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A Cold Blast From the Past

The Top Five Posts of 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — December 27, 2024

Watch "Texas' Opportunities and Risks in the Energy Expansion and Transition"

TOMORROW: Special Subscriber-Only Presentation

PCM Likely to Be Shelved Tomorrow: Grid Roundup #36

Leadership and Finding Middle Ground with Governor Rick Perry

You're Invited to a Special Subscriber-Only Presentation

A Consumer-Led Solar and Storage Revolution with Sunrun CEO Mary Powell

Railroad Commission Supports Renewables for Hydrogen, Grid Roundup #35

Reading and Podcast Picks — December 6, 2024

The Tables Are Turned: Becky Klein Interviews Me at the Texas Energy Summit

Join Me This Week

ERCOT Still Doesn’t Understand Winter Demand

Drilling Down on What Trump Can — and Cannot — Do for the Oil Industry

Texas PUC Chairman's "Key to Reliability in the State" and More in Grid Roundup #34

Updates on Nuclear Power, Transmission, and Early Filed Bills: Grid Roundup #33

Texas Energy Summit This Week

How to Overcome Ideological Divides and the Climate of Contempt

CenterPoint, Microgrids, Batteries, and More: Grid Roundup #32

Technology, Markets, Policy — In That Order

ERCOT shows high probability of rolling outages in a winter storm

Ancillary Service Workshop Kicks Off: Grid Roundup #31

Innovation at the Grid Edge with DOE's Ram Narayanamurthy

Reading and Podcast Picks — October 28, 2024

Grid Roundup #31: Did the Legislature Intend to Move to a Capacity Market?

Grid Roundup #30, October 18, 2024

Celebrate Texas’ Energy Leaders this Friday

Energy Efficiency in the Spotlight at the PUC Today

Join Me at These Upcoming Events

What to Watch for in ERCOT's Board Meeting Today

The Power of Microgrids with Jana Gerber

Grid Roundup #29, October 7, 2024

Heat raises prices; solar and storage lowers them

Resilience for All: Improving Disaster Response and Responsiveness with Dr. Sergio Castellanos

Subscriber Chat for Senate Hearing Today

Special Episode with the Chairman of the Texas PUC, Thomas Gleeson

Texas Grid Roundup #28, September 26, 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — Sept. 24, 2024

Clean Energy Boom Is Already Great for Texas — And Getting Even Better

Deploy! Unlocking America's Energy and Economic Potential with Jigar Shah

Watch "ERCOT's Rising Demand and Changing Supply"

Starting at 10 TODAY: Special Presentation over Zoom

Texas Grid Roundup #27, September 12, 2024

This Week: Live Chat and Zoom Presentation

Texas Needs a Vision for Customer-Side Solutions

Texas Energy Fund off to a Rocky Start, Texas Grid Roundup #26

Integrating Distributed Energy Resilience Solutions with Arushi Sharma Frank

Reading and Podcast Picks — Sept. 2, 2024

Grid Roundup #25: DER Policy, Texas Energy Fund, and More

Subscriber Chats and a Special Presentation on the Evolving Grid

Join Me at These Upcoming Events

An Eventful Week on the ERCOT Grid

Grid Roundup #23, August 19, 2024

Rooftop Revolution: John Berger on Scaling Distributed Solar in Texas

Grid Roundup #22, August 13, 2024

Process of Exclusion

Scorched Earth: Understanding the Deadly Impact of Heat with Jeff Goodell

Reading and Podcast Picks — August 6, 2024

Grid Roundup #21, August 2, 2024

Resilience Through the Storm with Enchanted Rock's Allan Schurr

What Happens Next?

Texas Grid Roundup #20, July 25, 2024

You Get What You Pay For: Let's Pay Utilities for Performance

Reading and Podcast Picks — July 21, 2024

Increasing Stability and Driving Savings: Battery Storage in Texas with Olivier Beaufils

Texas Grid Roundup #19, July 18, 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — July 15, 2024: Hurricane Beryl & CenterPoint Edition

The Grid Solution That’s Close to Home

Texas Grid Roundup #18, July 10, 2024

Mailbag! — July 3, 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — July 2, 2024

Texas Grid Roundup #17, June 28, 2024

The Changing Shape of the Grid with Hala Ballouz

Reading and Podcast Picks — June 25, 2024

The Past, Present, and Future of the Texas Energy Market with Former PUC Chair Becky Klein (reupload)

Texas Grid Roundup #16, June 21, 2024

The Past, Present, and Future of the Texas Energy Market with Former PUC Chair Becky Klein

Reading and Podcast Picks — June 17, 2024

Texas Grid Roundup #15, June 12, 2024

Coal’s End is Texas’ Gain

Turning Waste Into Power: Crusoe's Cully Cavness on Revolutionizing Energy Use at Data Centers

Texas Grid Roundup #14, June 5, 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — June 2, 2024

Drilling for Geothermal Power and Storage with Cindy Taff

Texas Grid Roundup #13, May 29, 2024

Reading and Podcast Picks — May 24, 2024

Measuring and Valuing Energy Efficiency and DERs with Carmen Best

The PUC’s Efficiency Questions: A Potential Turning Point for Grid Reliability

Reading and Podcast Picks — May 17, 2024

Texas Grid Roundup #12, May 16, 2024

Creating a Distributed Battery Network with Zach Dell

A Grid Constrained, Part 1

Texas Grid Roundup #11: Storage shatters record

Announcing: Reading and Podcast Picks

Oil and Gas in the Energy Transition with Jane Stricker

Texas Grid Roundup #10, April 30, 2024

Induced Demand: Why Highways Slow Us Down with Megan Kimble

ERCOT's "New Era" of Growth Needs Clean Energy

Mailbag! - Demand Growth, Microgrids, Dynamic Transmission, and More!

Texas Grid Roundup #9, April 17, 2024

A Critical Window to Address Rising ERCOT Demand

A Texas Power Promise with Senator Nathan Johnson

Texas Grid Roundup #8, April 5, 2024

Resistance is Still Futile: Exploring Heat Pumps with Eric Wilson

Solar, Storage, and the Texas Grid with Andy Bowman

ERCOT and PUC Actions Don’t Match Words on Grid Reliability

Texas Grid Roundup #7, March 26, 2024

CERAWeek Headlines Miss the Bigger Story

The Future of Hydrogen in Texas with Dr. Emily Beagle

Watch "The More Things Change: How the History of the Grid Can Help Us Solve Modern Challenges"

"The Name of the Game is Flexibility," a Conversation with ERCOT's Pablo Vegas

Join Me at These Upcoming Events

Electric Co-Ops and Local Power with John Padalino

PUC Needs to Ask Different Questions

Texas Burning

The More Things Change…

Texas Grid Roundup #6, Pre-ERCOT Board Meeting Edition

Texas Grid Roundup #5, February 22, 2024

Achieving Environmental Justice, A Conversation with Dr. Robert Bullard

Texas Grid Roundup #4, February 16, 2024

Distributed Energy Resources and "all-of-the-above" energy solutions with CenterPoint's Jason Ryan

Three Years Gone

Opportunities From Dispatchable and Flexible Demand

Phase One Ends, What Will Define Phase Two?

The Future is Distributed

Interview with Energy Expert Dr. Michael Webber

Texas Grid Roundup #3, January 29, 2024

An Interview with Former ERCOT Independent Market Monitor Beth Garza

The most important thing the PUC can do in 2024 to prevent winter outages

Texas Grid Roundup #2, January 19, 2024

The Energy Capital Podcast, Episode 1 with Former PUC Commissioner Will McAdams

The Energy Capital Podcast, Episode 1 with Former PUC Commissioner Will McAdams

Heather Is Not Uri

Another Blast of Cold Air

Another Blast of Cold Air

Texas Grid Roundup #1, January 10, 2024

New Podcast Coming Soon!

The Top Ten Posts of 2023