Amidst Dreams of Green Energy, Regulators and Industry Warn of Summer Blackouts
If you want to keep the lights on, it might be a good time to shop for a generator.
If you want to keep the lights on, it might be a good time to shop for a generator.
Land-hungry biomass, wind, and solar power are set to occupy an area equivalent of the size of the European Union by 2050.
The House passed a resolution that will reimpose tariffs on solar panels from China, while the EPA sits on applications for carbon capture technology that may soon be mandatory.
Green dreams are no substitute for good planning and reliable electricity.
"When we look at solar and wind around the world, it always correlates to rising prices and declining reliability."
The credits may be well-intentioned, but they will distort the market and lead to a windfall for U.S. companies.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Carbon-free power isn’t free of hard choices.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
"Engineers are really good at making things better, but they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."
Onerous environmental permitting regulations make rapid renewable energy deployment in the United States a "fantasy."
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
The Port of Albany will forgo more than $29 million in federal funding for the delayed $300 million project.
The West Virginia senator had proposed a series of exceedingly modest tweaks designed to speed up the yearslong environmental review process for new energy projects.
Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.
The market already is moving in the EV direction, so the state should just let companies do their thing.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
Wonderful news for California's economy and consumers!
Texas A&M University's Andrew Dessler vs. Steven Koonin, former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy
America gets about 42 megawatts of power from offshore wind. Another 18,000 megawatts are currently tied up in permitting battles.
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
A push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
Unrealistic policy and dependency on fickle neighbors like Russia are no substitute for working power plants.
Blaming oil companies and Vladimir Putin for our current energy woes is dishonest and unhelpful.
Here's hoping we don't wind up with more of the spending and favoritism that's become so common.
Coal, oil, and gas have contributed to global warming, but we can deal with their impact while letting them bring billions more up to middle-class living standards.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
Teutonic carbon dioxide emissions and electricity prices are projected to increase as a result.
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
Without attention to the onerous permitting process for offshore wind and other energy projects, efforts will be plagued by costly delays.
The White House is undoing changes to the National Environmental Policy Act that were supposed to speed up the delivery of infrastructure projects.
A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
Secretary of State’s office verifies his opponents have gathered enough valid signatures.
The vast majority of the shortfall is from failures at fossil fuel-powered plants.
Campaign promises about green energy often obscure real-world constraints.
The state's electricity grid operators warned in 2019 that power shortages might become increasingly common when heat waves hit in the coming years.
Yes, and it's only going to get cheaper.
Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.
Activists oppose a huge source of reliable, climate-friendly electricity that could have prevented the rolling blackouts in the Golden State.
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
It's uncanny how solving climate change just happens to require the progressives' longstanding economic agenda.
In his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Shellenberger argues that science doesn't support doomsayers' claims.
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
The solar industry has benefited from "temporary" tax credits for decades. These might finally be allowed to lapse.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solar investment tax credit.
An interesting proposal for an energy-water corridor along the U.S.-Mexico border that might even pay for itself.
Activist group finally recognizes that it can't achieve its energy and climate goals without nuclear power.
New report declares world must be off fossil fuels entirely by 2050.