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Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated the list of loan guarantee projects on its website. Unlike 2008, when Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs over 10 years by directing taxpayer funds toward renewable energy …

Some lawmakers in Colorado want to increase the cost of electricity for all Coloradoans, especially those in rural areas. Awaiting Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature, SB 252 would require rural electric cooperatives to dramatically increase the amount of electricity generated from …

WASHINGTON D.C. — On reports today that the Bureau of Land Management will cancel all oil and natural gas lease sales in California this year, allegedly due to fiscal strains experienced because of sequester cuts, IER Senior Vice President Daniel …

WASHINGTON D.C. — IER Senior Vice President Daniel Kish was quoted in a Bloomberg news article today on Nobel Prize winner and left-wing nouveau riche, former Vice President Al Gore. The article, listed as the top story on the Drudge …

The tide may be turning somewhat for coal and natural gas generation with coal regaining some of the market that it lost in 2012 due to low natural gas prices. Natural gas prices delivered to the electric power sector averaged …

IER provides future levelized costs of electric generating technologies based on analyses from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) for the Annual Energy Outlook 2013 here. Levelized costs represent the present value of the total cost of building and operating …

We all know of the shale oil boom in the United States that has produced an explosion in domestic oil production primarily on private and state lands and helped to decrease our dependence on oil imports. Hydraulic fracturing and directional …

WASHINGTON D.C. — A survey released today by the Institute for Energy Research reflects growing sentiments among American voters that more transparency from the federal government is needed. IER President Thomas J. Pyle released the following statement concerning the survey …

British leaders are making some truly bizarre decisions in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and comply with European renewable electricity mandates. For example, they are converting a coal-fired plant to burn wood chips that are shipped from the …

Can Ernie Moniz help the Department of Energy (DOE) to pick winning technologies? The agency has not fared well during the Obama Administration in dishing out loans and loan guarantees, losing taxpayer money not only to solar manufacturing companies like …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – IER State and Regulatory Affairs Director Dan Simmons testifies today before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources in a hearing titled “U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement and Steps Needed for Implementation.” The text of …

Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources

Committee on Natural Resources

Hearing on U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement and Steps Needed for Implementation

April 25, 2013

Testimony of Daniel R Simmons

The Institute for Energy Research

The Institute for Energy …

Americans are led to believe that Europe is awash in wind and solar power, but the renewable most consumed is wood, says the Economist.[i] According to the Economist, wood, the fuel of preindustrial societies, represents about half of all …

A study from the Journal of Power Sources indicated that by 2030 the grid could be powered almost entirely using a mix of wind (both on- and off-shore), solar and grid-scale energy storage, and that this grid would be both …

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its third annual report exposing unnecessary duplication and overlapping programs throughout the federal government.[i] The report outlines more than $95 billion spent per year on duplicative programs and inefficient practices that is …

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently categorized financial support for fossil fuel and renewable energy tax preferences by fuel area for fiscal year 2013. From the CBO analysis, in 2013:

-Renewable energy financial support from tax preferences is expected to …

WASHINGTON D.C. — IER President Thomas Pyle published an opinion piece today on National Journal’s energy expert blog in response to the question, “Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Too Risky.” Pyle, a frequent contributor to the expert blog, notes in …

WASHINGTON D.C. — IER Director of Regulatory and State Affairs Daniel Simmons was cited in a FOX News article today on the Federal Government’s various wind energy initiatives. Simmons’s comments demonstrate the duplicitous nature of the government’s 82 wind-related initiatives …

This week, President Obama’s nominee to succeed energy secretary Steven Chu will face questions before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in which senators are expected to pose a number of questions to Dr. Ernest Moniz about his …