Energy
Commentary
Read the latest on energy reliability
Energy Transition Or Not, Permitting Reform Is Essential
A reliable energy infrastructure that embraces innovation is essential. Without it, U.S. consumers may lose the capacity to cool our homes when needed, run our appliances on demand, and even earn a living. Ensuring continued energy reliability requires reforms that lessen the burdens associated with federal energy, environmental, and permitting ...
Commentary
Electric vehicle mandate isn’t proving to be practical
When Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his electric vehicle mandate, the deadline was almost 15 years away. It’s now a little more than 11 years down the road. Is there enough time to hit the target? Let’s look at the facts. Newsom’s executive order, which requires “all new cars and passenger ...
Climate Change
Fossil Fuel Lawsuits Are A Tax On Consumers
Announcing the state’s lawsuit against energy producers, California AG Rob Bonta claimed it is time to make energy companies pay for “the harm they have caused.” It is one of more than thirty such lawsuits around the country. As I have argued here, here, and here, these lawsuits are not heroic efforts to safeguard the ...
Blog
See how California's policy agenda is affecting other states
The Commerce Clause Vs. The California Progressive Agenda
Isn’t it written somewhere that one state can’t enact policies that interfere with commerce between other states? Maybe in the Constitution? Maybe in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3? This passage, known as the Commerce Clause, says that Congress shall have the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and ...
Blog
Girding For The Cost Of A Grid Upgrade
Demand will be roughly 336,000 gigawatt hours while supply will reach only about 280,000 gigawatt hours without a miracle. But even if somehow supply satisfies demand, the infrastructure that carries electrons is so creaky that there is no guarantee that the power will arrive where it’s needed. A pair of ...
Commentary
Why turn off lights for Earth Day when California is already growing dark?
Earth Day 2024 is today and Californians are being encouraged to turn off their lights. For now, it would be a voluntary exercise in futility. In a few years, though, maybe even this summer, the lights will go out on their own, as the grid becomes shakier while the state ...
Commentary
Read the latest on CA's energy policy
Can California Really Power 25 Million Homes Via Offshore Wind Farms By 2045?
California is relying heavily on offshore wind to take it to the nirvana of a carbon-neutral power grid in 2045. Sacramento believes so intensely in the concept that lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would allow voters to decide in the fall of 2024 if a $1 billion bond should be ...
Commentary
Read about latest government green mandates
The Californization Of Colorado
Should Colorado take the plunge and embrace burdensome green mandates, state residents will soon discover just how damaging the California approach is. Like California, economic growth in Colorado will slow and families – particularly low-income families – will struggle with energy unaffordability. Making these costs even harder to justify, the ...
Business & Economics
Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver – Juice, Power, Politics and the Grid
Filmmakers Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver join us to discuss their new docuseries Juice, which explores how misguided government energy policies and cronyism are threatening energy reliability and affordability. Also, Rowena and Tim discuss why Gov. Newsom is delaying his State of the State address and the latest legislative proposal ...
Blog
Read the latest about green mandates
Yet Again, Less Power To The People
Does anyone in the California Capitol subscribe to the Washington Post? Maybe someone on the governor’s staff, or an aide to an influential legislator? Because the Post published on March 7 an informative story that should be passed around to every lawmaker in Sacramento. Start with the headline (and a ...
Read the latest on energy reliability
Energy Transition Or Not, Permitting Reform Is Essential
A reliable energy infrastructure that embraces innovation is essential. Without it, U.S. consumers may lose the capacity to cool our homes when needed, run our appliances on demand, and even earn a living. Ensuring continued energy reliability requires reforms that lessen the burdens associated with federal energy, environmental, and permitting ...
Electric vehicle mandate isn’t proving to be practical
When Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his electric vehicle mandate, the deadline was almost 15 years away. It’s now a little more than 11 years down the road. Is there enough time to hit the target? Let’s look at the facts. Newsom’s executive order, which requires “all new cars and passenger ...
Fossil Fuel Lawsuits Are A Tax On Consumers
Announcing the state’s lawsuit against energy producers, California AG Rob Bonta claimed it is time to make energy companies pay for “the harm they have caused.” It is one of more than thirty such lawsuits around the country. As I have argued here, here, and here, these lawsuits are not heroic efforts to safeguard the ...
See how California's policy agenda is affecting other states
The Commerce Clause Vs. The California Progressive Agenda
Isn’t it written somewhere that one state can’t enact policies that interfere with commerce between other states? Maybe in the Constitution? Maybe in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3? This passage, known as the Commerce Clause, says that Congress shall have the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and ...
Girding For The Cost Of A Grid Upgrade
Demand will be roughly 336,000 gigawatt hours while supply will reach only about 280,000 gigawatt hours without a miracle. But even if somehow supply satisfies demand, the infrastructure that carries electrons is so creaky that there is no guarantee that the power will arrive where it’s needed. A pair of ...
Why turn off lights for Earth Day when California is already growing dark?
Earth Day 2024 is today and Californians are being encouraged to turn off their lights. For now, it would be a voluntary exercise in futility. In a few years, though, maybe even this summer, the lights will go out on their own, as the grid becomes shakier while the state ...
Read the latest on CA's energy policy
Can California Really Power 25 Million Homes Via Offshore Wind Farms By 2045?
California is relying heavily on offshore wind to take it to the nirvana of a carbon-neutral power grid in 2045. Sacramento believes so intensely in the concept that lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would allow voters to decide in the fall of 2024 if a $1 billion bond should be ...
Read about latest government green mandates
The Californization Of Colorado
Should Colorado take the plunge and embrace burdensome green mandates, state residents will soon discover just how damaging the California approach is. Like California, economic growth in Colorado will slow and families – particularly low-income families – will struggle with energy unaffordability. Making these costs even harder to justify, the ...
Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver – Juice, Power, Politics and the Grid
Filmmakers Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver join us to discuss their new docuseries Juice, which explores how misguided government energy policies and cronyism are threatening energy reliability and affordability. Also, Rowena and Tim discuss why Gov. Newsom is delaying his State of the State address and the latest legislative proposal ...
Read the latest about green mandates
Yet Again, Less Power To The People
Does anyone in the California Capitol subscribe to the Washington Post? Maybe someone on the governor’s staff, or an aide to an influential legislator? Because the Post published on March 7 an informative story that should be passed around to every lawmaker in Sacramento. Start with the headline (and a ...
