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  • October 2010
    Solar Energy is California’s New Gold Rush

    The California motto is “eureka,” which means, “I have found it.” The ‘it’ refers to gold and conjures images of the great...

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  • September 2010
    Feed-In Tariffs Are Good for Expensive Renewables,...

    Solar technologies are expensive and require government assistance to turn them into lucrative enterprises, as Germany and Spain have found and as...

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  • July 2010
    Shouldn’t We Learn from Europe?

    Europe has implemented Feed-In Tariffs. Shouldn’t We Learn from their Experience? Europe’s feed-in tariffs have led to higher electricity prices without having...

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  • May 2010
    The Sun is Shining on Solar Subsidies...

    Washington, DC – This afternoon President Obama will visit Solyndra Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility in Freemont, California that received a...

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  • May 2010
    Alternative Energy: Lessons from Spain

    IER economist Robert P. Murphy discussing Spain's green jobs experience at a briefing on December 3rd, 2009. The briefing, entitled Alternative Energy:...

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  • April 2010
    IER Teams Up with AWEA, Sierra Club...

    Photo: Flickr user afsart WASHINGTON – Citing the intransigence of Mother Earth and the increasingly irreconcilable differences between the dictates of U.S....

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