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Want To Municipalize Your Utility? I Mean, Really?

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, detroit edison, distribution, DTE, DTE Energy, feeder, feeder lines, flooding, generation mix, grid, jerry norcia, miso, miso grid, municipalization, power generation, power grid, public utility, renewables, severe weather, southeast michigan, storms, thunderstorms, transmission, underground utility lines, undergrounding, undergrounding utilities, weather and utilities

DTE Energy is a disaster, as evidenced by its continued embrace of fossil fuels and its apocalypse-level outages. That doesn’t mean that a public option could do better. But there are some options for improving.

Aerial view from a drone looking straight down at high-voltage power transmission infrastructure, some sort of substation or transformer assembly, and a part of the power grid.

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This Doesn’t Happen In A Normal Climate– Or Power Grid

February 15, 2021February 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments coal, coal power, dallas, electric reliability council of texas, electrical generation, electricity, ERCOT, galveston, gas, gas-fired, gas-fired turbine, generation mix, gulf coast, houston, load following, microgrid, mid-merit, NERC, peaker, peaker plant, PJM, power generation, power grid, power grids, power plant, texas interconnection, texas power grid, texas storm, texas storms, texas winter storm

An unusual winter storm in the Lone Star State is prompting the grid operator to orchestrate voluntary blackouts– asking people to shut off power voluntarily. Climate change, power reliability, and the state of infrastructure in the United States in 2021.