Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Eating Up the Environment
Enel is an Italian firm that that has filled enough of America with wind turbines to cover two of the nation’s big national parks. But the intermittent, weather-dependent power Enel…
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Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Trespassing Against the Osage Nation
One of the most iconic victories over Enel was won by the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma. After receiving permission from the county government, but not…
Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Virtue Signaling
Enel’s home page doesn’t show pictures or even references to natural gas wellheads, coal mines, hydro dams, or nuclear fuel rods that produce the overwhelming majority of its electricity. Yet…
Italian Energy Giant Invades America: The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants remain necessary as backups for the frequent occasions when the wind and sun—like a flaky employee—won’t work. The more unreliability that is added…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon
The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected pay out $400 billion in carbon and climate policy pork, and much of it is crashing down on weather-restricted energy systems such…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Unexpected”
By July 2023 ReNew Economy, "Unexpected and increasing wind turbine failure rates, largely in newer and bigger models, are savaging the profits of some of the world’s biggest manufacturers, as…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Extraordinarily Rare”
Wind-industry spokesman typically characterize wind turbine failures as "very rare," "isolated," and even "extraordinarily rare." But wind turbine fires and other failures have happened often enough to raise serious questions…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Support for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
In 2011, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced it was partnering with the Vestas “WindMade” campaign. WWF is anything but a champion of nuclear power. Throughout 2020 and 2021 the…
Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists
The history of the Union of Concerned Scientists repeatedly promoting the closure of nuclear energy facilities makes it fair to argue the group has opposed nuclear power. In recent years…
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…