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(in)Dependence Day 2022 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/1/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Energy independence has been an aspirational goal of the US for decades. However, the US actually achieved that goal in the period from 2017-2020 as the result of the application of US ingenuity and the encouragement of a supportive federal...

(in)Dependence Day 2023 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/4/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The United States energy independence achieved in 2020 has been sacrificed on the altar of climate change, terminated with malice as part of an effort to “end fossil fuels”. This effort would ultimately make the entire US energy...

100 Ways Biden and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas - Highlighted Article

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  • 9/22/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: American Energy Alliance

By: Thomas Pyle

Date: May 26, 2022

 

100 Ways Biden and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas

 

Joe Biden and the leadership of the Democratic party have a plan for...

150 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas - Highlighted Article

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  • 6/8/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy


From: Institute for Energy Research

By: Thomas J. Pyle

Date: May 23, 2023

 

150 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas


President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have a plan ...

200 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas - Highlighted Article

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  • 4/11/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy


From: IER

By: Thomas J. Pyle

Date: March 7, 2024


200 Ways the Biden Administration and Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas


President Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce ...

2023 - Year in Review - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 12/26/23 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The Administration war on fossil fuels continues, with reduced lease sales, lease cancellations, new emissions rules for electric powerplants and gasoline and diesel vehicles and electric vehicle mandates.

The Administration has less than ...

2024 - The Year Ahead - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 1/2/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Altruism dies when it costs.

The promise of the transition from a fossil fuel energy economy to a renewable energy economy was and is lower energy prices and an improved environment. That promise is clearly broken irreparably. Energy ...

2024 North American Energy Inventory - Highlighted Article

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  • 6/20/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: IER

Date: May 14, 2024


2024 North American Energy Inventory


In 2011, IER released the first edition of the North American Energy Inventory. At the time, the U.S. energy situation looked far different than it does today. ...

2024 – The Year in Review - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 12/24/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The year 2024 was a year of growing awareness of the societal effects of “Net Zero by 2050” and of growing resistance to elements of government energy and climate policies intended to achieve “Net Zero by 2050”.

The...

2025 – The Year Ahead - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 12/31/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Niels Bohr

In 2025,the past is unlikely to be prologue. President elect Trump is reportedly prepared to sign ~300 Executive Orders (EOs) “on day one”. (Sounds ...

A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy - Highlighted Article

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  • 5/12/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Gatestone Institute

By: Francis Menton

Date: April 25, 2022

 

A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy

 

When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, ...

A New Paradigm - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 1/31/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Electric grids have demonstrated the ability to adapt to some fraction of intermittent renewable generation, as long as there is sufficient dispatchable generation available to meet contemporaneous grid demand when the intermittent ...

A Rational Transition - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 6/4/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The Administration has set the nation on a rapid transition to an “all-electric everything” energy economy powered predominantly by intermittent renewable energy. The goal is to complete this transition by 2050. There is ...

A ‘Plan B’ for addressing climate change and the energy transition - Highlighted Article

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  • 3/31/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Climate Etc.

By: Judith Curry

Date: March 17, 2022

 

A ‘Plan B’ for addressing climate change and the energy transition

 

I have a new article published in the latest issue of International Affairs ...

Abandon Fossil Fuels, Empower China - Highlighted Article

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  • 8/24/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Watts Up With That

By: Don Ritter

Date: August 1, 2023


Abandon Fossil Fuels, Empower China


Autocratic Producers (primarily Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Russia, Iran, Qatar, Venezuela and China) and certain democratic (or ...

Achieving Net Zero: A report from a putative delivery agency - Highlighted Article

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  • 3/17/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: The Global Warming Policy Forum

By: Michael Kelly

Date: March 2022

 

Achieving Net Zero: A report from a putative delivery agency

 

Preface

I imagine that I have been appointed the first CEO of a new agency ...

All Goal and No Plan - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 2/17/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 21 (COP21) in Paris, France produced the Paris Accords, a non-binding agreement under which the participating nations agreed to take actions necessary to achieve a goal...

All-Electric Everything - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 5/14/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The Administration’s All-Electric Everything goal would require the addition of approximately 4,800 GW of storage supported rating plate capacity renewable generation with a capacity factor of approximately 30%, depending on the ...

All-Electric Storage - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 4/30/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The US Administration has established a goal of transitioning all energy end uses in the economy to electric end uses by 2050. This would be a massive undertaking, requiring the application of currently non-existent technology, particularly...

Alternative Approaches - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 8/23/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

There are fundamentally two approaches to the adoption of new technology. The more common approach has been to introduce and market the product, process, or service embodying the new technology and allow the market to adopt the new ...

Are fossil-fuel CO2 emissions good or bad? - Highlighted Article

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  • 9/8/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Watts Up With That

By: Andy May

Date: August 30, 2022

 

Are fossil-fuel CO2 emissions good or bad?


This is the transcript, with minor edits to get it into blog post format, of my keynote speech to the Division of ...

Baseload Replacement - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/19/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Baseload powerplants operate continuously at, or close to, their rated capacity to meet the continuous demand on the electric grid. Nuclear power plants are typically operated as baseload plants. Some coal power plants are also operated as ...

Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters - Highlighted Article

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  • 1/17/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: The Washington Times

By: Matthew Daly

Date: January 6, 2025

 

Biden, in 11th hour action, bans new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters


WASHINGTON — President Biden is moving to ban new ...

California Wildfire Lawfare - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 3/17/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

An appropriate topic for any discussion of lawfare, whether lawsuits alleging violation of existing laws or legislation leading to new law, is the issue of standards of evidence.

Standards of evidence refer to the amount of evidence or ...

Capacity Factors - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 5/2/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

 

The US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration chart below is arguably accurate but inarguably misleading.

 


Capacity Factor by Energy Source in 2020

 


The capacity factors shown for both wind and solar, while they are the actual percentage...

Capacity Factors - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 10/1/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Capacity factor:  The ratio of the electrical energy produced by a generating unit for the period of time considered to the electrical energy that could have been produced at continuous full power operation during the same period. (EIA...

Cautionary Tales - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 2/24/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The consensed climate science community and their allies in government, environmental organizations and the media are focused on Net Zero by 2050.  They assert that solar and wind can power an economical, stable and reliable electric ...

China’s “Long Game” - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 9/6/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

China is aggressively pursuing economic development, including construction of numerous coal generating stations, steelmaking facilities and cement kilns. These actions, while inconsistent with the goal of the Paris Accords, are consistent ...

Classes of DEFRs - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 9/24/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

It is broadly, though not universally, acknowledged that a Net Zero electric grid powered predominantly by intermittent renewable generation sources such as wind and solar would require support from dispatchable generation sources to &ldquo...

Climate Change Extremes - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 2/7/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.

The Merry Minuet, Sheldon Harnick


Mother Nature has been providing the earth with numerous types of severe weather ...

Climate Change Fascism - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 11/29/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Fascism
1: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe ...

Climate Change Playbook - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/12/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

It appears that the White House and at least two of the Executive Branch Agencies are not on the same page of the climate change “playbook”. The Administration has clearly enunciated goals of eliminating coal use by 2030, ...

Climate Model Bias Series - Highlighted Series

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  • 3/28/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Watts Up With That

By: Andy May

Date: February 28 - March 13, 2024


Climate Model Bias Series 1-7

 

Climate Model Bias 1: What is a Model? - February 28, 2024

Climate Model Bias 2: Modeling Greenhouse Gases - March ...

Climate Narratives - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 10/17/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Several narratives have evolved around the issue of climate change. The narratives originate in the science, but focus on different aspects of the science and different interpretations of its meaning.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Climate Policy Priorities 2025 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 1/27/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Current US climate policy is aligned with the UN climate objectives embodied in the 2015 Paris Accords. It is focused on Net Zero by 2050, “All-electric Everything” by 2050, ending the use of fossil fuels, transitioning to an ...

Comparing Power Generation Technologies - Highlighted Article

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  • 12/19/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy


From: edmhdotme

By: Ed Hoskins

Date: October 15, 2024

 


Comparing Power Generation Technologies


Introduction
The Industrial Revolution and the exploitation of fossil fuels has provided and can continue to provide an ample ...

Contract Requirements - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 5/19/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

“Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make ...

Costing the Green Grid: Current and Future Technology - Highlighted Paper

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  • 2/8/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

 

From: Net Zero Watch

By: Andrew Montford

Date: January 26, 2024


Costing the Green Grid: Current and Future Technology


Executive summary

A recent Royal Society report claimed the electricity grid could be decarbonised without ...

Curiouser and Curiouser

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  • 8/31/21 at 3:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Strange decisions are being made by numerous global governments which have committed under the Paris Accords to reduce CO2 emissions in an effort to limit the increase in the global average temperature anomaly to 1.5°C.

China is ...

Current Storage Deficit - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 4/9/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

In a summary of a recent peer-reviewed paper, the principal author stated that an electric grid predominantly powered by intermittent renewables such as wind and solar would require storage approximately equal to 25% of annual generation to...

CVOW (Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind) & Storage - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 11/8/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Dominion Energy has proposed to build Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) a 176 wind turbine farm off the Virginia coast. The Virginia Legislature had predetermined that such a project was in the public interest. The Virginia State ...

Data Centers & AI - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 12/17/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

Several “Big Tech” companies are planning to build data centers or AI facilities which would require as much as 1 gigawatt of reliable power supply. The first move in this direction was Microsoft’s decision to contract ...

Debunking the 2023 hike in the Social Cost of Carbon - Highlighted Article

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  • 4/4/25 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Energy Policy

 

From: Climate Etc.

By: Ross McKitrick

Date: February 21, 2025


Debunking the 2023 hike in the Social Cost of Carbon


I have a new paper out in the journal Nature Scientific Reports in which I re-examine some empirical work ...

Decarbonizing Buildings - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/16/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The US Department of Energy (US DOE) has published Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector, which contains a link to the full study. The document is long on words, thin on scoping and virtually ...

Decarbonizing Buildings 2 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/23/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The DOE Decarbonizing Buildings blueprint, while it deals with fossil fuel end use elimination in the buildings sector, is far more focused on limiting the electricity demand and consumption increases resulting from the replacement of oil ...

Decarbonizing Buildings 3 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 10/8/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The US Department of Energy (US DOE) has published Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector, which contains a link to the full study.

The first strategic objective in the Blueprint is: Increase ...

DECARBONIZING THE U.S. ECONOMY BY 2050 - Highlighted Article

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  • 5/9/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy

From: U.S. Department of Energy

Date: April, 2024


DECARBONIZING THE U.S. ECONOMY BY 2050
A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Residential and commercial buildings are among the largest sources of carbon ...

Decision 2024 - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 10/29/24 at 6:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The Democrat and Republican Parties have held their National Conventions and approved their party’s platform for the 2024 presidential election.

The Democrat platform was developed prior to President Biden’s decision to end his...

Demonstration Challenge - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 11/28/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

The stated goal of the US Administration’s renewable energy transition is to replace all dispatchable fossil-fueled electricity generation and all direct fossil fuel usage with renewable electricity to reduce CO2 emissions. Logically,...

Demonstration Reporting - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 4/5/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy
  • Ed Reid

This commentary suggests a reporting format for the renewable plus storage demonstration discussed in the prior two commentaries.

 

Pre-demonstration electricity generation ...