Energy

State Energy Bailouts Pose More Urgent Threat Than Green New Deal
The Green New Deal and its associated hyperbole have commanded most of the recent attenti

19 Things States Should Not Do In 2019
Governors and legislators new and old taking office this month will be inundated with advice from all directions. Each special interest and left-wing or right-wing single-issue activist group will have scheduled meetings between its highest-paid...

Virginia Continues Move to Left
On November 7, 2017, Virginians elevated Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam (D) to the governorship. Democrats also won the other two statewide elected offices and, surprising most forecasters, picked up at least 15 seats in the Virginia House of...

The Moral Hazard of Subpriming Solar
In January 2016, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced the launch of the $30 million Mass Solar Loan Program (MSLP). MSLP will provide residential solar customers income-based loan support and interest rate buy downs. The program will...

Net Metering: Get Subsidies or Die Tryin'
The pro-solar energy activists have been on full alert since the Nevada State Legislature passed a solar bill last May that failed to raise the net metering cap for rooftop solar customers.

DOE Doublespeak: The “Profit” in Solar Energy Loan Programs?
George Orwell would feel vindicated.

Ho Hum
Yesterday, the President traveled to Tennessee to discuss his “new” proposal for spurring on the economy and creating jobs. He proposes to lower the corporate tax rate and simplify the

What's the Presidency For?"
On June 12, actor Robert Redford wrote an editorial in USA Today criticizing the president for taking little to no action with respect to global warming…oh pardon…climate change.