Overcapacity Hits Wind Turbine Market
January 23, 2012The world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer is laying off employees due to over capacity in the market from competition from…
Wind power and the free market
January 4, 2012The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is committed to free-market policy solutions for America’s energy needs. IER has repeatedly argued…
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…
