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:

Enron vs. Exxon Mobil: Polar Approaches to Energy and Public Policy June 17, 2009
Enron's "green" strategy was at the core of its business problems and legal problems
Facts on Energy: Solar June 13, 2009
Transmission, Solar facts, Solar Subsidies
Renewable Electricity Mandate: Pay More For Less June 5, 2009
A National Renewable Electricity Mandate Would Increase the Cost of Electricity
The Facts about Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants June 3, 2009
America's improving air quality is an untold success story
Obama Motors: The Cars You Don’t Want at a Price You Can’t Afford June 2, 2009
American jobs, American workers, and American family budgets will suffer, Reduction of global temperature by 1/1000th of a degree
Levelized Cost of New Electricity Generating Technologies June 1, 2009
Annual Energy Outlook
In Espana, Veritas: Pres. Clinton Concedes Spain’s Green Jobs Program ‘Has Cost Many Jobs’ May 28, 2009
Delivering veiled rebuke of Obama's Spanish-inspired green jobs plan
Winners and Losers in the Waxman-Markey Stealth Tax May 25, 2009
Stealth tax of "cap and trade" Pure Deception, Protecting the Consumer
Once Again, the Consumer Gets Screwed May 24, 2009
Lawmakers pursue policies that raise price of nearly everything
Obama Motors: The Cars You Don’t Want at a Price You Can’t Afford May 22, 2009
Additional Manufacturing Costs Will Destroy 150,000 Jobs in the Automotive Industry
Cap and Trade: They Said It May 18, 2009
Policymakers Honest About One Thing--This Bill Will Cost a Whole Lot
Latest Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Energy Tax Bill May 18, 2009
Economic harm, Energy tax, Consumer Protection
New Tools to Understand the House and Senate Renewable Electricity Mandate Proposals May 18, 2009
Your energy costs
Green Electric Industry Mandate: Can It Pass? May 17, 2009
Wind power is currently more than 50 percent more expensive, Solar technology not efficient enough
Levelized Cost of New Electricity Generating Technologies May 14, 2009
Energy supply and demand
Finger-Wagging Lawmakers Should Look in the Mirror May 14, 2009
Lawmakers pursue policies that raise gas prices, blame refiners
Spanish Professor Debunks Green Job Myths May 6, 2009
“We Found that [the green] jobs we are creating… are destroying jobs in other parts of the economy”
Heritage Forum on “Green Jobs” May 2, 2009
Obama cites Spain model on Green jobs, Spain's massive job losses
Waxman Week-Long Cap-and-Trade Carnival Comes to an End April 25, 2009
Coordinated campaign to restrict, ration and raise the price of affordable energy
Cap-and-Trade “Most Profoundly Anti-Consumer Legislation Ever Brought Before a Congress” April 24, 2009
Lower standard of living, less competitive economy with lower incomes, less opportunity, and less wealth
Economic Improvements lead to Environmental Improvements April 23, 2009
Earth Day Message:
Court Decision Tests Salazar’s Mettle on Offshore Energy Production April 22, 2009
Interior Secretary holds key to unlock drilling plan from legal morass, but cat holds his tongue
EPA Says CO2 a Threat to Human Health, Paves Way For Backdoor Tax on All Sectors of U.S. Economy April 17, 2009
Carbon Dioxide regulated, rationed and restricted by the federal government
Flaws in the UCS Report on Renewables April 16, 2009
Union of Concerned Scientists, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Obama Mobilizes EPA Troops for War on Coal April 15, 2009
Agency to Kill Jobs, Prevent Access to America’s Cheapest, Most Abundant Energy Resource
Administration Enlists Another Soldier for its War on American Energy Production April 9, 2009
Drumbeat Continues: Ned Farquhar
Salazar Announces that East Coast Windmills Could Provide 100 Percent of Nation’s Electricity April 8, 2009
Fantasy Land: Blowing Wind
Salazar’s OCS public review process is the most open we’ve ever seen April 8, 2009
If by 'Open,' He Meant 'Closed,'
Hundreds in NJ Turn Out in Support of Offshore Energy Development April 6, 2009
Interior Department Hearing in Atlantic City Draws New Jersey Taxpayers Clamoring for Jobs, Energy Independence
Will renewables become cost-competitive anytime soon? The Siren Song of Wind and Solar Energy April 2, 2009
Overly Optimistic Wind, Solar Claims