Power
Monthly Issue | March 11, 2013
Shattering 50 years of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) late last year ruled that employers must continue to withdraw union dues from employee checks and forward them to…
Most electric utility customers have a hard time assessing the value they are receiving from their utility. John Egan’s article last year—Energy PR—Forget Facts, Show Value—hits on this important point.…
Forget sluggish economies in the United States, the European Union, and certain Asian countries; Mexico has emerged as a lightning rod for international infrastructure investment. As energy investors assess changing…
The topic of the impact of solar storms on our interconnected civilization—particularly on the U.S. electric system—is becoming a hot issue, with a number of new studies, warnings and regulatory…
I hung up the phone, happy for my friend but sad about his company. It was not the first time I had this conversation, nor would it be the last.…
Reading the papers these days you get an idea of what it must have been like to live during the Great Depression. We look back at the 1930s as an…
After every election, there's a mad scramble in Washington over the must-make-it-happen agenda for the newly inaugurated president and Congress. There are welcome signs from the White House's own Material…
A rational national energy policy should (a) transparently balance long-term goals and short-term needs, certainty and risk; (b) continuously re-evaluate legacy policies to make room for new ones; (c) have…
The time has come to shatter some windows, rock some boats, break come crockery, upturn some of the money changers’ tables. It’s time for iconoclasm. These impulses come to mind…
Wholesale electricity prices are in what appears to be a long-term downward spiral, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. Prices across the country were down in 2012,…
