Could the U.S. Electricity System Become Like Venezuela’s?
April 29, 2016Venezuela has been cutting its electricity to consumers because of huge shortages that the country blames on El Nino, but…
Focus on Capacity Additions Ignores Wind’s Scant Electricity Generation
April 27, 2016This April, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its Annual Market Report for 2015. In the report, the industry…
China Won’t Waste Its Time on Wind Power
April 5, 2016China is building coal-fired plants (about one every 2 days)[i] and nuclear plants to supply its energy needs, but has…
The Climate Change Central Planners
March 28, 2016Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has a wonderful essay in the spring edition of National Affairs. Titled…
Coal Continues to Struggle at Hands of Federal Government
March 21, 2016“Because we’re going to put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business.” Hillary Clinton, Columbus, Ohio,…
New England’s CO2 Emissions Rise as Vermont Yankee is Shuttered
March 2, 2016When Vermont Yankee was set to close, activists such as Bill McKibben claimed that Vermont “is completely capable of replacing…
