An important debate is taking place in Arizona over the future of one of the country’s largest coal plants, the Navajo Generating Station (NGS). In February, a group of the plant’s owners voted to slate the 2.2 gigawatt facility for closure in 2019, citing competition from low-cost natural gas. This
My three year old son is nothing if not confident. Wanting to hold serve with his older brother, he backs down from nothing. No matter the task at hand, “I can do it!” is his starting proposition. Successfully put a straw in his juice box? Count to 30? Put on his socks? “I CAN DO IT,” he promises
There certainly has been a plethora of dramatic reporting on last week’s “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth” executive order signed by President Trump. Some view it as the rebirth of America’s coal industry, others say it will have little effect, and still others are lamenting the
See Also: Setting the Record Straight on the NERA Report The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently published a critique of a recent report prepared by NERA Economic Consulting that the Energy Institute cosponsored along with American Council for Capital Formation. The report, Impacts of
My colleague Dan Byers summarized some of the really big stuff in President Trump’s sweeping Executive Order on energy. This post takes a look at one of the less-publicized pieces: the decision to abandon the Obama-era requirement to include the social cost of carbon (SCC) in the cost-benefit
Today, President Trump signed what might be the most consequential energy-related Executive Order (EO) ever. The Chamber has been at the forefront of most of the policy issues addressed in the EO, and our Energy Institute president and CEO, Karen Harbert, was in the room at EPA Headquarters when the
Ever since the “Shale Gale” put the brakes on the nuclear renaissance, much of the nuclear world has focused on Small Modular Reactor (SMRs) as the future of fission. SMRs are smaller, and therefore more versatile than their full sized Light Water Reactor brethren, and could be deployed in a wider
