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...
by Meredith Angwin | Nov 5, 2020 | Featured 2, Uncategorized
Shorting is Published! Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is published and available. Shorting was published on October 19. I definitely need to do a catch-up post with some links to podcasts and so forth. I have been on some great podcasts...
