Archive: Blog
2018
2017
- Is Tesla Doomed?
- What’s ‘Resilience’ When it Comes to Power?
- Public Outreach Is Needed to Gain Support for the Nuclear Power Industry
- CPP Repeal Likely Won’t Help Coal Much, Might Hurt Nukes
- Two Takes on Comments to FERC-DOE Resilience Proposal
- What Can Save the Staggering U.S. Nuclear Industry?
- Rick Perry’s Order to FERC Is Fraudulent
- How Drones Are Helping the Energy Sector
- Is DOE’s Advanced Reactor Program a Bust?
- A Fascinating Early Wind Power Generation System
- Former Sen. Pete Domenici, Key Energy Legislator, Dies at 85
- Blackout: A Coming Dystopia?
- DOE Grid Study: Will it Make a Difference?
- FERC: Back in Business
- Paris Accord: Fact or Fiction?
- Trump Energy Nominees Not Very Controversial
- Tony Clark on Electric Market Turmoil: Be True to Your School
- Despite limits, Li-ion Batteries Win Market Competition
- FERC: And Then There Was One
- Red Team/Blue Team Climate Challenge: ‘Let the Games Begin’
- The Smart Grid’s Missing Ingredients
- Experts Debunk 100% Renewables Decarbonization
- Warming Skeptic Challenges Climate Science Education
- Glenn Schleede, Energy Policy Expert, Dead at 83
- Nuclear Farewell?
- Is Fuel Diversity a False God?
- Trump’s FERC Inaction Continues, Suggesting a Policy
- Trump’s Infrastructure Failure at FERC
- States and Feds May Face Policy Donnybrook
- Is Blockchain a Key to Distributed Energy and Grid Modernization?
- Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Designs
- Molten Salt Reactor Claims Melt Down Under Scrutiny
- Harold Denton, Three Mile Island Hero, Dies at 80
- Oroville Dam a Major Renewable Energy Asset
- ‘Pausebuster’: Did NOAA’s Tom Karl Cook Climate Data?
- How Can FERC Function Without a Quorum?
- The Political Kabuki of Senate Confirmation
- Feds Hammer Asian Engineer for Alleged Spying for China
- As a U.S. Business, Nuclear Power Stinks
2016
- New Coal Rules Give Trump Political Opportunities
- Is There an Explanation for Trump’s Picks?
- Trump: Bad News for U.S. Nuclear Power?
- Duke Settles 2012 Progress Energy Merger Suit
- Barclays Backs Gates Twins in FERC Trading Dispute
- Palazzos of Power: Eye Candy for Electric Power History Buffs
- Matt Ridley’s ‘Lukewarmist’ Manifesto
- PUCO’s FirstEnergy Bailout: What Does it Mean?
- GM’s Bolt Passes Tesla’s Model 3 to Market
- Magical Thinking about Energy Storage
- Illinois Nuke Rescue Package is Alive but Sketchy
- Apache’s West Texas Find Further Discredits Malthusianism
- Two Books for Your Labor Day Weekend
- WaPo Discovers: Intermittency Bites Renewables and Boosts Gas
- Thomas A. Edison Comes to Statuary Hall
- Clean Coal Technology Continues to Suffer Setbacks
- RFF Economist Stabbed to Death in Baltimore
- Nuclear Renaissance? A Stanford Discussion
- Another Fusion Failure?
- Pie in the Energy Sky
- An Engineering Critique of Climate Policy
- FERC Protests Make No Sense
- What a Wonderful Nuke Might That Be?
- FERC, Ohio, and Andre Porter
- Chernobyl and Nuclear Hubris
- Has Ivanpah Slammed the Door on Concentrated Solar?
- Ohio Adopts 'No-Fault Capitalism' for AEP, First Energy
- Gallup: Warming Concerns Up as Nuke Support Moves Down
- Hillary, Bernie, and Fracking
- Who’s Killing Coal? It Isn’t Obama
- Scalia’s Death and Obama’s Clean Power Plan
- Tritium Politics in New York
- More Political Maneuvering Coming to FERC
- Nevada’s Solar Move Makes Economic Sense
- Will Ohio Choose Re-regulation Over Competition?
- Obama’s Energy Record: Markets Beat Government
2015
- What Does Paris Mean?
- The Vision (or Hubris) of David Crane Fails a Market Test
- In Paris, It’s ‘Straight Cash, Homey’
- FERC Protects Retail Customer Electric Filings
- Entergy Heads to the Merchant Egress
- Will FERC Bar Retail Customers From Electricity Cases?
- Washington Post Rolls Out a Shallow Series on Electricity
- Is Entergy Moving Out of Nukes?
- A Fine History of the Modern U.S. Electricity System
- U.S. Legacy Enrichment Program Headed to the Trash Heap?
- The Dopiness of Sarah Palin
- Federal Prosecutors Indict Three in Green Energy Ponzi Scheme
- Exelon Ends August with Gut Punches of Unknown Severity
- DOE Red Team Study Frowns on MOX
- For SMRs, Neither Small Nor Modular Works
- Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Irrelevant and Expensive
- We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Energy Policy
- Obama Community Solar: Where’s the Beef?
- Puerto Rico and its Utility at the Financial Brink
- It’s Long Past Time to Nix MOX
- Is Wind’s Climate Contribution Overstated?
- Lithium Ion Risks, Physical and Financial
- Good News (and Mostly Bad) for Nuclear Power
- Politics and Federal Research: The Nexus
- Are Smart Homes Cyber Attack Risks?
- Can Tesla Tame the Duck Curve?
- Remember the Volt?
- Michael Bloomberg Gets Something Right
- The Map that Changed the World Bicentennial
- The Mystery of Methane Hydrates
- Climate McCarthyism or Just Stupidity?
- On Climate Debate, Skepticism and Public Intellectuals
- Powhatan Strikes Back
- Fixed Solar Fees Are Tesla's Best Friend and a Utility Own Goal
- Latest U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Less than Meets the Eye?
- New Doubts on Climate Models
- Cuban Revolucion Energetica?
- Cheap Oil Won’t Kill Shale
- Vermont Yankee’s Contribution to Environmental History
- Is Shale the Answer for Nuke Waste?
2014
- Will Winter Disrupt PRB Coal Deliveries Again?
- FERC to Look at Winter Coal Deliveries to Power Plants
- Is Ivanpah Going on the Federal Dole?
- EPA’s Greenhouse Plan and Reliability: Train Wreck?
- Blankenship Indictment Isn’t a Conviction
- Ozone Rules: Are the Costs Too High?
- Why Google Gave Up on Green
- Pielke Writes the Book on Climate and Disasters
- What’s FERC Got to Do with It?
- Will GOP’s Wave Revive Yucca Mountain?
- Green Greenbacks Fail to Sway Elections
- GOP Sweep Impacts Power at State Level
- With Macfarlane Out, Wither the NRC?
- Bob Fri, Energy and Environmental Policy Guru, Dies at 78
- Beyond Common Sense
- Love, War, and Politics 2: Coal and Kentucky
- Where’s the Heat?
- Love, War, and Politics
- The Truth about Fracking
- MISO Confronts Capacity Problems
- Who Runs U.S. Grid Security?
- Deadlock Strikes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Dump ‘Nukespeak’ to Reach Broader Audiences
- Can FERC Nominee Honorable Beat the Clock?
- Seismic Specter Arises Again at Diablo Canyon
- Could FERC Implement a Carbon Price Equivalent?
- At DOE’s 37th Birthday, Was it a Wise Creation?
- Will the Smart Cloud Bypass the Smart Grid?
- Norris Says ‘Arrivederci FERC’ and Heads to Rome
- Is John Norris leaving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?
- Renewables Fail Badly in Brookings Cost Analysis
- NAS panel criticizes basics of U.S. nuclear safety approach
- Closed Kewaunee nuke has a buyer, but no seller
- Climate Hype Discredits Journalists and Activists
- Gina McCarthy’s Thin Skin on the Origins of the Obama Greenhouse Regs
- The Unintended Political Consequences of Obama’s Global Warming Policy
- Will the Smart Grid Become the Annoying, Vulnerable Grid?
- The Ups and Downs of U.S. Nuclear Power
- Iceland’s Uniqueness Extends to Electricity
- What China and Other Nations Can Learn from U.S. Shale Gas Fracking Experience
- How Much Energy Will the 2014 World Cup Consume?
- Making Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
- Will DR Order Trump FERC’s Regional Transmission Regime
- EPA Carbon Plan Begins an Uncertain Process
- Norman Bay Should Not be FERC Chairman
- Rábago Right Choice for Pace Center
- McCarthyism and the Climate Debate?
- Will Modi Electrify India?
- Intervenors Urge Caution from FERC on CAISO-PacifiCorp Energy Imbalance Market
- EPA Mismanagement Revisited
- DOE’s Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Congressional D&D Deception that Robs Nuclear Consumers
- Terrible Twins Challenge FERC on Enforcement Policies
- Public Power’s Alex Radin Dies at 92
- Obama’s Latest FERC Nominee May Have Problems
- Rick Perry’s Approach to Federal Funds for Texas
- Jim Schlesinger’s Mixed Legacy of Accomplishment
- Dodging the Physical Solar Assault
- When it Comes to Mismanagement, EPA Takes the Bureaucratic Cake
- Carnegie Mellon Boffins’ Blast from the Past: Why Renewable Portfolio Standards Stink
- Obama’s FY2015 Budget Would Halt MOX Funds
- A Former Republican Congressman Dismisses the Electric Grid
- The Political Language of Energy Obfuscation
- DOE MOX Project Looks Like a Failure
- The Truth about Skepticism Revealed
- The Nukes-Greenhouse Connection in New York
- Winter Weather and Grid Attacks Occupy FERC's Attention
- Judith Curry: Facing Climate Realities in the Modern, not Model, World
- Eco-Catastrophism and Cloud Cuckoo Land
- Book Review: Fury of the Fifth Angel
- Let the Vogtle DOE Loan Vanish
- LaFleur for FERC Chair, Hempling for the Vacancy
- My Top 10 Predictions for 2013, Part II
- 60 Minutes Gets it Mostly Right about ‘Cleantech’
- Grading My Top 10 Predictions for 2013, Part I
- Senate Energy Committee Transformed?
2013
- World Bank and Nukes? Much Ado about Nothing
- Fighting Bovine Flatulence
- Peak Oil, Not
- Why Britain Didn’t Beat the U.S. to the Atomic Bomb
- EPA’s Tone-Deaf ‘Listening’ Tour
- Fracking-based Methane Leakage Determined to be Minimal
- Hydropower Regulation: A Bipartisan Success Story
- Chile's High-Flying Wind Plan
- Where's the Warming? II
- Natural Gas and Electricity Don’t Mix (Yet)
- Equal Time
- The Undoing of Ron Binz
- Of Cybersecurity Frameworks, Requirements, and Compliance
- Tepco Must Go, But What Comes Next?
- Entergy Abandons Vermont Yankee, Is Indian Point Next?
- The Extreme Nonsense of Extreme Weather
- The False God of Policy
- Why the Appeals Court Can’t Jump-Start Yucca Mountain
- DC Court Orders NRC to Resume Yucca Mtn
- The Nominations Are Open: What is the Worst Government Energy Website?
- Obama’s Climate Action Plan: A View from the West
- What’s NOT in Obama’s Climate Plan
- Bad Karma and The Joker
- San Onofre’s Inevitable Shutdown
- PM2.5: More Than Just Dust
- Nuke Waste: Same Old Same Old, Won’t Work Won’t Work
- Kemper Cost Rises for Southern Company
- Japan’s Nuclear Decisions
- How Canada Blew Lobbying on Keystone XL
- What Is Behind the Obama Punt on Greenhouse Regs?
- No Legs for Green Spam
- Cove Point Joins List of LNG Export Front-Runners
- A123 Becomes B456. No Kidding.
- Give Ernie Moniz a Break on Policy Pronouncements
- Snowquester, Sequester, and Farce
- Will CB&I buy Westinghouse?
- How many nukes are under Construction? Beats us
- Steven Chu resigns and a tree falls in the forest
- Follow the disappearing nukes
2012
- Perciasepe to EPA, Markey to Senate?
- How the Political Wind Blows on Renewable Subsidies
- Long Island Ironies and Cuomo Pere et Fils
- Three-Dimensional Musical Chairs in Washington
- Big Coal Shoots at King, Misses
- Obama, Take Two
- Could Cap-and-Trade Have Cut It?
- Cato Crushes Romney on Energy R&D
- Another Fusion Failure Bites the Dust, Maybe
- Is San Onofre Ever Coming Back?
- Energy Politics of Republicrats and Democans
- A Bumpy Road for Nukes
- Too Soon to Make Sense of the India Blackouts
- Left-Right Cabal on Carbon Taxes?
- PRB Coal Leasing Scandal Redux
- California Dreamin' Becoming a Reality?
- Neither Party Can Let USEC Fail
- Getting a Piece of the Pilgrim Pie
- Plans Could Turn the Internet, and Smart Grid, Over to the UN
- FERC Audit Slams NERC Practices
- Wind Farms, Hot Air, and the Perils of Scientific Publishing
- Damn the Data, Full Steam Ahead
- Say Goodbye, Commissioner Svinicki
- How About ‘None of the Above?’
- EPA Greenhouse Rule: Going for the Capillaries
- Will Natural Gas Inventories Hit Their Caps This Fall?
- Energy Efficiency and the End of the Free Lunch
- Bad News for San Onofre
- Climate Science: A Super-Wicked Mess
- Conflating Energy and Climate Policy: Road to Nowhere
- Do Old Coal Plants Ever Die?
- The Year in Cars: It's About Black, Not Green
- SOTU: Who Needs Energy Policy?
- Obama Names Tony Clark to FERC
- GE Earnings and the U.S. Economy: Up, Down or Sideways?
- Obama Stumbles into Keystone XL Trap
- Climate and the Wandering Albatross
2011
- The Little Breeder that Could
- FERC Puts Duke-Progress Merger in Doubt
- Guest Blog: Rush Limbaugh, Unlikely Solar Hero
- MIT Report: Both Irrelevant and Smart on Grid Issues
- Where Lights and Lungs Meet
- Abolish This!
- RFF: No Discrepancies between USGS and EIA Shale Gas Estimates
- The Perils of Nuclear DIY
- Guest Blog: Obama Administration's Electric Transmission Announcement
- Tales of Adventures in Foreign Investment
- Guest Blog: At CIA, Climate Change is a Secret
- Will DOE Punt Transmission Siting to FERC?
- Another Scientific Warming Skeptic Makes News
- Reports: France Suffers Nuclear Explosion
- The Lessons of Solyndra
- Guest Blog: How NOT to Communicate with Utility Customers During Outages
- New Study Debunks Drought-Driven Food Collapse
- CERN CLOUD Experiment Challenges Climate Models
- What Polar Bear Decline?
- Ex-CIA chief Slams Smart Grid
- New Spencer Research Challenges Climate Models
- Blue Ribbon Commission Delivers Nothing New on Nuke Waste
- Administration Offers Fluff on Grid Policy
- Khosla Clobbers Conventional Wisdom
- Lights Out at FERC
- Bryson to Head Commerce Department?
- Bin Laden Buffoonery from Bill Richardson
- The Tired Obama Attack on Gasoline Prices
- Government Winners Are Often Losers
- Don't Close the Government, Abolish DOE
- A Short History of Nuclear Power in Japan
- Japan Nuclear Problems Escalate
- What's Happening in Japan
- Freeman Dyson, Still Brilliant After All These Years
- Will NRG Hit the DOE Jackpot?
- Can Steven Chu Lobby?
- Book Review: Scott Hempling on Regulators
- Not Your Father's Energy Committee
- EV's? Here Come the Hydraulic Hybrids
- China Nuke Dreams: Paper Dragon?
- Game Over: FERC 1, WSJ 0
2010
- Upton Wins Energy and Commerce Chair, GOP Rebuffs Right and Doc Hastings
- Alaskanfusion in Senate Seat
- House GOP: There Will Be Blood
- GOP Won't Cut Federal Spending
- Does EPA Departure Signal Climate Change?
- EPR: Reactor in Crisis
- At DOE, Leaders Are Irrelevant
- Obama Panders on Alaska Land
- MIT Report Buries Breeders, Reprocessing
- The End of the Climate War
- Election Means Major Energy Policy Changes
- Fear Space Weather, Not Climate Change
- Quacks like a duck; Poops like a duck; Limps like a duck
- Loan Guarantees? What Stinkin' Loan Guarantees
- Warming to Swamp US in Mexicans?
- Reid Recognizes the Corpse in the Chamber
- Insanity and DOE Winners and Losers
- Who Will Replace Bob Byrd?
- Energy R&D is No Panacea
- Murkowski Vote Dooms Senate Legislation
- A Challenge to Climate True Believers
- Times Wields Silent Hatchet on DOE's Chu
- Where the NAS Goes Wrong on Warming
- Entabulator Rescues Renewables
- Arizona Pol Grandstands on Calif. Power
- Plan B for Global Warming
- Rules and Fools: EPA and CEI
- Sports Betting and Financial Derivatives
- Scientific Spam on Climate Health Effects
- Charlie Brown and the Senate Energy Bill
- Bye, Bye Blankenship
- Greenpeace Flies Under the Cloud
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Wave Goodbye
- Pushing the Future into the Future
- Curmudgeon's View: Waste, DOE, and New Reactors
- Wind and Property Values: Relation Unknown
- What to Make of Climate Science
- Fraud in Calif. Air Board Rules
- Is GE's Immelt Headed Out the Door
- White House Chews on Chu's Nuclear Budget
- The Slouching South Texas Nuclear Project
- More on Peer Review and Climategate
2009
- The Plug-in Dead-end
- Energy roundup
- Will the Smart Grid Compromise Privacy?
- Kick the Can on Energy Policy: Bravo
- Yucca Mountain is Dead and Gone
- Smart Grid Grants May be Stupid
- Is ANWR drilling key to climate legislation?
- Nuke Notes: New names for the NRC and another, lame poll on public support for nuclear power
- How to Cherry-Pick Recent Climate Data
- Ohio Repeats Maryland’s ‘Take this Bulb and Shove It’ Fiasco
- Nuke Waste Confidence: A Confluence of Ironies
- Don’t Let the Dim Bulbs Prevail in the Lighting Market
- Climate Policy High Road and Low Road
- Environmental Myth No. 2- PCBs cause human cancers
- Environmental myths part 1 -- EMF
- On the Death of Mary Travers
- Roundup: Energy Legislation, California, and Trash-to-Cash
- Let's Get Real about Health Care
- Are the Wheels Coming Off Climate Legislation?
- Bobby Hefner Basks in Gas Bonanza
- Health Care Counts for Obama, Energy Doesn’t
- Global warming has been very, very good to me
- 'Geoengineering' the Warming Response?
- When Congress Comes Marching Home Again
- Zito, Gretzky, and Renewables
- USEC: Is the Enrichment Company Done?
- Bring on that Global Warming
- New Yorker: Global Warming Strikes Hell
- Bucket Truck Dreamin'
- Climate bill faces uncertain future in Senate
- My Smart Grid Experience
- Skepticism Rises on Plug-In Hybrids
- What nuclear renaissance?
- Polling on warming no surprise
- Nuke Waste Confidence: A Confluence of Ironies
- FERC's Wellinghoff bloviates on wind
- EPA CO2 poposal is anti-life and anti-science
- Is a smart grid stupid?
- Will nano-bio-batteries save plug-in bhbrids?
- Sparkling future for carbon capture?
- NYT Profiles Freeman Dyson, polymath and climate skeptic
- Steven Chu: His Irrelevance
- Will technology lead to ANWR drilling?
- Obama administration's renewable delusions
- Thoughts of an Orwell fan
- Feds are transmission obstacles
- Will Happer: We need more CO2
- Yucca Mountain near death
- S.C. Republicans squabble over coal
- Stimulus or political business as normal?
- Schleede: Buy bulbs, not wind, for stimulus
- Former Entergy exec Packer may get NRC post
- Electric car vaporware
- New congressman defines 'poser' and 'poseur'
2008
- It all began with Enron
- Obama, Cabinet government, and John Holdren
- Another downside to wind power
- Obama to make energy and environment picks
- It's the name game at DOE
- Methane hydrates: Gold's predictions vindicated
- Power politics: Waxman v. Dingell in commerce committee
- The "Name Game" begins in Washington
- More confounding hurricane science
- Can termites chew their way to ethanol?
- Local politics reroutes the PATH project
- Expect big-time spending in a new administration
- Sarah Palin’s Arctic: hot or cold?
- McCain, Palin Ticket Doesn’t Really Dig Coal
- Loan guarantee gridlock
- Iced in by global warming
- The meaning of Kyoto's failure
- OBE: Energy policy in Washington
- "Green" gasoline?
- Where's Sam Bodman
- Thomas (Malthus) Friedman
- Buffett buys Constellation
- Coal contines to flex its muscles
- The madness of hybrids
- My friends: the lies of McCain and Obama
- Weather and climate: what's the connection?
- Coal continues to clobber wind
- Whatever happened to LNG?
