The Spring 2014 issue of the Energy Law Journal has a comprehensive review of the second edition of Fundamentals of Energy Regulation.  To read...

In a recent report, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recommends that the wind production tax credit be continued indefinitely so as to support...

Continental Economics has just released a report that describes a cost-benefit analysis of proposed legislation in Maryland that would double that state’s Renewable Portfolio...

February’s column, “New Data May Indicate a Pause in Global Warming,” examines sunspot activity and global temperatures.  The observed pause in warming temperatures in...

Many utilities have developed their own methods to address the inevitability of equipment failure and evaluate the tradeoffs between replacing and repairing aging assets. ...

The second edition of Fundamentals of Energy Regulation, published by Public Utilities Reports, Inc., is back from the printer.  This new edition provides expanded...

December 2013’s column, “The Devil and the EPA,” discusses the US EPA’s new carbon emissions regulations for coal-fired power plants, and what this portends...

October’s column discusses the latest in the Keystone XL pipeline, which is is the environmentalists’ (and President Obama’s) latest bête noire, a project regarded...

Jonathan Lesser’s August 2013 “Energy and the Environment” column, “Rethinking Green Energy Mandates,” which is published in Natural Gas & Electricity, is now available....

The second edition of the popular text, Fundamentals of Energy Regulation, coauthored by Jonathan Lesser, PhD, and Leonardo Giacchino, PhD, will be published by...