Oct 6, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
U.S. electric customers are facing sharp rate increases, and they are not happy about it. Climate change is part of the problem, but most of it boils down to market forces: too much projected demand for the projected supply. Those supply and demand projections, in...
Sep 30, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Charlie Cook, founder of the Cook Political Report (CPR), wrote a column last month for CPR (behind a pay wall) about gerrymandering that began this way: After 47 years at The Washington Post, Dan Balz recently announced he is stepping back from his role as the...
Aug 6, 2025 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
One of the few low-carbon energy technologies that the Trump administration is not actively trying to hobble is nuclear power. (Geothermal energy is another.) Nuclear power boosters have been heartened recently by the tech industry’s interest in 24/7 clean power to...
Jul 20, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
To my mind, some members of the climate coalition spend too much time and energy fighting with one another about which carbon-reducing technologies to support or oppose. Particularly in these politically problematic times, we ought to be humbly agnostic about those...
Jul 10, 2025 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Many writers and pundits (me included) have noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act will make electricity more expensive (by shifting project development costs from taxpayers to ratepayers) and slow growth in energy supply, just as future demand for...
