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Electricity

Reality Check: The United States Has the Only Major Power Grid without a Plan

The US electric grid is fragmented into independent grids and transmission planning regions, which poses a threat to reliability, especially during increasingly frequent extreme weather events. To begin to address this issue, a recent FERC workshop laid out challenges and potential solutions for interregional transmission.

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Unwrapping Coal in 2022

As the world phases out coal, we ask four questions about coal transition mechanisms and where they are headed.