Category "Announcements"

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

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

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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...

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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...

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

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

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