Making Sense of Levelized Costs
December 22, 2011Levelized costs are a convenient way to compare the costs of various forms of future electrical generation. Similar to a…
Expect Higher Electricity Prices
December 21, 2011State and federal governments keep tampering with electricity markets to make them “greener,” and the result is higher electricity prices…
Exxon predicts U.S. oil imports have peaked
December 14, 2011Exxon Mobil predicts that U.S. oil imports have peaked due to increased domestic oil supplies and a drop in oil…
DOE’s Renewables Failures: They Keep Going and Going and Going…
December 5, 2011Those who endorse the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program tried to explain away the massive Solyndra scandal as one…
Barack Obama: Enron’s Heir
December 2, 2011Ten years ago today, Enron declared bankruptcy. But Enron’s intellectual legacy lives on in the Obama administration as Rob Bradley…
IEA Review Shows Many Developing Countries Subsidize Fossil Fuel Consumption, Creating Artificially Lower Prices
November 23, 2011The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its 2010 estimate of global fossil-fuel consumption subsidies—$409 billion, 36 percent ($109 billion)…
