"The biggest Grid Innovation recipient is the Minnesota Department of Commerce, which will receive $464 million to coordinate the planning, design, and construction of five transmission projects across seven Midwestern states, known as the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue (JTIQ) Portfolio. The $1.8 billion JTIQ, launched by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) in 2020, aims at building transmission network upgrades along the MISO-SPP seams to enable new generator interconnections."
Inflation’s Assault on Clean Energy
Reducing wasteful and redundant government spending and modernizing regulations will lower borrowing costs for companies and make clean energy more competitive.
Free Markets Can Drive Prosperity Up, Emissions Down
Policies that encourage people to innovate, build efficiently, and invest and trade freely will elevate levels of human prosperity and drive technological advancements to solve our greatest environmental challenges.
Cleaned by Capitalism: How Economic Freedom Creates a Healthier Environment
While global issues such as climate change are complex, the best way to tackle it is through economic freedom.
To Speed Up Hurricane Helene Recovery, Modernize Regulations
Helene is not the last hurricane that the U.S. will face, but it should be the last one whose response is mired by inefficient regulations.
New Report: Freer Economies are Cleaner Economies
A new report finds that free are economies are almost twice as clean as unfree economies.
Space Solar is the Next Energy Market
Solar energy has gone from a niche form of energy production to being an industry worth billions of dollars that is the focus of even more billions in government subsidies. Solar panel arrays can be found everywhere in the US from Maine to Arizona, with companies touting its price declines and green energy generation. While solar energy...
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Breaks Ground in Wyoming: Can it be the First of Many?
If Washington can do its job by fixing broken nuclear energy policies, TerraPower should be the first of many advanced reactor deployments in the U.S.
The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common
It rises like a mountain, up and to the right, and it has become one of the most potent illustrations of the perils of man-made global warming. It’s a chart showing the number of billion-dollar weather disasters that have struck the United States since 1980. When the toll is tallied from hurricanes Helene and Milton,...
A Turning Point in the Climate Debate
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s Forgotten Environmental Strategy