by Meredith Angwin | Mar 12, 2022 | Featured 2
Helpless As I write this, the city of Kyiv is being encircled by Russian forces. As Mike Lillis wrote in The Hill yesterday, the Ukraine siege leaves (U.S.) lawmakers horrified, unified—-and feeling helpless. Why are they feeling helpless? Lillis quotes Biden,...
by Meredith Angwin | Feb 26, 2022 | Featured 1
Connecticut Legislature Holds A Hearing On February 1, the Connecticut General Assembly sponsored the hearing “Staring into the Storm” through their Energy Committees. The legislators wanted to know whether the New England electric grid was ready for a...
by Meredith Angwin | Sep 4, 2021 | Featured 1
What Surprised You? Eric Meyer of Generation Atomic has started a new on-line book club. Eric starts the conversation with a very important question: “In this book, what surprised you?” Great question! The club meetings started with my book, Shorting the Grid. I...
by Meredith Angwin | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured 3, Uncategorized
A reliable electric grid What kind of grid do we want? That can be a huge question. Nuclear energy: yes or no? Renewables: yes or no? In considering the grid we want, there are many areas for disagreement. In contrast, most people will agree that the lights should go...
by Meredith Angwin | Nov 23, 2020 | Featured 1, Uncategorized
Winter Weather As I wrote in Shorting the Grid, the quest for reliable electricity in the winter in New England is far more difficult than it needs to be. The root of the problem is the FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) rules for areas like New England. This...