Reports

Blue Hydrogen's Carbon Capture Boondoggle

Co-written with Anika Juhn

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

Blue Hydrogen: Don't Believe the Hype

Co-written with Anika Juhn

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

Eye popping new cost estimates released for NuScale small modular reactor

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

U.S. Power Sector Outlook 2021

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

Project Tundra: A Step in the Wrong Direction

Co-written with Dennis Wamsted

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

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

The American wind-energy horse is out of the barn

Six Insurmountable Business Risks to Keeping Navajo Generating Station Open Past 2019

U.S. Coal: More Market Erosion is on the Way

Co-written with Tom Sanzillo and Seth Feaster

Can the U.S. Coal Industry Come Back - The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Forum, November 2017: Issue 111

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

Phasing Out Federal Subsidies for Coal

Comments on Facility Cost Report for Tenaska's Proposed Taylorville IGCC Plant

Comments on Draft Portland General Electric Company 2009 Integrated Resource Plan

Energy Future: A Green Energy Alternative for Michigan

Economic Impact of Restricting Mountaintop/Valley Fill Coal Mining in Central Appalachia

Comments on Wolverine Power Cooperative's Electric Generation Alternatives Analysis

Michigan Public Service Commission Docket No. U-16000

Comments on Consumer Energy's Electric Generation Alternatives Analysis for Proposed Coal Plant

Michigan Public Service Commission Docket No. U-15996

Preliminary Assessment of Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative's 2009 Resource Plan

An Assessment of Santee Cooper's 2008 Resource Plan

Financial Risks of Building and Operating ODEC's Proposed Cypress Creek Power Station

Nuclear Loan Guarantees: Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead

The Risks of Building and Operating Plant Washington

Nuclear Power Plant Construction Costs

2008 CO2 Price Forecast

Coal-Fired Power Plant Construction Costs

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 Risks of Participating in the AMPGS Coal Plant

Climate Change and Power

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

Financial Insecurity

Clean Air and Reliable Power

Room to Breathe

Future Trojan Nuclear Plnt Operating Performance and Costs

The Costs of the 1991 Refueling Outage of Indian Point 2

Time to Retire, Not Bailout, OVEC's Aging and Expensive Coal Plants