The name and format may have changed, but the content remains the same. It continues to be a curated sample of the week’s more interesting, important, or just amusing stories. Today’s Planet Pulse ...

It would be wonderful if the Brazilian electricity sector based their strategies on simple, robust metrics that are easy to understand for everyone involved in the value chain. It would be so valuable ...

The latest in the GOP’s energy dominance agenda: The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced 13 energy bills this week that would rev up new power plants and block incentives for wind and solar. ...

Three Mile Island is reopening a year early. The Unit 1 reactor could restart as early as 2027, pending PJM approval of an early interconnection request. (Fox43) Context: Three Mile Island owner ...

FERC Chairman Mark Christie. Looking at the performance of the giant PJM regional transmission operator during the heat assault, the nation’s largest RTO, Christie said the grid system hit a peak ...

Oncor is asking Texas regulators to increase its base rates by some $834 million. Customer bills could climb about 4.7%, should Texas’s PUC approve the plan. (Utility Dive) Oncor (the largest ...

Massachusetts’s revamped solar incentive program could support the state’s solar industry—federal tax credit rollback or not.(Canary Media) The updated Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) ...

YaleClimateConnections: "Climate change could take a bite out of the banana industry."Most of this fruit sold in the U.S. is sourced from Latin American countries like Costa Rica + Columbia. Dan ...

Ironically, EVs were a popular and the least expensive type of vehicle at the dawn of the automotive age. In the earliest part of the 20th Century, there were a mixture of internal combustion powered ...

French Utility EDF has Submitted an Application to Build Two 1600 MW EPRs at the Sizewell C Site in the UK The Government of the Czech Republic Will Lend its State Owned Utility CEZ up to 70% of the ...

Over the past decades the engagement of the utility customer has dramatically increased. This engagement needs to be enhanced and leveraged to speed the energy transition and improve grid reliability.

I have written at least two earlier posts on the title subject. These posts had some reasonable ideas, but what I didn’t have was the skill (nor credibility) to have anyone to take them seriously.