Battery storage has long been touted as the solution to wind and solar intermittency—or the variable nature of wind and solar electricity production. A recent report co-authored by Mitch Rolling and Jonathan Lesser, Ph.D., for the National Center of Energy Analytics (NCEA), put this to the test. The report, Batteries and the Grid: Hype, Hope, and Economic […]

Isaac Orr, Vice President of Research at Always On Energy Research, joined Fox 5’s Good Day D.C. to discuss whether the electric grid can keep up with AI-driven data center growth. Orr said data centers are currently winning the race against new power plant construction, and that the fastest fix is to stop retiring coal […]

For the last decade, interconnection queues in regions across the country were largely populated by wind, solar, and battery storage proposals due to federal incentives, state renewable energy mandates, flat power demand, and healthy reserve margins that facilitated the growth of intermittent resources while limiting the perceived need for additional dispatchable generation. However, things have […]