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:

Drought and Renewable Fuel Standard Driving Up Consumer Costs August 17, 2012
Status of U.S. Ethanol Production
Wind Energy: Cronies Blowing in the Wind August 17, 2012
Lack of reliable energy produced by wind
Employment in Shale Gas Industry to Greatly Increase August 15, 2012
Shale gas, profound economic impact, creating jobs, reducing consumer costs of natural gas and electricity, stimulating economic growth and bolstering federal, state and local tax revenue
Cronyism Nevada-style: Harry Reid’s Anti Coal Agenda Benefits His Son August 14, 2012
Reid’s recent statements on a number of issues, there is no reason to believe he is being honest
California’s Flex Alert: A Case Study in Intermittent Energy August 13, 2012
California's stressed electricity grid
PYLE: 125 years later, wind power still needs a subsidy August 10, 2012
A Dismissal of Safety, Choice, and Cost: The Obama Administration’s New Auto Regulations
Obama Administration Gives More Green Lights for Green Projects August 9, 2012
Biofuels, Wind energy Projects, Expediting Permits for Renewable Projects on Federal Lands
The Hard Facts about U.S. Shale Oil and Gas August 9, 2012
60 year history of safe hydraulic fracturing
Sierra Club Report Avoids “Cuisinarts of the Air” August 8, 2012
The Sierra Club has done a good job of hiding its growing internal windpower controversy, which might yet grow into a full-fledged civil war
IER’s Dan Kish Talks Rising Gas Prices on FOX Business August 8, 2012
Discuss rising gas prices and issues affecting fuel refineries
U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Reserves Jumped in 2010 August 8, 2012
The United States has vast amounts of oil and gas resources, many of which are on federal lands owned by the U.S. taxpayer
Obama Regs Causing More Layoffs in Coal Country August 6, 2012
Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy, OhioAmerican Energy Inc., Murray Energy, Obama's ‘War on Coal’
Nobel Laureate Agrees: Federal Support for Ethanol Must End August 3, 2012
Paul Krugman himself publicly called for an end to government ethanol support
BUSINESS WEEK: Solyndra is Obama’s Baby August 3, 2012
Obama's energy policies have failed
Generating Companies are Shuttering Coal Plants at Record Rates, EIA Reports August 2, 2012
Reliability of the Generating Grid, environmental regulations imposed by the federal government
FACT CHECK: Sloppy Scholarship, Outright Lies in Sierra Club Report August 2, 2012
Sloppy error-filled report from the Sierra Club
The Obama Solar and Oil Shale Legacies August 1, 2012
$9 billion in Obama economic stimulus to create 910 jobs . . . $9.89 million per job. The Obama administration has closed 75 percent of previously available oil shale resources
AWEA Shows Just How Artificial Wind Industry Is July 30, 2012
The Production Tax Credit for wind is an artificial tool by which the federal government maintains a bloated wind sector
IER President Releases Statement On Anti-Frack Rally July 27, 2012
July 28 protest of safe hydraulic fracturing technologies
PYLE: Natural gas naysayers ignore the facts July 27, 2012
Anti-energy activists are intensifying their rhetoric and taking their anti-natural-gas attack to Washington
Interior’s “Smart from the Start” is Likely “Dead in the Water” July 27, 2012
Energy output of the natural gas in the Manteo Prospect is 59 times greater than the energy output of Cape Wind
More Stimulosers: Amonix Goes Bust July 24, 2012
The lesson from Amonix is clear: As with Solyndra, Beacon Power, and so many others, the latest fiasco demonstrates that the federal government shouldn’t be running an energy hedge fund
China’s Renewable Industry Still Getting CDM-Funded Projects July 24, 2012
China is clearly the world's largest user of coal by far and the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide emissions and it has no intention of changing that direction
U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Declining July 21, 2012
U.S. levels of carbon dioxide emissions are currently plummeting as inexpensive natural gas is replacing coal for electric generation
Solar Subsidies Make Electricity Bills More Expensive July 20, 2012
Affordable energy is essential to economic growth, and examples like Germany and Spain underscore how government attempts to pick winners and losers inevitably come at a cost
ICYMI: PYLE US NEWS OP-ED BLASTS NAVY BIOFUEL BOONDOGGLE July 20, 2012
Biofuels technology, U.S. Navy
Energy Sector Jobs July 18, 2012
Promotion the growth of productive, sustainable, high-paying jobs in the energy sector: Federal government merely needs to reduce regulatory barriers and let the market operate
IER PRESIDENT TO NAVY SECRETARY: GET THE FACTS July 18, 2012
Abuse of taxpayer dollars, Navy's biofuel experiment, called "The Great Green Fleet"
Obama Energy Policies Are Working: Patriot Coal Goes Bankrupt July 17, 2012
Patriot Coal and the U.S. Coal Mining Industry, The Cost of EPA Regulations
Energy efficiency mandates have ‘rebound effect’ July 13, 2012
IER Study: Folly of directing energy policy through regulation