Tag: Energy Information Administration
EIA’s assumptions short-change clean energy, and are frequently wrong
Every year, energy nerds breathlessly await the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). As my previous post explained, the AEO is critical because U.S. utilities, as well...
What If The Marcellus Shale Gas Play Doesn’t Pan Out?
For the gas industry and some utilities that are racing to build as much gas infrastructure as possible, there’s a lot riding on a shale gas ‘play’ known as the...
U.S. DOE: Magical Thinking on Future Shale Gas Supplies
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the go-to source for data on electricity, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear, coal, emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Every...
Oklahoma Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Oklahoma State Legislature reached a compromise with the wind energy industry 2015, passing two bills, that would phase out the state’s five-year property tax exemption for wind energy projects and eliminate wind energy’s eligibility...
New Mexico Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The New Mexico State Legislature briefly considered a bill that would freeze the state’s renewable energy standard, but it failed to move through the Senate after passing the House. The Heartland Institute published a blog...
Kansas Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Kansas legislature passed a bill to repeal the state’s renewable energy standard in May 2015. The bill was soon signed by Governor Sam Brownback. But while the bill eliminated the state’s...