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The answer is to remove energy subsidies altogether
Benjamin Zycher writes in the Washington Examiner about the renewable energy industry’s case for getting rid of subsidies for traditional energy sources, and how it harms a good case by then begging...
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We’re already reducing energy emissions. No need to force it with unworkable...
Pop quiz, friends. What do you know about energy-based emissions in North Carolina? They’re a significant and growing problem, and it’s not too soon to call it a crisis. They’re a major contributor to...
View ArticleHow can your ‘almost there’ industry STILL need several decades’ worth of tax...
Let’s take you back to the time of disco dancing, bell bottoms, pet rocks, Farrah Fawcett posters, and popular music performed by artists who not only wrote their own songs, but also played their own...
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At long last, EPA moves to repeal ‘Clean Power Plan’ rule
Utility Dive gives an industry perspective on yesterday’s major news. Following that is a look at where the U.S. and North Carolina are heading in terms of energy emissions. Finally, I provide a brief...
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Misleading poll questions to pressure GOP candidates into cronyism for...
A report in The Washington Examiner takes to task ClearPath Action for asking laughably weighted poll questions in order to pressure Republican candidates with the “coerced outcome that says candidates...
View ArticleTechnological breakthroughs in energy help us, no matter the energy source
For whatever reason, conventional thinking about technological innovation in energy production seems to focus only on renewable technology. It’s as if traditional sources of energy (which are not that...
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Learn to distinguish cronyism from market competition
It’s a crucial distinction to make, because they are entirely opposed. My research update this week dissects Froma Harrop’s op-ed in The News & Observer this week, which showed no awareness of that...
View ArticleUtilityDive asks: Is PURPA done?
A recent Utility Dive article begins: A new bill in Congress could take the teeth out of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, delivering a blow to some renewable energy projects. (The...
View ArticleCato podcast: How renewable energy portfolio standards hike rates on the poor
The Cato Institute is airing a podcast called “How Not to Subsidize Renewable Energy” that explains how “The renewable portfolio standard subsidizes renewable energy in states via higher energy costs...
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Carolina Journal: Wind facility’s interference with Navy radar an ongoing...
Carolina Journal reporting over the years has shown there are serious consequences to how wind facilities affect local communities and military installations. Massive turbines can disrupt military...
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Unlike all the other energy sources, natural gas isn’t a net subsidy-taker
Dan Way wrote in Carolina Journal this week about nuclear power advocates seeking to be recognized — in order to get state subsidization — for being a clean energy source. Nuclear is indeed a...
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What unsustainable energy really looks like
Stephen Moore writes in The Washington Times about the media’s cronyism blind spot when it comes to renewable energy. It’s a familiar subject here. Moore writes: But the idea that renewables are...
View ArticleCarolina Journal tallies the ongoing cost of renewable energy investment tax...
Dan Way reports this morning for Carolina Journal: The state’s renewable energy investment tax credit program expired Dec. 31, 2015. Yet the state paid $454 million in the subsidies the past two years,...
View ArticleDon’t tell the N&O, but there are questions worth asking about the Amazon...
A new report from the renewable energy industry concludes that what society really needs is more government favoritism for the renewable energy industry. Previous industry reports make the same...
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The drive for more renewable energy cronyism is baseless
In my Carolina Journal column today, with chart after chart, I explode the foundational basis of a new renewable energy industry report. That report calls (as usual) for a host of government favoritism...
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Want to think 100 percent renewable energy would work? Then don’t do the math
I’ve written recently on the need to do the math regarding rooftop solar’s promise, not just to consumers but to policymakers, too. Writing in the LA Times, Robert Bryce of Manhattan Institute does the...
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Harvard studies: Wind power needs so much land, it’ll cause warming
Two new research papers from Harvard University scientists find that wind power contributes to global warming. The more wind is brought online to replace traditional energy sources, the more land use...
View ArticleBootleggers, Baptists, and nuclear power
Why don’t we have more nuclear power plants? In seeking an answer, Duke University economics professor Michael Munger builds on Clemson University economist Bruce Yandle’s insight on the regulatory...
View ArticleSolar and wind: The most power you can rely on getting is nothing
Dan Way for Carolina Journal has an important piece today about what solar energy output really means. In its application to build a solar facility on Gov. Roy Cooper’s Nash County property,...
View ArticleThe numbers on Germany’s Energiewende are not good
Michael Shellenberger writes a compelling piece in Forbes about Germany’s disastrous Energiewende results. They were, he argues, inevitable. The headline puts it succinctly: “The Reason Renewables...
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