Let There Be Light
During a Senate hearing last week, Rand Paul complained about the federal energy standards that will force conventional incandescent light bulbs off the market during the next few years. "I can't buy...
View ArticleThe Future of American Energy Policy
Given the red-team/blue-team dynamic of American politics, it was probably inevitable that discussion of energy policy would degenerate into a debate between drillers and renewers—between those who...
View ArticleDeregulation of Nuclear Power Saves Money and Reduces Pollution
“Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power,” a working paper out of Berkeley’s Energy Institute at Haas, finds that the deregulation of the nuclear industry in the...
View ArticleThe Facts Behind the EPAs Latest Proposal
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a regulation on the books that will cost $10 billion a year and will do almost nothing to accomplish its aim of improving public health. It is...
View ArticleEPA's Fuzzy Math
In my opinion piece yesterday I argued that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using fuzzy math to justify massive regulations:MATS claims to target one pollutant but draws all of its...
View ArticleShould We Double Down on Clean Energy?
In his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to "double down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising." This was made all the more clear last week when the President...
View ArticleEvergreen Solar Follows Solyndra's Lead
Evergreen Solar, a green energy company that that went bankrupt last year after receiving millions in state subsidies, will abandon its Massachusetts plant which cost $450 million to build just five...
View ArticleAmericans Remain Supportive of Natural Gas
Despite attempts by environmental activists like Josh Fox and his movie Gasland, American support for natural gas slightly rose in 2012, according to a new Harris poll.Sixty-six percent of Americans...
View ArticleThe Facts Behind EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations
After the defeat of his carbon dioxide cap-and-trade legislation in 2009, President Obama told a room of reporters that there was “more than one way to skin a cat.” And in the new political era of...
View ArticleThe Limits of Wind Power
Executive SummaryEnvironmentalists advocate wind power as one of the main alternatives to fossil fuels, claiming that it is both cost effective and low in carbon emissions. This study seeks to evaluate...
View ArticleLike Obama said, Privatize the TVA!
Steve Esposito has some thoughts on President Obama's proposal to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, a massive bureaucracy of electricity generation, flood control, jobs for cousins, patronage...
View ArticleReason's Len Gilroy Talks TVA Privatization, Annual Privatization Report on...
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Heartland Institute's Steve Stanek for an episode of their Heartland Daily Podcast, where we discussed President Obama's recent budget...
View ArticleCronyism Threatens California Condors
Orange County Register From Solyndra, the failed solar company that cost taxpayers over $500 million, to Fisker, the car maker that could cost taxpayers $170 million, the federal government is spending...
View ArticleObama and Reagan Agree: Divest the Tennessee Valley Authority
In 1987, the federal government divested itself of Conrail, a freight railroad based largely in the Northeast and Midwest. Just as that divestiture was nearing completion, President Reagan is reported...
View ArticleThe Highest Paid Federal Employee Is Not the President
If you think the president of the United States—our country’s chief executive officer and commander-in-chief—is the most highly-compensated federal employee, you would be wrong…by a long shot. While...
View ArticleObama on TVA: Time to Transfer to Help Mitigate Risk to Taxpayer
Kudos to the Obama Administration and its proposed fiscal year 2015 budget for continuing “to believe that reducing or eliminating the federal government’s role in programs such as TVA [the Tennessee...
View ArticleThe Hidden Costs of Wind Power in California
Intermittent renewable energy sources like wind and solar are growing in use largely because of government regulations, favorable tax treatment and mandates. However, they impose hidden “integration”...
View ArticleAssessing the Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards
More than half the states have renewable portfolio standards in place requiring certain and growing percentages of electricity to come from specified sources. Are these policies providing society with...
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EPAs Clean Power Plan: Legal? Maybe. Effective and Equitable? Hardly.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new set of rules that would set limits on carbon dioxide emissions from electrical power generators. The EPA wants each state, within roughly a...
View ArticleObama Administration Report Overstates Wind Power's Potential, Understates...
My new column is up RealClearMarkets:The U.S. Department of Energy just released a report in which it claims that consumers and the environment would benefit from increasing the proportion of...
View ArticleObama Administration Report Overstates Wind Power's Potential, Understates...
Real Clear Markets The U.S. Department of Energy just released a report in which it claims that consumers and the environment would benefit from increasing the proportion of electricity derived from...
View ArticleCalifornia Is the Wrong Energy Model for the Nation and World
Investor's Business Daily California Gov. Jerry Brown has hailed the Golden State as a model to be followed when United Nations climate negotiators convene in Paris this year.If my experience working...
View ArticleRebutting the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan's Claims
The Obama administration released its new clean power plan today. The White House Fact Sheet claims: “The Clean Power Plan is a Landmark Action to Protect Public Health, Reduce Energy Bills for...
View ArticleObama's Clean Power Plan Is Bad News for California
Orange County Register The White House recently released its Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. Almost immediately, California Gov....
View ArticleFlorida Amendment 1 Rejects the Future of Energy
On the November ballot in Florida is Amendment 1, a curious attempt to roll back the clock and let utilities ignore technological change. It is being sold as a bill to stop subsidizing of residential...
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