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• Should We Double Down on Clean Energy?
  Examining Europe's results
  Adam Peshek
  February 24, 2012
• The Facts Behind the EPA’s Latest Proposal
  How the agency is using fuzzy math to justify a costly regulation
  Adam Peshek
  February 16, 2012
• The Future of American Energy Policy
  Finding middle ground in the battle between drillers and renewers
  A. Barton Hinkle
  May 13, 2011
• Let There Be Light
  The dim bulbs in Congress have condemned me to pee in the dark.
  Jacob Sullum
  March 16, 2011
• Wind Turbines Are Beautiful
  ...but a tad expensive.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 14, 2010
• President Obama's Energy Plans Have a History of Failure
  Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• What's So Smart About Investing in the Smart Grid?
  It makes no sense to throw $4.5 billion at electric power infrastructure
  Ronald Bailey
  February 6, 2009
• The Myth of Energy Deregulation
  California never fully deregulated
  Adam Summers
  November 7, 2005
• Call for Real Electricity Deregulation
  California failing to learn from past
  Adam Summers
  October 25, 2005
• Bureaucracy, Lack of Innovation Led to LA Blackout
  Time to corporatize LA's Department of Water and Power
  Adrian Moore
  September 14, 2005
• Give Consumers Choice on Utilities
  Schwarzenegger has opportunity to empower consumers
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  August 27, 2004
• Analyzing the Blackout Report's Recommendations
  Alternatives for a flexible, dynamic grid
  Lynne Kiesling and Michael Giberson
  July 1, 2004
• California's Dueling Electricity Bills
  Customer choice is needed
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 26, 2004
• Electricity Consumers Prove Their Smarts
  Customers respond to price changes, choice
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 2, 2004
• Socket to California
  Electricity plan for Gov. Schwarzenegger
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  November 10, 2003
• Demand, Not Supply
  Don't follow California in wake of blackout
  Vernon Smith and Lynne Kiesling
  August 20, 2003
• Blackout Blame Started as Soon as Lights Went Out
  Time to revise obsolete regulatory structure
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 18, 2003
• Rethink the Natural Monopoly Justification of Electricity Regulation
  Blackout shows need for change
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 18, 2003
• Customer Choice Key to CA Energy Crisis
  New York shows how retail choice can work
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 21, 2003
• FERC Report Moves Toward Regulatory Certainty in CA
  Market-based electricity neeeded
  Lynne Kiesling
  April 7, 2003
• Scapegoating Isn't an Energy Policy
  Blackouts, high rates are the result of government's poor decisions
  Lynne Kiesling
  March 26, 2003
• Utilities Takeover by Cities a Mistake
  Lower bills, increased revenue is a mirage
  Adrian Moore
  January 14, 2003
• Keep CA Energy Crisis in Perspective
  Lynne Kiesling
  December 2, 2002
• Electricity Transmission and Rates of Technological Diffusion
  Milestone in transmission wires
  Lynne Kiesling
  December 2, 2002
• Market-Based Electricity Pricing
  Puget Sound Energy's pilot program
  Lynne Kiesling
  November 4, 2002
• Vernon Smith and Retail Electricity Deregulation
  The benefits of choice
  Lynne Kiesling
  October 9, 2002
• California Public Utilities Commission Study Lacking
  Report overlooks many practical and economic questions
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 19, 2002
• Retail Pricing Critical Element for Electricity Industry
  Choice would reduce costs, outages
  Lynne Kiesling
  September 10, 2002
• Good News on Electricity Competition Front
  Choice lowers PA rates significantly
  Lynne Kiesling
  August 26, 2002
• GAO and the California Energy Crisis
  Study ignores strategic interests of utilities
  Lynne Kiesling
  July 18, 2002
• State Meddling, Not Deregulation, Behind Energy Crunch
  California did not deregulate
  George Passantino
  October 1, 2001
• Energy Crisis: Who Can Keep California Turned On?
  Adrian Moore, Harry Rosenfield debate
  Adrian Moore and Harry Rosenfield
  May 13, 2001
• Price Caps Will Not Solve Electricity Problem
  Price controls distort market
  Adrian Moore and Lynne Kiesling
  April 19, 2001
• Davis Is Overreaching in His Bid for True Grid
  Plan will produce high electricity costs, inept decisions
  Adrian Moore and Lynne Kiesling
  February 27, 2001
• Illinois Can Learn From California Energy Crisis
  Deregulation can get it right
  Lynne Kiesling
  February 20, 2001
• Let the Free Market Rule
  Electricity restructuring caused micromanagement and market distortions
  Adrian Moore
  January 28, 2001
• California: How Not to Deregulate Electricity
  State didn't deregulate, it only restructured
  Adrian Moore
  January 7, 2001

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