The Obama Administration sold its $787 billion stimulus plan on the basis of improving the economy through investing in green energy and by doing so, increasing employment in the United States. But what is actually happening, particularly with wind and solar projects, is that the majority of the manufactured components are being built offshore in [...]

Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German Experience (PDF 358KB) Washington, DC – Though proponents of so-called government-funded ‘green jobs’ often reference the ‘success’ European countries have enjoyed in their experiments with such regulations and mandates, a study released today in the United States sheds new light on Germany’s experience with renewable [...]

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey bill. Generally, Waxman-Markey bill is thought of as a cap-and-trade bill, but it is far more than that. Of the bill’s 1,428 pages, merely half are dedicated to cap-and-trade. Dr. Robert Michaels, a Senior Fellow with IER, examined the non-cap-and-trade provisions [...]

WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the trade panel of the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled “Growing U.S. Trade in Green Technology.” Institute for Energy Research (IER) board member Steven Hayward, a fellow of law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute, was among those asked to testify. Thomas J. Pyle, president of [...]

Contact: Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947 Chris Tucker 202.621.2951 Spanish Prof. to Congress: Avoid Spain’s Failed Experiment with “Green Jobs” Academic draws attention to the rise, fall and outright collapse of Spanish green jobs bubble WASHINGTON – Spanish professor Gabriel Calzada appeared before the US House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this afternoon to [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 21, 2009 Contact: Patrick Creighton 202.621.2947 Chris Tucker 202.346.8825 Let the Inquisition Begin Spanish Prof. Returns to the States, Sets Out to Set the Record Straight on His Country’s Failed Experiment with Green Jobs WASHINGTON – Four months removed from the release of his study on Spain’s experience with the mass [...]

Energy is critical for our economy and our future and the real issues deserve to be debated. That is why we appreciated the initial response on the American Wind Energy Association’s website to the recent study, Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark. It appears that AWEA actually read the study and raised some questions related [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2009 Contact: Chris Tucker, 202.346.8825 Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947 Something Rotten? Obama Says Danes Receive 20% of Their Power Via Wind; New Study Tells the Real Story Danish experts visit Washington this week to explain to American audiences what’s really happening in Denmark WASHINGTON – President Obama has frequently cited Denmark [...]

The propaganda blitz over the virtues of “green energy” is still running strong. The pressure group “Green For All” recently commissioned a study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). The study is titled, “Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States.” Unfortunately, the new study’s arguments [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2009 Contact: Laura Henderson, 202.621.2951 Patrick Creighton, 202.621.2947 Massive Government Subsidies + Mandates – Reality = Green Jobs Senate panel looks further into what we already know; government control of energy markets hurts economic growth Washington, DC – Several governors from across the nation testified before the Senate Environment and [...]