China Controls Global Rare Earth Mineral Trade
June 5, 2019Rare earth minerals—a group of 17 elements with similar qualities—are used in hundreds of high-technology products and military equipment. Military…
Quote – Coal Group Says Fossil Fuels Still Cheapest Way of Making Power
June 3, 2019“The trade group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and the free-market Institute for Energy Research issued a report Monday…
Existing Generating Resources Are Less Costly Than New Generating Resources
June 3, 2019The Institute for Energy Research (IER) and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) released a report today that…
The Levelized Cost of Electricity from Existing Generation Resources
June 3, 2019Read the full report. In this report, the authors analyze publicly available data to estimate the average levelized cost of electricity…
Plugged In Podcast #23: Kenny Stein on renewable technologies, congressional testimony and recap
May 16, 2019Kenny Stein, IER’s Policy Director, provided testimony before the Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science,…
Fossil Fuels vs. Climate Politics: Two Graphs
May 15, 2019An important statistic in the historiography of climate policy compares the global market share of fossil fuels from 1988 (the…
