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Trade Policy Disputes at COP Are Here to Stay
This year’s Conference of the Parties (COP-29) broke new ground with the Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment, and Trade (BICFIT)—the first high-profile COP initiative to place trade...
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Transforming America’s Power System
This week host Jason Bordoff talks with Cheryl LaFleur and David Hill about the incoming Trump administration, its impact on FERC, and the status of permitting reform measures.
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Can AI Help Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases?
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs for a special webinar "Can AI Help Reduce Emissions of...
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Tag: ERCOT
Solar Is Keeping the Texas Grid Running. Next Month’s Eclipse Will Be a New Test
A summer of brutal heat has strained the Texas grid. Even as the hot weather subsides, operators are already getting ready for a unique challenge.
ERCOT’s pleas for power conservation raise concerns: Are Texans tuning them out?
Repetitive power conservation appeals by the state’s grid operator face a challenge: Texans becoming less responsive to calls. Past conservation requests have helped reduce 100,000 homes worth of power demand on the grid.
ERCOT issues conservation request amid high outages of natural gas, coal plants
Natural gas and coal plants may be buckling under the strain after months of running at...
Texas narrowly avoided a power emergency last week. What happened?
Conservation may have played a part, but significant contributions came from battery...