Reports
Nuclear Hype Ignores High Cost Long Timelines - Nuclear Options Are Years Away While Solar, Storage and Geothermal Are Clean, Cost-Effective Options Ready Now
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Nuclear Options: New research on SMRs raises questions over Australia's energy debate
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Small Modular Reactors: Still Too Expensive, Too Slow and Too Risky
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Carbon Capture at Boundary Dam 3 still an underperforming failure
Co-written with Mark Kalegha
Blue Hydrogen: Not Clean, Not Low Carbon, Not a Solution
Co-written with Anika Juhn
Proposed CCS projects need careful review for cost, technology risks
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Texas needs to go big on carbon capture proposal
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
The Energy Department's hydrogen gamble: Putting the cart before the horse
Co-written with Suzanne Mattei and Dennis Wamsted
Small Modular Reactor likely to end badly for utilities and worse for ratepayers
Small Modular Reactor Update: The Fading Promise of Low-Cost Power from UAMPS' SMR
The ill-fated Petra Nova CCS project: NRG throws in the towel
Co-written with Suzanne Mattei
Price of Buying Power from Prairie State Coal Plant Will Remain a Bad Deal for Cleveland Public Power Customers, Despite Short-Term Market Variations
Private Equity's Losing Bet on PJM Coal Plants
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted and Seth Feaster
2022 US Power Sector Outlook
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted and Seth Feaster
NuScale's Small Modular Reactor: Risks of Rising Costs, Likely Delays, and Increased Competition Cast Doubt on Long-Running Development Effort
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Blue Hydrogen: Technology Challenges, Weak Commercial Prospects, and Not Green
Co-written with Suzanne Mattei, Dennis Wamsted, Seth Feaster, Omar Mawji, and Tom Sanzillo
Southern Company's Troubled Vogtle Nuclear Project: Units 3 and 4 Now Expected to Cost More than $30 Billion and Are At Least Six Years Behind Schedule
Southern Company demolishes part of the $7.5 billion Kemper power plant in Mississippi
Cost of Buying Power from AMP's Prairie State and Combined Hydro Projects Continue to Mount for Municipal Ratepayers
Coal-fired carbon capture projects are waste of tax dollars
Where's the Beef: Enchant's San Juan Generating Station CCS Retrofit Remains Behind Schedule, Financially Unviable
Boundary Dam 3 Coal Plant Achieves Goal of Capturing 4 Million Metric Tons of CO2 But Reaches the Goal Two Years Late
Colstrip Legislation would slam NorthWestern customers with costs topping $1.3 billion over 20 years
Bad News for Coal in the Southwest Power Pool: Wind, Not Coal Was the No. 1 Fuel Source in 2020
Comments on the Orlando Utilities Commission's Draft 2020 Electric Integrated Resource Plan Report
Long-Term Power Plant Contracts Saddle AMP Communities With High Energy Prices
Buying Power from AMP's Prairie State and Combined Hydro Projects Has Been a FInancial Disaster for Cleveland Public Power and Its Ratepayers
Glenrock's CO2 capture facility hopes are based on wishful thinking
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Petra Nova Mothballing Post-Mortem: Closure of Texas Carbon Capture Plant is a Warning Sign
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Petra Nova Mothballing Post-Mortem: Closure of Texas Carbon Capture Plant is a Warning Sign
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Another Expensive Mistake by NTEC: Wasting More of the Navajo Nation's Resources at Four Corners
Another nail in the San Juan zombie carbon-capture coffin
Public Comments on Rocky Mountain Power's 2019 Integrated Resource Plan
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Time to Retire, Not Bailout, OVEC's Aging and Expensive Coal Plants
Enchant's Proposed CCS Project at the San Juan Generating Station
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Risks Growing for India's Coal Sector
Co-written with Bryndis Woods, Applied Energy Clinic
Reality of carbon capture not even close to proponents' wishful thinking
13 Questions on NTEC's Bid to Buy Powder River Basin Coal Mines from Bankrupt Cl Peakn
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted, Seth Feaster and Karl Cates
Problems in Paradise: Close TVA's Aging Coal Unit is the Right Decision
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
The Proposed Lamu Coal Project: the Wrong Choice for Kenya
Bailout Bill a Bonanza for FirstEnergy Solutions, but a Boondoggle for Ohio Consumers
Where are the customers for the Navajo Generating Station
A Bad Bet: Owning the Four Corners Coal Plant is a Risky Gamble for the Navajo Nation and the Plant's Other Owners
Holy Grail of Carbon Capture Continues to Elude Coal Industry
Co-written with Dennis Wamsted
Big risk to taxpayers in FirstEnergy settlement on coal plants
The Leczna IGCC Project: High Costs and Unreliable Operations Can Be Expected
Co-written with Gerard Wynn
Duke Energy's Costly Edwardsport coal-gasification project continues to underperform
A U.S. coal bailout wouldn't stop electric sector transition
The hurdles to an economically viable Navajo Generating Station remain
Six Insurmountable Business Risks to Keeping Navajo Generating Station Open Past 2019
An Effort in Congress to Bail Out the U.S. Coal Industry at Taxpayers' Expense
U.S. Coal: More Market Erosion is on the Way
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo and Seth Feaster
Markets Speak Louder than Words - Federal Regulator Rejects U.S. Plan to Subsidize Coal and Nuclear Plants
Can the U.S. Coal Industry Come Back - The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Forum, November 2017: Issue 111
Latest U.S. Coal Plant Shutdown Stems from a Saga in Which Investors Failed to See Change Coming
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
Coal is Dying and EPA's Clean Power Plan Reversal Can't Save It
In Campaign to Prop Up Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Energy Seeks a Victory Again at Somebody Else's Expense
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
A Half-Built, High-Priced Nuclear White Elephant
Co-written with Gerard Wynn
Using Coal Gasification to Generate Electricity: A Multibillion Dollar Failure - Kemper and Edwardsport Are Painful Case Studies for Ratepayers and Investors Alik
In West Virginia Governor's Scheme, a Bailout Disguised as a National-Security Program That Would Cost Taxpyers $60 Billion over Five Years
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
The U.S. Nuclear Project Cancellation Heard 'Round the World'
Will Southern Company Refund Mississippi Ratepayers for Failed $7.5 Billion Kemper Clean Coal Experiment
Electricity Auctions Across Major Swaths of U.S. Spell Further Distress for Fading Coal
End of An Era: Navajo Generating Station is No Longer Economic
Even Without Tax Credits, Prices for U.S. Wind and Solar Are on a Downward Slope
Full Retirement of Plant Hammond Remains the Best Outcome for Georgia Ratepayers
Electricity Grid Transition in the U.K.: As coal-fired generation recedes, renewables and reliable generation can fill the gap
Co-written with Gerard Wynn
Petersburg: Another Coal-Fired Plant That Should Be Retired
IEEFA 2017 U.S. Coal Outlook: Short-Term Gains Will Be Muted by Prevailing Weaknesses in Fundamentals
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
As U.S. Electricity-Generation Transition Continues, Signs of Tough Year Ahead for Coal Power Sector
Wind is Blowing Away Fossil-Generated Power in Middle America
For Key Coal-Fired Plants in Texas, the Baseload Party is Over
The Beginning of the End: Fundamental Changes in Energy Markets Are Undermining the Financial Viability of Coal-Fired Power Plants in Texas
Closing of Two Coal-Fired Units is an Acknowledgement of Their Failure to Compete
Emblematic of a Sector in Distress, Homer City Power Station in West Pennsylvania Is on the Ropes
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
A Darker Day Has Just Dawned for Two Long-Outdated Ohio Coal Plants
Turkey at a Crossroads: Invest in the Old Energy Economy or the New
Analysis of Costs to Ratepayers if Northwestern Energy or State of Montana Purchase Colstrip Plant
Ruling is a Giveaway to FirstEnergy and AEP and a Betrayal of Ratepayers
Financial Condition of Montana's Colstrip 1 and 2 Worse than Previously Known
Bad Choice - the Risks and and Viability of Proposed US Nuclear Reactors in India
Good Call by the New York PSC in Pulling the Plug on Aging Cayuga Power Plant
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
The Supreme Court Case on the EPA's Clean Power Plan is a Red Herring
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
The Proposed Kosovo Power Plant: An Unnecessary Burden at an Unreasonable Price
Co-written with Tom Sanzillo
Georgia Power's Aging Plant Hammond Should Be Retired
Long-Dreary Outlook for Two Montana Coal-Fired Plants Has Gotten Worse
A Losing Proposition: Why the Proposal to Repower the Cayuga Plant Should be Rejected
Co-written with Cathy Kunkel
Opportunity for a New Direction for Puerto Rico's Electric System
Co-written with Cathy Kunkel and Tom Sanzillo
Slovenians in their Rebuke of a Misbegotten Power Plant, Put U.S. Officials to Shame
A Bleak Future for Colstrip Units 1 and 2
Co-written with Cathy Kunkel
Truth: Rooftop Solar Capacity Benefits All Ratepayers
The Truth About Prairie State Energy Campus (Part 1): Failing Year by Year
Peabody Energy: Management is Rewarded as Investors Lost and Workers Are At Risk
Left in the Dark - How the Alabama Public Service Commission Makes Customers Pay for Billions of Dollars for Alabama Power Company Investments without Any Meaningful Public Review or Involvement
2014 Another Year of Unmet Promises for the Prairie State Energy Campus
The War Over Solar Energy - A Report from One of the Front Lines
There's a Better Way Out of this Mess Than What Paducah Power Proposes
Kemper Power Plant, a Debacle That Should Never Have Been
Paducah Power System's Recent and Future Cost of Power from the Prairie State Energy Campus
How the High Cost of Power from Prairie State is Affecting Bowling Green Municipal Utilities' Customers
Reply Comments on PGE 2009 Integrated Resource Plan
Reply Comments in Oregon PUC Docket LC48 on Portland General Electric 2009 Integrated Resource Plan
Comments on PGE 2009 Integrated Resource Plan
Comments filed in Oregon PUC Docket No. LC 48
Comments on City of Holland Board of Public Works 2010 Power Supply Plan
Michigan Public Service Commission Docket No. U-16077
Comments on Facility Cost Report for Tenaska's Proposed Taylorville IGCC Plant
Comments on Draft Portland General Electric Company 2009 Integrated Resource Plan
Economic Impact of Restricting Mountaintop/Valley Fill Coal Mining in Central Appalachia
Comments on Consumer Energy's Electric Generation Alternatives Analysis for Proposed Coal Plant
Michigan Public Service Commission Docket No. U-15996
Comments on Wolverine Power Cooperative's Electric Generation Alternatives Analysis
Michigan Public Service Commission Docket No. U-16000
Preliminary Assessment of Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative's 2009 Resource Plan
Financial Risks of Building and Operating ODEC's Proposed Cypress Creek Power Station
Risky Appropriations: Gambling U.S. Energy Policy on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
Don't Get Burned: The Risks of Investing in New Coal-Fired Power Plants
Report for the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
The Physical Nature of Electricity
Report on the physical nature of electricity and whether electricity is a tangible product or a service presented in Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board Docket No. C258405-406
The Prudence of Rockland Electric's Power Purchases
Report presented in New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Docket No. ER0208614