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:
Ohio’s New Energy Bill
August 16, 2019
Ohio's new bill takes money away from renewable energy and efficiency mandates and directs it toward existing nuclear and coal plants, extending their operating lives
Tax Credits Are Expiring for Tesla and GM
August 13, 2019
Overall, the EV tax credit is an example of convoluted policy getting in the way of both the free market, and of its own stated goal.
James Hansen on Climate Policy: The Latest
August 10, 2019
The impacts on households and businesses of all kinds would be enormous. A quadrupling of gasoline prices would plunge the U.S. economy into a deep recession. Policymakers should understand the consequences of their proposals
“Planting Trees” Disrupts the Carbon Tax Narrative
August 6, 2019
Tree-planting might be the single best way to reduce the human contribution to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Fishers Snag Offshore Wind Farms
August 6, 2019
Offshore wind is expensive, costing more than natural gas and onshore wind power
Milton Friedman’s Energy Insights
August 5, 2019
Milton Friedman's timeless energy insights should be appreciated today--and not forgotten
New York’s Unstable Electric Grid
July 30, 2019
New Yorkers can look forward to higher electricity prices and future blackouts as its electricity sector is being transformed by the Climate and Community Protection Act
U.S. Air Quality Continues to Improve
July 28, 2019
The United States has cleaner air now than in the past.
Global LNG Expansion Underway
July 24, 2019
Global natural gas demand is growing significantly and with it LNG demand. The United States, Australia, and Qatar are expected to be the major suppliers of LNG to the global market.
Wind Turbines Against Nature
July 22, 2019
Wind developers and operators should not be given a free rein to kill birds, bats, and insects and to disrupt the ecosystem
Is Fracking Bad for Drillers and Investors?
July 18, 2019
Legalization of oil exports from the United States, as well as burgeoning LNG (liquefied natural gas) exports, have created new markets to absorb record production
Cost of Transitioning to 100-Percent Renewable Energy
July 17, 2019
100-percent renewable electricity system is not realistic by 2030 as the Green New Deal requires and certainly not at a reasonable cost
Atlantic Coast States Plan Expensive Offshore Wind Farms
July 17, 2019
Increasing the cost of power, disrupting views, and scaring away sea life will not help those economies continue to flourish.
Afordable Clean Energy (ACE) succeeds in replacing the onerous and legally dubious Clean Power Plan
Grill with Gusto this Independence Day
July 4, 2019
There is plenty of energy; and the climate will not notice and is otherwise not in peril
Scaring the Public on Climate Change
June 29, 2019
The climate change alarmists are given a free pass to throw out the most absurd rhetoric, such as a recent author's warning that potentially billions of people could die because of human-caused climate change
The U.S. Is Awash in Oil
June 25, 2019
he miracle of American technology coupled with resource wealth has significantly lessened these threats to our national and economic security
GAO Finds No Real Benefit to the Renewable Fuel Standard
June 25, 2019
Energy independence and national security were the arguments used for the passage of the initial ethanol mandate in 2005 and its 900-percent increase two years later.
Terminology "zero emission" is a misnomer when referring to electric vehicles
"The cost (in real dollars) of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed financial life and duty cycle"
Foolish policies like the Green New Deal and 100% renewable mandates would harm our economy and significantly raise the cost of electricity for American households.
Wind and solar power are not the inexpensive sources of energy that many thought they would be, since they impose costs on the generating system for back-up power, land requirements, and greater transmission lines
Even the most ardent environmental activists admit that the Paris Agreement hasn't come close to solving the problem of climate change, they should actually be thanking Trump for being the first to announce that it doesn't work and ending this farce
Hitting the Open Road
May 25, 2019
Hitting the open road on Memorial Day is red, white, and blue for tens of millions of Americans
Using the UN's Own Document to Defeat the Climate Change Agenda
Driving Through Gas Taxes
May 21, 2019
37 million Americans expected to take the road this Memorial Day weekend
Climate Lawsuits Have Cities Seeing Green
May 14, 2019
Flawed Reasoning, False Premises: Sham lawsuits created by municipalities looking for their next meal ticket
It's important to point out that the "consensus science" as codified, for example, in the periodic reports from the United Nations do not support such a cliff-hanger mentality at all
