Mineral and Energy Economics Program Director, Dr. Ian Lange, contributed to a story by Inside Energy, “The Electricity Mix in the Western Grid is Changing Before Our Eyes.” From the story: Lange, an economist at Mines, says the intermittency of wind and solar means that often, “you need to hurry up and get something generating something right away, and that’s what natural gas can do very well.” In the eastern and midwestern U.S., the electric grid is integrated at a large scale. But in the West, “we have a lot more of a piecemeal grid,” says Lange. Because grids in subregions (the Pacific ....