costing Americans Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Executive Summary By the 1800s, wind and solar were both mature and successful technologies. Yet as soon as Western society developed the wealth and technology to take advantage of fossil fuels, they were discarded—along with batteries for electric cars—and had no…

Texas’ Decision to Subsidize Natural Gas Generation Has Hiked Electricity Costs Texas had the highest wholesale electricity prices in the U.S. over the last three years, according to a new report released by the Energy Alliance. From 2021 through 2023, the wholesale price of electricity in ERCOT, which covers about 90% of Texas’ electric grid, averaged $117…

Electricity Prices Have Skyrocketed Under Biden and Harris Critics of former President Donald Trump often claim he is lying. Much of the time, however, the critics fail to recognize he is simply using hyperbole to highlight the problems Democrats and establishment Republicans are causing across our country. Sunday night, Trump was at it again during…

“We have heard testimony … about the threat climate change poses to entire sectors of our economy … So, what are we, the federal government, doing to protect against these threats?  Actually, we are subsidizing the danger.  As we’ll hear today, the United States subsidizes the fossil fuel industry with taxpayer dollars.” – U.S. Senator…

Only a decade ago, Texas had the most competitive electricity market in the world, a market that produced reliable, affordable electricity. Today, the Texas electric grid has been taken over by Texas government. This has produced predictable results: reliability has plummeted while costs have skyrocketed. A new study by the Energy Alliance explains how high the costs…