Robert Bryce
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Austin, TX, United States
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Texas Consumers On Hook For $10 Billion In Debt Incurred During Winter Storm Uri
Texas ratepayers are on the hook for at least $10.1 billion in debt that was incurred during the deadly February 2021 storm and they will be paying off much of that debt for the next 30 years. → Read More
Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages
The Palisades Power Plant in Michigan was a workhorse and its closure will increase emissions and the risk of rolling blackouts. → Read More
As coal use surges, America finds it's hard to unplug from carbon
Renewables are politically popular but the hard reality is, countries cannot suddenly quit using coal or natural gas. → Read More
EU Finally Admits Natural Gas And Nuclear Are Key To Decarbonization
Natural gas and nuclear are not “bridge fuels” or “transition” fuels, they are the fuels of the future. Why? They are low- or no-carbon, have small footprints, are affordable, and scalable. → Read More
Maine Voters Reject Transmission Line — How NIMBY Blocks Renewable Energy Expansion
Tuesday's referendum in Maine proved yet again that land-use conflicts are the binding constraint on the expansion of renewables in the U.S. It also showed that the myriad claims being made by climate activists that we can run our economy solely on renewables are little more than wishful thinking. → Read More
The Texas blackouts were caused by an epic government failure
This op-ed is part of a series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section to explore ideas and policies for strengthening electric reliability.... → Read More
Global electricity demand and coal use are soaring after COVID-19
Coal-fired electricity generation is set to exceed pre-pandemic levels in 2021 and reach an all-time high in 2022. → Read More
After Four Days With No Electricity, Some Top Takeaways From The Texas Blackouts
The Texas Blackouts are cold, clear proof that we ignore the fragility of the electric grid at our peril. The grid is our biggest, most important, and most complex network. Its strategic importance to our society cannot be overstated. It is the mother network. It must be resilient and reliable. → Read More
This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To ‘Electrify Everything’
The massive blast of Siberia-like cold that is wreaking havoc across North America is proving that if we humans want to keep surviving frigid winters, we are going to have to keep burning natural gas, and lots of it, for many years to come. → Read More
How Google Powers Its ‘Monopoly’ With Enough Electricity For Entire Countries
Google has become a vertically integrated information-electric utility. It gained near-total market dominance in search and advertising by controlling nearly every aspect of its business, including the ownership of its own fleet of electricity generators. → Read More
My Old Refrigerator Used More Electricity Than 3.3 Billion People
My old Whirlpool fridge used nearly 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Today, about 3.3 billion people are living in places where per-capita electricity use is less than 1,000 kilowatt-hours per year. This massive disparity matters for women's rights, inequality, and climate change. → Read More
An Epidemic Of Stealing Watts For Weed
The marijuana industry has an electricity addiction. That addiction has resulted in an epidemic of electricity theft by black-market growers that is costing electric utilities in the U.S. and Europe millions of dollars per year. → Read More
Beating Covid Is All About Electricity
COVID-19 patients are particularly reliant on electrical devices. → Read More
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New York Has 1,300 Reasons Not To Close Indian Point
Replacing the electricity now being produced by the two reactors at Indian Point with wind turbines will require 1,300 times as much territory as what is now covered by the nuclear plant. → Read More
Freeman Dyson: Humanist and Climate-Change Heretic
Dyson could afford to be a skeptic. Few academics dare to break from the orthodoxy on climate change because the pressure to hew to the majority view is so intense. → Read More
Iran's power over Iraq includes electricity
Iraq’s growing reliance on Iran shows that electricity politics can be more important than old rivalries. → Read More
Hawaii protests show why wind energy can't save us from climate change
Meeting current US electricity needs with wind would require covering a land area twice the size of California with turbines. → Read More
Electric vehicles won't save us from climate change
Even if the domestic EV fleet grows tenfold or more, it won’t make much of a dent in US oil demand. → Read More
‘Climate Action’ Flops at the G-7
Countries put their own economic growth first. Despite President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to push climate change to the front of the discussion during the recently concluded G-7 meeting in France, the confab ended without a concrete agreement to take action on the issue. Some of the blame was... → Read More