Why Wind Power Has Low Economic Value
Michael Goggin, manager of transmission policy at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), posted a second response to my report “Wind Intermittency and the Production… Read More
Green or Not So Green?
By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude… Read More
Will Burning Bunnies Be Part of the Renewable Energy Portfolio?
Because that’s what they’re doing in Sweden: The city of Stockholm shoots thousands of wild rabbits spread across the green spaces of the Swedish capital… Read More
Today’s Calamity: Don’t Forget About Renewable Energy Mandates
It’s easy to forget that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill is not just about cap and trade. There are a number of other problematic provisions buried… Read More
Waxman’s Lower Standards Do Not Reduce Costs to Consumers
In an attempt to win over the public, manufacturers and garner more Congressional support, House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman reduced the short-term… Read More
Throwing Caution to the Wind on Wind Power
25 by 2025. That’s the target proposal for a federally mandated renewable portfolio standard RPS (also called renewable electricity standard RES) in which the federal… Read More
Concerns Loom Large over Global Warming Bill
Republicans and Democrats alike are voicing their concerns over the Clean Energy and Security Act that includes a renewable portfolio standard, federal spending for clean… Read More
Pelosi’s Big Bad Energy Idea
Instead of a bunch of small, bad energy bills, why not have one, large bad energy bill? That seems to be the sentiment coming from… Read More
