grid reliability

An electric car charges at a transportable, off-grid, solar powered, solar tracking, electric vehicle charger at a National Renewable Energy Laboratory facility.

U.S. Department of Energy/Flickr

August 16, 2023

EVs Can Support Power Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs. Here’s How.

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Oxana Melis/Unsplash

August 16, 2023

California Has a Chance to Ensure EVs Get Even Better With Bidirectional Charging

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

Pedro Castellano

June 12, 2023

Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Image from space of California and Nevada

European Space Agency

April 19, 2023

Western Grid Regionalization Is Back on the Drawing Board. Why Now?

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

image of tornado approaching a car, Texas, 1995

Harald Richter/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

April 12, 2023

Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

Marii Sha/Unsplash

January 24, 2023

Storm Elliott Knocked Out Fossil-Fuel Power. We’ve Been Here Before.

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

Cinzy Hidden/Flickr

January 4, 2023

What Does Western Grid Regionalization Mean for California?

Vivian Yang
Western States Energy Analyst

Jeremy Bezanger/Unsplash

September 21, 2022

Changes to California’s Resource Adequacy Program Will Have Huge Consequences for the Power Grid

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

GPA Photo Archive/Flickr

September 12, 2022

Can the Electric Grid Handle EV Charging?

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

Mathias Appel/Flickr

September 7, 2022

Failure to Plan Could Create an Energy Crisis

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Western Area Power/Flickr

August 31, 2022

September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

May 18, 2022

Why We Can Send A Rover To Mars, But We Can’t Send An Electron From New York to California

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Markus Spiske/Unsplash

April 25, 2022

Grid Modeling Overview: Four Types of Models Guiding the Transition to Clean Electricity

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Paxson Woelber/Flickr

January 24, 2022

Odds are Power Plants Near You are Holding Back on Cold Days

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Moritz Knoringer/Unsplash

December 14, 2021

California Energy: A 2021 Review and a Look Ahead

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

a photo of the Russell City Energy Center in Hayward, California, taken by the blog author on his tour. a sign on the chainlink fence in front of the plant reads, "welcome to the best damn plant in the fleet!"

August 12, 2021

I Toured “the Best Damn Plant in the Fleet.” Two Years Later It Exploded.

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Kevin Dooley/Flickr

June 24, 2021

California Takes Big Step Towards Clean Electricity, But Not Without Stumbling

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Matthew Henry/Unsplash

June 15, 2021

Why Should We Care About MISO’s Long Range Transmission Planning?

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

Portland General Electric's Salem Smart Power Center

Portland General Electric/flickr

June 14, 2021

To Understand Energy Storage, You Must Understand ELCC

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Solar panels in the desert

Tom Brewster Photography/flickr

October 26, 2020

Five Facts about Energy Storage that Every Californian Should Know

Guest Commentary

October 12, 2020

ELCC Explained: the Critical Renewable Energy Concept You’ve Never Heard Of

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy