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Chester Energy and Policy started in 2017 as a blog before blossoming into a full consulting business. The goal of the blog originally was simple: answer interesting questions in the world of energy & sustainability that weren’t being answered elsewhere, tapping into energy data sets, expert interviews, and a unique lens.
Today, the blog section of Chester Energy and Policy seeks to continue that mission: answering interesting questions. If you have a question that you think is worth diving into for a blog post, reach out and let us know! .
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USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Electron Renaissance: A Rebirth of Invention in the Energy Space
A whole suite of new technologies is headed for the electric space in an Electron Renaissance. Within the next decade, these new technologies will begin to be felt —some with major impact.
USEA Virtual Press Briefing: The Deepening Electric Supply Crisis
The warnings have been issued. The numbers are in. There is trouble ahead for the U.S. electricity supply system, and the fixes may take years.Willie Phillips, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said, “Our country is facing an unprecedented surge in demand for affordable electricity while confronting extreme weather threats to the reliability of our grid, and trying to stay one step ahead of massive technological changes we are seeing in our society.”
USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Fusion: Is Commercialization in Sight?
There are intimations that fusion’s time may have arrived. After more than 70 years of research, huge public funding and many false starts, overblown expectations and sorry disappointments, are the prospects of an electricity-producing fusion plant at hand? Has the key to turn in the door of a vast storehouse of clean electricity become available?
USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Tough Times, Hard Choices in Store for Utilities This Year
Utility resilience is a life-and-death matter in extreme cold and heat this year. Last year was a rough one for utilities, and they made it through with planning, technical expertise and collaborations. Heat hung over most of the country and Phoenix hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit on 54 days, setting another record.
USEA Virtual Press Briefing: A New Era of Energy Crisis Is Unfolding
What appears to be a perfect storm is forming over the nation’s electricity supply.
This winter may be the first test, and what happens next summer and going forward has many in the industry voicing considerable alarm, including talk of a new energy crisis of indefinite duration.
USEA Virtual Press Briefing Series: The High Excitement and Many Questions about SMRs
There are great expectations for small modular reactors.
In nuclear circles they represent the arrival, at long last, of the nuclear renaissance, the dawn of a new nuclear age.
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