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:

Offshore Wind and Higher Prices Coming to Maryland August 28, 2014
Cape Wind, Maryland, offshore wind, wind energy
Spain’s Green Energy Experiment August 27, 2014
Spain, electricity prices, green energy, renewables, unemployment
ICYMI: Oil-Export Ban is Holding America Back August 27, 2014
Robert Bradley, oil, oil export ban,
Germany’s Electricity Market Out of Balance August 22, 2014
Germany, back-up power, disruptive renewables, electricity markets, energiewende
Ceres Prioritizes Green Financial Interests Over Customer Welfare August 21, 2014
Ceres, clean power rule, EPA, green energy, renewable energy
Conservatives Shouldn’t Trust Stelzer on Carbon Tax August 20, 2014
Carbon tax, EPA, Irwin Stelzer, Paul Krugman
What’s Fueling Forest Fires? August 18, 2014
EPW, forest fires, john podesta, Obama Administration
Oil Export Ban is Bad Economics August 15, 2014
free trade, gasoline prices, oil, oil export ban, oil exports
Does Senator Markey Want Higher Energy Prices? August 14, 2014
Cape wind, carbon dioixide, electricity prices, EPA, NStar, Senator Markey, wind energy
IER’s Hutzler to Sen. Markey: Markets, Not Govt., Will Improve Energy Security August 13, 2014
Gas, international energy, oil, Senator Markey
Over 60% of Africans without Power – Will Build Coal Power Plants August 12, 2014
Africa, Coal, electricity generation, Obama Administration
Flaws With “Risky Business,” Part 2 August 11, 2014
Carbon tax, climate change, Donna Shalala, Hank Paulson, Michael Bloomberg, Olympia Snowe, Risky Business, Robert Rubin, Tom Steyer
CEI’s William Yeatman Summarizes “EPA’s Illegitimate Climate Rule” August 9, 2014
Carbon dioxide, CEI, coal-fired power plants, EPA
China to Build 50 Coal Gasification Facilities August 6, 2014
China, Coal, coal gasification, EPA, natural gas
EPA’s Misleading PR Campaign on Power Plant Rules July 31, 2014
Climate change, CO2 emissions, electricity prices, EPA, existing power plant rules
Hearing with FERC Reveals Uncertainties in EPA’s Power Plant Rule July 30, 2014
Carbon tax, Cheryl LaFleur, clean power plan, energy and power subcommittee, EPA, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, philip moeller, Tony Clark
Energy Poverty Coming to America; Coal Shuttered for “Clean” Power July 29, 2014
ICYMI: Mary Hutzler’s Testimony on Green Energy Failures July 25, 2014
Geen energy, Mary Hutzler, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Testimony
Federal Lands Deserve an Energy Boom, Too July 23, 2014
Federal lands, natural gas, Obama, OCS, oil, Outer Continental Shelf
Are There “Mulligans” in Climate Policy? July 22, 2014
Climate change, greenhouse gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, IPCC, Joe Romm, John Christy
Australians Repeal Carbon Tax and CASE for Carbon Tax July 17, 2014
Australia, carbon dioxide, carbon tax, climate change, Obama, Tony Abbott
Taxpayers—Hide Your Wallets, the DOE is Giving Out Loan Guarantees Again! July 17, 2014
Wind, DOE, DOE Loan Guarantee, energy department, loan guarantee, peter davidson, wind energy, Wind PTC
Germany’s Angst Over Hydraulic Fracturing and Emissions Reduction Targets July 14, 2014
CO2 emission, gas, Germany, hydraulic fracturing, Oil Shale
U.S. Overtakes Saudi Arabia and Russia as World’s Biggest Oil and NGL Producer July 10, 2014
North Dakota, oil production, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Texas
DOE Provides Cape Wind with $150 Million Loan Guarantee July 9, 2014
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, cape wind, Department of Energy, DOE, loan guarantee, wind energy
States Already Benefiting From Southern Leg of Keystone July 8, 2014
Bakken, keystone pipeline, Keystone XL, oil
“Risky Business” Nonsense July 7, 2014
"Risky Business" document is just another sleek marketing effort to scare the American public into accepting radical government interventions into the energy sector
CBO Analyzes RFS: Expect Higher Gasoline and Diesel Prices July 2, 2014
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), The system is broken, with missed deadlines and increasing costs
Krugman Ignores IPCC on Climate Economics July 1, 2014
Climate change, climate consensus, climate economics, IPCC, Paul Krugman
Uncertainty Surrounds Ethanol’s Impact on GHG Emissions June 30, 2014
EPA, biofuels,ethanol, renewable fuel standard, RFS