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:
Macron’s Carbon Tax Disaster
December 6, 2018
The green elite has gathered to work out how to actually implement the Paris climate treaty that was so showily inaugurated in 2015
Looking at the NCA's own numbers, it's not at all clear that pursuing aggressive government action to mitigate climate change would produce benefits in excess of costs.
Canadian Crude Oil Sells at Record Discounts
November 9, 2018
Similar to oil in the Permian Basin in Texas, pipeline constraints are holding back oil sands production in Alberta
Washington State to Vote on a Carbon Tax Again
November 3, 2018
Washington's carbon tax, if it passes, will have consumers paying the lion's share of the tax through higher prices for gasoline, heating oil and other products
Wind Farms Could Cause Surface Warming
October 31, 2018
The warming effect depends strongly on local weather conditions, as well as the type and placement of the wind turbines
The American public prefers SUVs and pick-up trucks and automakers prefer them as well because they get much larger profits from selling them
United Nations IPCC Climate Agenda Ignores Cost
October 27, 2018
When the U.N. doesn't even try to estimate how expensive its latest climate proposal would be, that should be a red flag that most of the public would flatly reject it.
Proponent of Alberta Carbon Tax Misleads the Public
October 24, 2018
Even if a poor household "makes" $50 or even $100 a year from a rebate scheme, it could still be worse off from the higher energy and transportation prices it must pay due to the carbon tax.
The renewable energy industry is financed by government subsidies and state mandates
California’s 100-Percent Zero-Emission Power Goal
October 2, 2018
California can expect to see a large increase in the cost of its electricity in exchange for uncertain benefits. If wind, solar are the energy sources of the future--with reliability and low costs--then why the need for subsidies and mandates
To follow the money behind the environmental left for yourself, visit the Institute for Energy Research’s latest project, Big Green, Inc.
Australia Shows Futility of Climate Legislation
September 27, 2018
It is fashionable to label skeptics of aggressive government climate action as “deniers” of science. Yet as the election outcomes in Australia, Canada, and the United States show, those favoring a carbon tax are themselves denying political science.
Is the Environmental Left Really ‘David’ Fighting Goliath?
September 24, 2018
When the fog clears, it appears that the ostensibly giant fossil fuel Goliath has fallen, and the no-longer puny green David has been crowned ruler
Coal Is Still King in the Global Generating Sector
September 24, 2018
U.S. Coal Exports
Big Green, Inc.‘s assault on the coal industry
September 19, 2018
IER Unveils Green Grant Tracker: Big Green, Inc.
U.K.‘s Wind Farms Idled in Summer Heat Wave
September 19, 2018
U.K. Carbon Goals
Busting the “100 Percent Renewable” Myth
September 14, 2018
The "100 percent renewable" claim is misleading and disingenuous
Petroteq Believes its Technology Is the Key to Utah Oil Sands
September 14, 2018
Patented Clean Oil Recovery Technology
The Mounting Solar Panel Waste Problem
September 13, 2018
The growth in solar panel waste worldwide is large and needs to be addressed as it is expected to get larger.
Oren Cass: “There’s No Conservative Carbon Tax”
September 11, 2018
The so-called “conservative” case for a carbon tax has always been a shell game
Massachusetts Offshore Wind Farm Forecasts Incredibly Low Rates
August 31, 2018
Whether Vineyard Wind can live up to its price forecast is yet to be seen
In the context of climate change, that means exploring the social cost of carbon at a wide range of discount rates, on a diversity of time horizons, and showing both the domestic and the global consequences
False Consensus: The Onion Spoofs Climate Science
August 21, 2018
The real laugh is on Malthusian consensus, past and present, not on the critics of doom-and-gloom
Commercial fishing has been an industry in America for 400 years, while wind turbines last for just 20 years or so. It is important to keep these industries in perspective when considering whether to invest in offshore wind farm
To prevent further abuses, NEPA reform must focus on untangling the web of NEPA responsibilities, making one agency responsible for decision-making, limiting the scope of environmental reviews , mandating timeliness
Oil and Gas Pipelines Needed in the Permian Basin
August 14, 2018
A lack of pipeline capacity is hampering Permian Basin crude oil and natural gas production
Canadian Provinces Fighting Back Against Trudeau’s Carbon Tax
August 11, 2018
Impact of Canada’s Climate Plan
Milton Friedman, Climate Change, and a Carbon Tax
August 1, 2018
They can’t simply cite other economists on the matter and claim to speak for Friedman himself
Technology Revolutionizing the Oil Industry
July 31, 2018
U.S. crude oil output is expected to average 10.7 million barrels of oil per day in 2018, exceeding the highest average production on record
Despite the poor performance from China’s renewable plants and the country’s excess generating capacity, Apple recently launched a $300 million clean energy fund that is expected to fund additional renewable energy generation in China