NBC Presents A World Without Electricity on Revolution

What would a world without electricity look like? That's a question that Hollywood's J.J. Abrams is attempting to answer this Fall ...

NEI Energy Markets Report (September 3-7, 2012)

Here's a snippet of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices were mixed last week across the country. ...

NEI Energy Markets Report (August 27-31, 2012)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices made marginal gains last week across the ...

NEI Energy Markets Report (August 20-24, 2012)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week: Electricity peak prices fell $1-$16 last week across the country ...

Almost 700 Million People Without Electricity in India

It's almost impossible to get your arms around the sheer size and scope of the blackout that's struck India over the past two days....

Electricity as a Moral Imperative

We cannot fully endorse everything that puts nuclear energy in a favorable light: It isn't hard to see the one energy source that'...

Revisiting Nuclear Energy and Cooling Water

Earlier this week, the journal Nature Climate Change published a study concerning how warmer weather and reduced river flows might impact e...

Nuclear Fact Check: Jamie Reno and the Daily Beast

Earlier this week, Jamie Reno , a reporter for Tina Brown's Daily Beast wrote a story about San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, and t...

NBC Los Angeles Gets it Right on San Onofre

Over the past few days we've seen a raft of coverage about the incident at San Onofre last week, but little of it has put the events th...

SONGS Is Vital for California’s Electricity Supply

Earlier this week, we reported on our blog about a steam generator tube leak in unit 3 at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) ...

MIT Recommends Single Agency to Manage Cyber Security Threats for Electricity Grid

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report on Monday that discusses the future challenges facing the U.S. electricity gri...

Some Additional Context on the UCS Study on Power Plants and Water Use

Yesterday afternoon, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a study that suggested that thermoelectric power plants were contributing t...

The Latte Fallacy: German Nuclear Shut Down Proving Expensive

One of the big arguments against nuclear is that it simply costs too much. Well, if the latest reports from Germany are anything to go by,...

Samba Power: A Nuclear Re-Start in Brazil

It’s not often we consider nuclear energy in the Americas outside the U.S., but it’s time to take a peek at some interesting developments do...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - November 23 - 27, 2009

The latest is up , below are three tidbits you may find useful: From January 2009 to August 2009, US primary energy consumption fell by...

Bay City Cannonball Sets New Record

Two million electricity consumers in Texas and a neighborhood populated by eagles, falcons, hawks, and alligators may have heard a distant j...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - September 14 - 18, 2009

The latest is up , below are two tidbits you may find useful: Uranium prices continued their trend downward as prices fell to $42-$42.50/lb ...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - September 7 - 11, 2009

The latest is up , here's an interesting nugget from our report: “Year-to-date [through June], total net generation was down 5.0 percent...

NEI's Energy Markets Report - August 31 - September 4, 2009

It's been a year and a half since I last highlighted NEI's Energy Markets Report on our blog. We've still been writing the rep...

NEI's Field Trip to the PJM Interconnection Hub

Last week about 30 of us from NEI took a field trip to the PJM Interconnection hub in Valley Forge, PA to learn how the electric grid opera...