Is Natural Gas the Answer for Electric Utilities?
July 16, 2015Electric utilities have turned to natural gas for electricity generation because of its low prices and because of onerous regulations…
Coal Was King In The U.S. And Is Still King Worldwide
July 10, 2015Ten years ago, U.S. utility industry experts would not have expected coal to rank second to natural gas in electricity…
Nordhaus Unwittingly Shows Flaws in Case for Carbon Tax
June 23, 2015With the Paris UN climate negotiations in December and Senator Whitehouse’s reintroduction of a carbon tax bill, it seems every…
Global Consumption of Fossil Fuels Continues to Increase
June 18, 2015BP recently released its Statistical Review of World Energy 2015[i] and found that consumption of fossil fuels in 2014 continued…
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Ignores New Nuclear as a Compliance Option
June 15, 2015The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA’s Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as…
Conflict of Interest: EPA’s Ozone Rule vs. the CPP
June 9, 2015The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pursuing an aggressive regulatory agenda so sprawling that at least two of its major…
