In Texas and California, blackouts highlight the challenge of balancing reliability with cost
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Over the past year, the United States has endured two major “load shedding” events in which electric system operators instructed transmission owners to reduce demand by rotating blackouts across service regions. The first event occurred in California last August, when the Western United States was gripped by an oppressive heat wave that caused a surge in electricity demand and limited power imports into the state. The second event stretched over Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana this February, as a historic cold snap froze generating units, constrained gas supplies, andpushed electric heat demand to unprecedented levels. In both cases, a carousel of blame ensued, and customers were left wondering how an entire region, or a state the size of France, could run out of electricity.
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Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Key To Making Saudi Arabia A World Oil Power, Dies At 90
By Jackie Northam
February 23, 2021
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia’s long-serving oil minister who was instrumental in catapulting the kingdom into the energy powerhouse it is today
, has died in London. He was 90 years old.
Yamani held enormous sway on the global stage during his nearly 25 years as oil minister,
starting in 1962, and rose to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo.
A devout Muslim, Yamani was born in the holy city of Mecca, the son of an Islamic judge who taught him to debate and think logically. Yamani earned higher education degrees abroad, at a university in Cairo, New York University and Harvard, before heading back to Saudi Arabia, where he gained a reputation as a brilliant lawyer and newspaper columnist.
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Electricity system in crisis: How to improve reliability and resilience before the next disaster strikes
Wed, Feb 24, 2021 4:00 PM
Online Event
In light of the recent winter freeze energy crisis across the United States, experts discuss how to ensure grid reliability and resilience in advance of the next major power disruption.
Event recap
On February 24, 2021, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center hosted an event focused grid resilience and reliability in the face of increasingly severe extreme weather events, with a spotlight on the February 2021 winter freeze crisis in Texas.
The event kicked off with opening remarks by
Margaret Jackson, deputy director of climate and advanced energy at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, as she emphasized the importance of addressing vulnerabilities in the power grid. Following her remarks, the event transitioned to a virtual panel discussion featuring
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