NERC: Rapid Retirement of Coal and Nuclear Units Could Cause Grid Instability
January 11, 2019A December 2018 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) indicates that acceleration of coal and nuclear plant…
Virginia Approves an Offshore Wind Project
December 13, 2018Virginia recently set a statewide goal of building 5 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2028 and it plans to develop…
China Has the World’s Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet
December 7, 2018As of the end of 2017, China had over half of the world’s total ownership of new energy vehicles (NEV)—those…
Carbon Tax Update, December 2018
December 1, 2018Welcome to the Carbon Tax Ticker Our final Ticker of 2018 will span a lot of carbon tax territory. Below…
Popular Analysis of the National Climate Assessment Misleads the Public on the Economics of Climate Change
November 29, 2018The Executive Branch’s recently released Volume II of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a massive document that is being…
Germany Plans to Build an LNG Facility and to Buy U.S. LNG
November 19, 2018The U.S. predominance in energy production is reshaping the world’s geopolitical situation, enabling the U.S. to strengthen economic ties with…
