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Ben Storrow

Energy Reporter, E&E News · 1 appearance on the record.

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journalist@bstorrow ↗eenews.net ↗

Ben Storrow reports on electric grids, clean energy policy, renewable power, and the transition away from fossil fuels for E&E News and POLITICO. Before joining E&E News, he covered the energy industry and state politics for Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune.

10statements → 7claims → 5claims resolved → 80%fully supported → 3.7/5average certainty → 2.1/5average debate potential →

4 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ben argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Storrow: Subsidies keeping Mystic Generating Station open will end in 2024
“New England consumers basically are paying a subsidy and have been paying a subsidy the last couple years to keep that plan open, but that, those payments are gonna end next year”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 3:07 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ben Storrow on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ben Storrow said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Storrow: ISO New England study finds rooftop solar stabilized regional grid
“And the study finds that, no, actually, New England's grid is, at least in the next couple of years, is actually in really good shape. And a big reason that it's in really good shape is that New Englanders have put so much solar on their rooftops that it is ef…”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 3:48 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Opinion
Storrow: New England Lags Most Regions in Utility-Scale Renewable Resources
“In terms of utility scale, renewable resources, I mean, you know, we pretty much are behind everybody.”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 6:24 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Insight
Storrow: Winter Renewables Extend New England Gas Plants' On-Site Oil Reserves
“These gas plants that we keep talking about as a sort of a reliability buffer, they've all installed oil fire backup. They have oil tanks on site. So if the spot price for gas gets really high, or the pipeline got constrained, they can switch over. And start b…”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 11:36 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Storrow: Solar generation mitigated Texas grid crises during summer heatwave
“They have issued some voluntary conservation notices, but it has not been quite as White knuckle driving as it has been in the last couple years, and a big part of that is, is the amount of renewable generation, and particularly solar, that they're having.”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 17:22 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Supported
Storrow: Subsidies keeping Mystic Generating Station open will end in 2024
“New England consumers basically are paying a subsidy and have been paying a subsidy the last couple years to keep that plan open, but that, those payments are gonna end next year”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 3:07 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Supported
Storrow: Southwest Power Pool Regularly Sets Records for Renewable Grid Penetration
“SPP, the grid operator, and the Great Plains, like, every year is setting new records for, I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but, like, just The vast majority of the system is running off of renewables.”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 8:14 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Storrow: Texas historically neglected energy efficiency due to abundant cheap power
“Texas is an, I should maybe say energy resource poor region of the country, and Texas is an energy rich resource of the country in pretty much every sense of the word, right? And so I think when I talk to people down in Texas, the solar and the wind are a real…”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 19:13 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Insight
Storrow: The core grid challenge is phasing out fossils while incentivizing retention
“We're starting to push past that first phase of the energy transition where we're just bringing, and it Megawatt hours of clean power online and we're not really to the upward bounds of, like, You know, we're not to 50 or 60% renewables yet, but, like, we can …”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 22:00 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Supported
Storrow: Texas is setting records for load, renewable, and solar output
“Texas is setting new records during this incredible heat wave that they're having for load for renewable output, and for solar output”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 15:56 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Assertion Supported
Storrow: Renewables are serving 30% of Texas's 82 GW peak load
“We're getting, on some of the records, we're seeing there are days where, you know, renewables are serving 30% of the Texas, of Texas load, of ERCOT load, and I mean, 30% of ERCOT's load, it's 82 gigawatts.”
Ben Storrow Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 16:52 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England Jul 26, 2023 14m
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