Institute for Energy Research

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. IER maintains that freely-functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today’s global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well-being of individuals and society.

Most Recent Articles by Institute for Energy Research:

North Dakota’s Oil Production Increases by 55% In One Year February 11, 2012
This rapid increase once again demonstrates the importance and the promise of hydraulic fracturing
The Real Anti-Energy Agenda: The NYT’s Joe Nocera Finds It Out February 11, 2012
Keystone XL has become a cause célèbre for the critics of modern industrial society and requisite dense energy, oil, gas, and coal
NPR Adds More Excuses for Solyndra February 10, 2012
Massive failures in support for "clean energy" in country after country, including (now) the United States with Solyndra as the poster child.
Petroleum Imports and Exports: What’s the Story? February 9, 2012
U.S. Import/Export History, U.S. Petroleum Demand, Production, and Imports
IER to Markey: Greater transparency at Interior Dept. needed February 9, 2012
Energy resources on federal lands
Impact of EPA’s Regulatory Assault on Power Plants: February 8, 2012
New Regulations to Take 33 GW of Electricity Generation Offline and the Plant Closing Announcements Keep Coming...
IER blasts Interior Department for transparency failures February 8, 2012
"Embarrassing shortcomings" in data transparency at the Department of Interior
IER Statement on Administration’s New Fracturing, Oil Shale Regulations February 3, 2012
New Interior Department regulations regarding hydraulic fracturing that are designed to impose yet another layer of bureaucratic obstruction to full-scale development of America’s oil and natural gas resources
ANWR—Is President Obama Serious About Domestic Oil Production? February 1, 2012
Federal government leases a mere 3 percent of federal lands for energy production
T. Boone Pickens on Natural Gas Prices: Pet Technologies More Important Than Consumers February 1, 2012
Pickens on Higher Heating Costs: Let Them Eat Wind
Obama Wants a Level Playing Field? Not in Energy Sector January 30, 2012
Federal government currently places enormous obstacles in the path of oil, natural gas, and coal, while lavishing massive sums on dreamy technologies that can't get funding on their own merits
The U.S. and China’s Renewable Tug of War January 27, 2012
China's Non-Fossil Fuel Expectations, China's Wind Energy Market
The Obama-Salazar Offshore Charade January 26, 2012
Obama's claim and the real facts about offshore oil and gas
President Obama’s Record on Oil and Gas Production January 25, 2012
Since President Obama took office, total U.S. oil and natural gas production has increased. This increase, however, has happened in spite of the President, not because of him
IER responds to State of the Union, calls for skepticism January 25, 2012
"If the state of the union is actually stronger, it comes despite the policies of President Obama and not because of them." -- IER President Thomas Pyle
Breaking Down the EIA 2012 Annual Energy Outlook January 25, 2012
Slow Energy Demand Growth, Moderate Petroleum Demand and Production Increases, Natural Gas Production and Consumption Increases
Three Reasons Why Obama Administration is Anti-Energy January 25, 2012
Taxpayer funded renewable energy is a fantasy, but the pain at the pump is very real
Cost of President’s Keystone XL veto approaching $5 billion January 24, 2012
President Obama's decision will result in $5 billion eventually going overseas to purchase oil from unstable petroleum regimes
IER statement on new energy report, increased oil production January 24, 2012
Good-paying American jobs are on the White House chopping block
Overcapacity Hits Wind Turbine Market January 24, 2012
Vestas Wind Systems, U.S. Wind Subsidies
Fact Checking President Obama’s Claims About Domestic Energy Production January 21, 2012
Reduction in oil use is because of economic dislocation visited upon millions of American families by the longest sustained economic downturn since World War II
Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson Makes Sense On Keystone XL January 21, 2012
Irrational policy that sacrifices U.S. jobs for virtually no benefit
Impact of Sen. Bingaman’s Clean Energy Standard January 19, 2012
Eectric retailers to generate a certain percentage of their electricity sales from qualified "clean" energy sources
Obama State Department Stalling on Keystone XL FOIA Request January 19, 2012
Obama administration's handling of the Keystone XL pipeline permit,
“UNCONSCIONABLE” — President Obama denies Keystone XL permit January 19, 2012
Tens of thousands of American jobs died today because of the president’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit
The NRDC’s Oil Ignorance January 18, 2012
United States has no shortage of energy, but rather, suffers from a shortage of good policies
IER’s Dan Kish talks energy abundance on Platts Energy Week January 18, 2012
President Obama's job-killing regulations
Gluts and low prices: nothing new January 15, 2012
Taxpayer drain in the guise of national energy policy: Nat Gas Act
Ending corn ethanol support January 13, 2012
This Was Never About Encouraging Ethanol Use, Naked payoff to American corn growers
Government forces refiners to pay fine for nonexistent ethanol January 12, 2012
Cellulosic ethanol