Thoughts About Energy and Economics
Ed IrelandThoughts about Energy and Economics
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A Texas Pickle, Part 1
The Texas power grid is indeed in a pickle, as Doug writes on LinkedIn, due to an over-abundance of intermittent solar and wind generation and skyrocketing demand for uninterrupted power from an abundance of AI data centers under constructi...
Future power generation facilities may be "super flexible," able to sell into multiple grids or into off-grid markets
Doug Sheridan posted another great thought piece on LinkedIn, suggesting that power generators may soon become “super flexible” in their ability to sell their power into multiple markets. He uses the analogy of college athletes who hop from...
EIA Projects Explosive Growth in Texas' Electricity Demand
In their “Today in Energy” report released on July 31, 2025, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects ERCOT to see explosive growth in electricity demand in Texas in 2025 and 2026, averaging 11% per year, driven by large dat...
"Sunblock: The Global Fight To Save Farmland From Big Solar"--A Short Documentary Film by Robert Bryce
Robert just released an excellent short documentary that he filmed and produced himself. In it, he highlights the worldwide destruction of prime farmland by large-scale solar farms, including interviews with landowners in Texas. The film is...
Doug Sheridan: Texas hasn't been a good-faith partner to gas-fired generators for many years now
Doug Sheridan writes succinct, powerful thought pieces on LinkedIn:
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If we owned stranded or under-utilized gas-fired generation plants in Texas (or any other state) subsisting only on the economic table scraps thrown t...
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Energy analyst, writer, adjunct professor, and Ph.D. economist with 40+ years in the energy industry.
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