The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas, and it isn’t even close. In fact, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows the U.S. almost produced…
On Wednesday, May 17, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. Summarizing the report, Utility Dive noted that most of the United States will face an elevated…
On May 17, The Heritage Foundation hosted Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner James Danly to dig into the details of what we know about power grid reliability as the…
High energy prices are more than an inconvenience. They are deadly. A recent article from The Economist suggests that high energy prices in Europe were responsible for 68,000 premature deaths last winter, more than…
It is reassuring to know that at least some people in Washington, D.C. understand the problems our electric grid is currently facing. Testifying before the U.S. Senate, FERC Commissioner Mark Christie warns…
Coal may be a dirty word to climate zealots, but not in North Dakota. Not even in Washington, D.C., for those in the know, given the confirmation of significant reserves…
Ever since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency has schemed to dramatically expand the agency’s grip on waterways, tributaries, wetlands and adjacent lands nationwide.…
According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. The measure, which was drafted in response…
A recent review from New Atlas had some tough pills to swallow for the Ford Lighting, Ford’s first foray in the all-electric truck market, calling the vehicle a “glorified sedan”…
Most Americans know that the Biden administration is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidizing wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles via the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. However,…
Wind turbines require a lot of copper. A recent study from the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the average onshore wind turbine requires about three metric tons of copper for each…
On October 23, 2022, the Colorado Sun published an interesting story titled “The wind turbines on this Colorado farm are 20 years old. Who’s going to take them down?” The story begins in 2000, when…
In August 2022, President Biden signed the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” a $370 billion spending package that will do little to reduce inflation, but it will do a lot to…
In 1968, the biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote: In the April 1970 issue of The Progressive, Ehrlich forecast the existence in 1999 of a ‘United States of North America’ with a population…
If you have a Spotify subscription, I would highly recommend you listen to the Siddarth Kara episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on…
Many residents of the eastern United States received an unwelcome Christmas gift this year: rolling blackouts during cold weather. I received this email on Christmas Eve from Appalachian Power Company,…