electric utilities
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An open letter to Michael Morris, CEO of American Electric Power
An open letter to a utility executive asking him to rethink his opposition to EPA climate regulations.
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Efforts to save coal could end up destroying it
Senators from coal states who are trying to protect big coal companies from the impact of global warming pollution reductions may only hasten the decline of big coal.
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Utilities can meet EPA standards without threatening reliability
Coal utilities are trying to scare Congress into thinking that if EPA follows up with its planned regulations, electricity rates will soar and there will be reliability problems in the electricity grid. Is it true? According to a comprehensive new analysis, no.
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Electricity markets are weird: why a carbon price isn't enough
If power companies have to pay for their CO2 emissions, what will happen to the price of electricity? The answer isn't as obvious as you think.
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Big Coal to Congress: Save us from EPA!
Utilities now face an EPA that is taking its responsibilities seriously. So they're forecasting doom, filling legislators' heads with scare stories, and planning lawsuits.
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The U.S. power sector: where the power plants are, when they were built, what they pollute
A broad look at the power industry -- where the power plants are, what they burn, and which ones pollute.
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Utilities are trying to pull off the scam of the decade
I’m technically on vacation, but there’s an extremely important fight going on in the background right now so I want to weigh in, even at the risk of irritating my long-suffering family. Here’s the deal: Right now, two things are happening in parallel. The first is getting all the attention, but the second is, in […]
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Is a ‘utility-only’ cap-and-trade bill worth passing?
Energy deliberations in the Senate are in the home stretch. There’s a crucial White House meeting on Wednesday between Obama and key senators where some final decisions are likely to be made. There are, believe it or not, a few liberal senators fighting to keep carbon limits in the bill, but the bulk of “centrist” […]
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Moving U.S. energy policy to a decentralized grid
The future of America’s domestic energy supply has become as murky as the waters of the Gulf as the oil spill fallout has legislators scrambling to rewrite offshore oil drilling provisions in the latest versions of the climate bill. Critical to reducing American dependence on fossil fuels is the development of alternative clean energy sources, […]