Recent financial bailouts of nuclear reactors in New York and Illinois highlight the conflict between states’ environmental goals and the integrity of electricity markets. As more states weigh subsidies, debate over their market impact and legality expand.
Carbon Capture’s Clean Coal Ambition
Carbon Capture and Storage has the potential to dramatically reduce the carbon emissions from the burning of coal. Yet the technology’s boosters need to overcome high costs, and major infrastructure challenges, if they’re to make a dent in emissions.
Clearing The Air: Carbon Tax Or Cap And Trade?
Carbon cap and trade and carbon taxation are two very different strategies to address the challenge of greenhouse gas emissions. A look at the political and economic issues that drive each.
Advancing Energy Storage
Energy storage in electricity markets is on the rise, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is weighing in with new rules that could change deployment of storage and distributed energy resources across the country.
The Energy Sector Confronts Cyber Risk
Former U.S. Department of Energy Senior Advisor Bill Hederman explores cybersecurity risk in the energy industry and the role of public policy in protecting critical energy infrastructure.
20 Years Of Electricity Restructuring In Pennsylvania
It has been 20 years since Pennsylvania’s electricity markets opened to competition. Benefits have been many, but pitfalls remain. Authors of a new study on electricity markets in Pennsylvania discuss their findings.
Does the UK’s Hinkley Point Nuclear Project Have a Place in a Future With Cheap Renewables?
“The government needs to keep its options open.”
Can Japan’s Energy Reforms Make Renewable Energy Growth Smarter?
“If interconnection issues aren’t eased and access to wholesale markets isn’t enabled, it isn’t going to be successful in the eyes of consumers.”