energy
What Texas Never Learned From the California Energy Crisis
The parallels between today's Texas energy market and California's energy market in the early 2000s are striking. Texas should learn from California's bitter experience...
Firms Gerrymander Ownership of Polluting Plants to Reap Public and Regulatory Benefits
New research has discovered that many companies who appear to sell, or ‘divest,’ their toxic plants, actually retain relationships with their buyers. Despite the...
Fracking Can Lead to Elevated Salt Levels in Surface Water, Study Finds
A new study finds that fracking can lead to increased salt levels in water surfaces, especially during the early stages of production and in...
The Texas Power Failure: How One Market Model Discovered Its Natural Limits
Relying on marginal market prices to provide the incentives for the production and delivery of electricity means that all of the biophysical things enrolled...
The Texas Blackouts and the Problems of Electricity Market Design
Even in an ideal electricity market, reliability is an elusive and precarious byproduct of companies’ search for profits. Since market designers are rarely in...
SolarCity’s Troubles Fuel the Religious War Around Tesla’s Future and Elon Musk
Musk has been saying for years that his solar business will be similar in size to Tesla’s car business, but this is not likely to...
