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:

Solar Manufacturers Slowly Closing Up Shop In U.S. August 22, 2011
Solon North America, Evergreen Solar, competition in manufacturing from China
Chesapeake Energy: A Free Market Restart? August 18, 2011
NAT GAS Act: Wrong Way Legislation
Washington: If it ain’t broke, break it August 12, 2011
The Department of Energy’s Natural Gas Subcommittee has released a draft report of their findings on shale gas and hydraulic fracturing
President Visits Holland, Michigan While Holland, the Netherlands Turns Its Back On Green Subsidies August 11, 2011
The enormous increase in subsidies and regulations under the Obama Administration is yet another step away from consumer-driven markets towards a government-controlled economy
Presidential Appointments: Harbinger’s of Bad Things for Energy and the Economy August 8, 2011
President Obama’s choice of John Bryson for Commerce Secretary is even worse news for the economy than his choice of Immelt
EIA Releases New Subsidy Report: Subsidies for Renewables Increase 186 Percent August 3, 2011
Federal Subsidies and Support for Electricity Production
Parsing Obama’s Remarks on Fuel Standards August 3, 2011
Obama's whoppers and misleading facts about the energy markets
Federal Energy-Related Subsidies Have Increased 108 Percent in 3 Years; Wind Subsidies Increased 10- August 2, 2011
Government Report Confirms huge price tag for politically-favored energy sources
Solving the Debt Crisis Through Energy Freedom July 30, 2011
The Fiscal Crisis
Power Plant Efficiencies: It’s Only Getting Better July 30, 2011
The conventional energies that we use all the time are getting better and better
Potential Oil Production Increases in Gulf from Speedier Permitting July 29, 2011
The IHS Global Insight and IHS CERA Study
Second Thoughts on Electric Vehicles July 22, 2011
Electric Cars Can Create More Carbon Dioxide Emissions Than Gas Cars
Energy Reality Headlines July 22, 2011
The Obama Administration's energy policy is all about providing special government (taxpayer) favor for energies that consumers would otherwise reject as too expensive and/or unreliable
NAT GAS Act “Benefits” Only Half of the Equation July 21, 2011
When government officials impose legislation at the whim of special interests or just because they would rather see more people driving natural gas vehicles, it creates a chain reaction, the cost of which is not always immediately visible
A Definition of the “Green or “Clean Economy”—Not What You Would Think July 21, 2011
Politics will continue to define what is "green" or "clean," since these are semantic and political devices, rather than scientific or economic characterizations
Offshore Oil Production Stymied: What about Onshore July 20, 2011
Obama's War on Offshore Drilling Continues
Are Tax Hikes Good for the Economy? July 18, 2011
Why Tax Rate Hikes Might Be the Worst of Both Worlds
Renewables Surpass Nuclear Energy: The Rest of the Story July 12, 2011
United States has a vast amount of untapped fossil fuel resources not only in coal where we lead the world in reserves, but in oil and natural gas. Shale oil and shale gas
Why Free Market in Energy? July 9, 2011
Energy is so vital to our standard of living, we need to remove government interference
Shale Oil vs. Peak Oil July 7, 2011
We are not running out of oil or gas. We are running into oil and gas
Britain Evaluates Capacity Payments for Back-Up Generators to Wind Power July 6, 2011
Issues with Wind Power
Obama’s SPR Release July 1, 2011
SPR Drawdowns and the Price of Oil
Shale Oil May Mirror the Shale Gas Boom July 1, 2011
It appears that there may be enough accessible hydrocarbons to power industrial civilization for centuries, if not millennia, to come
China’s Coal to Liquids Program Not Allowed in the United States June 29, 2011
China's Growing Use of Imported Coal, China's Need for Coal is Enormous
Natural Gas Rent-Seeking June 28, 2011
Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits
Does Government Intervention Make Energy Cheaper? June 25, 2011
Wind Power, Cap and trade, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
New Low June 23, 2011
Obama Administration Taps Strategic Reserve to Lower Oil Prices Raise Approval Ratings
Salazar Applauds—But Solar Project Output Will Be a Fraction of Its Competitors June 23, 2011
Solar generating plants have a place as a starter energy source in remote places. Past that, this technology remains radically inefficient and uneconomic
The point of cap-and-trade is the tax money June 23, 2011
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: point of cap-and-trade is to generate tax revenue and not to reduction carbon dioxide emissions or reduction global warming
Up from the ground, came a bunch of millionaires June 22, 2011
Millionaires overnight, Marcellus Shale