Frank's Blog

The call to expand the U.S. transmission system to achieve massive greenhouse gas reduction goals is widespread. Electricity expansion studies that achieve net zero emissions on paper find feasible and least cost expansion generation and transmission expansion plans that do so with little if any, increase in electricity prices.

The single clearing price should not be the focus of electricity market reforms

This blog reviews current research & discusses the next steps in developing a comprehensive probabilistic risk assessment of power systems to inform policymaking.

The deficiencies with the LOLP/LOLE criterion are well known and were raised many years ago

Pursuing an FCEM may be a distraction and counterproductive to achieving public policy objectives

Utility executives, investors, business developers, and policymakers are confronting a wave of suggestions for improving the power sector's reliability and resiliency