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Avoiding the next energy crisis By: Kathryn McNutt The Journal Record February 26, 2021
Energy experts discuss the road to the future in protecting the electrical system during Friday’s JR/Now webinar. (JR Screenshot)
Oklahoma residents learned getting electricity into their homes isn’t as simple as flipping a light switch when the demand skyrocketed in mid-February amid serious supply issues.
“For the first time the general public is beginning to realize through this storm the interdependency of our energy system,” Mark Yates, vice president of Advanced Power Alliance, said Friday. “This event has really elevated the grid, which is a very complicated system.”
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SANTA FE, N.M. The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office has opened an inquiry into utility costs during a recent winter blast that plunged New Mexico and other states into a deep freeze and upended the natural gas market.
Attorney General Hector Balderas said the weather emergency that spanned Texas and parts of New Mexico caused tremendous damage and he wants to ensure customers won’t be further harmed by skyrocketing bills.
“We understand utilities in the state had no choice but to pay. As these fuel costs flow through to customers, there is a strong likelihood that New Mexicans will receive utility bills that are hundreds of dollars higher than they were last month,” his office said in a letter to New Mexico Gas Co. and other providers that serve more rural parts of the state.
Published: Friday, February 26, 2021
Energy collage. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketches); jwigley/Pixabay (pump jack); MaxPixel (turbines); Tikilucas/Wikimedia Commons (coal plant)
A new report from a congressionally established expert panel spells out 40 policy proposals to Congress, the Energy Department, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other state and federal authorities as the U.S. undertakes a rapid clean energy transition fraught with risk. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketches); jwigley/Pixabay (pump jack); MaxPixel (turbines); Tikilucas/Wikimedia Commons (coal plant)
The nation s life-sustaining electrical grid is stumbling into a risk-strewn, low-carbon transformation with inadequate plans, systems and policies in place, a congressionally established expert committee warned yesterday.
By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
New Mexico s top prosecutor has opened an inquiry into utility costs during a winter blast that plunged New Mexico and other states into a deep freeze.
State Attorney General Hector Balderas says the weather emergency caused tremendous damage and he wants to ensure New Mexicans won t be further harmed by skyrocketing bills.
His office set a deadline of Friday for utilities to provide analyses of customer impacts and options for addressing the potential price shock. The utilities also are being asked to explain to their customers the circumstances and the steps being taken to mitigate the situation.