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Failed states have failed electric grids. Nowhere is that truer right now than in Lebanon, where the entire county is teetering on the edge of collapse and hospitals are so short of electricity that dozens of patients who are receiving care in Beirut’s intensive-care wards could be dead by the time you finish reading this article.

As the postmortem of the blackouts that slammed the state back in February continues, it’s apparent that Texans narrowly averted a catastrophe that could have resulted in what biologists call a mass mortality event.

For more than a century, the promise of electric vehicles (EVs) has been parked just beyond the nearest traffic light. In 1901, the Los Angeles Times declared “The electric automobile will quickly and easily take precedence over all other” types of motor vehicles.

Testimony before the United States Congress House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.

The oldest maxim in politics is “follow the money.” That maxim also applies to electric grids.

The climate activists who are dancing on the grave of the canceled Keystone XL pipeline shouldn’t celebrate too much.

On February 16th, the Texas Public Utility Commission issued a now-infamous order that wholesale electricity prices in the state should be set at $9,000 per megawatt-hour.

The academics and bureaucrats who create models that claim we can run the global economy solely on renewable energy live in a different world than you and me. In their world, there is no shortage of money, land, or commodities like copper, cobalt, and lithium.

In the aftermath of the Texas blackouts, one thing became clear: Big Wind and Big Solar have nearly every media outlet in the country on speed dial. Indeed, in the days after the blackouts, numerous media outlets carried stories proclaiming that the near-disastrous failure of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)…

Rural America is fighting back against large-scale renewable energy projects.

Last week, the Biden administration announced “a bold set of actions” that it said will “catalyze” the installation of 30,000 megawatts of new offshore wind capacity by 2030. A White House fact sheet claimed the offshore push will create “good-paying union jobs” and “strengthen the domestic supply chain.” One problem: It didn’t contain a single mention of electricity prices or ratepayers.

The invoices and proposals are still being sorted, but it appears that Texas ratepayers may eventually be on the hook for about $12 billion in electricity-related costs due to the February snowstorm and blackouts that killed 111 people and caused tens of billions of dollars in damages.

On Wednesday, a short item in the Federal Register underscored the regressive nature of the “electrify everything” effort that is being promoted by some of America’s highest-profile environmental groups, climate-change activists, politicians, and academics.