ENERGY - Archive - Independence Institute

Maine Gov takes aim at renewable energy standard 0
- November 8, 2011
Apparently Maine, not California (followed closely by Colorado), has the highest renewable energy standard in the country, and Governor Paul LePage wants to get rid of it. According to Gov. LePage, the 44 percent renewable energy requirement puts Maine at an economic disadvantage because it drives up the cost of energy in his state. Maine
READ MORE
Goldman Sachs CO subsidiary gets $90.6 million taxpayer loan guarantee 0
- November 7, 2011
In the shadow of the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal, the embattled Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program announced on September 9, a $90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix Energy of Alamosa for a solar energy project. A Cogentrix press release reported: The loan guarantee will support the Alamosa Solar Generating Project, a 30 megawatt (MW)
READ MORE
Government Weatherization: an exercise in Soviet style efficiency 0
- November 7, 2011
It rained taxpayer cash on “weatherization,” a series of energy efficiency initiatives – “such as residential weatherization and state capitol retrofits – to renewable energy projects” and federal grants intended to reduce carbon emissions and create “green” jobs. The nationwide initiatives enjoyed massive expansion courtesy of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),
READ MORE

Weatherization: Bring in Sealant Team 6 0
- October 25, 2011
This is a hilarious take on the “green economy” from Jon Stewart.
READ MORE
Bad news for EU could be bad news for CO 0
- October 24, 2011
Bad news for residents of the European Union and possibly Colorado. EU consumers and businesses face more than twenty years of rising electric costs as the region tries to meet its renewable energy goals according to a leaked report. The the working title of the draft report “Energy Roadmap to 2050” examines how the EU
READ MORE
Solar Power: economically and environmentally unsound 0
- October 24, 2011
This column appeared originally in Townhall Finance. Solar energy is neither economically nor environmentally sound By Amy Oliver Cooke and Michael Sandoval We live in the state that is ground zero for absurd energy policy, also known as the New Energy Economy. In a recent Denver Post house editorial, Colorado’s self-described “newspaper of record” was
READ MORE

Contribute