What America Can Learn from Australia’s Grid
In past articles for the Dispatch Energy newsletter, I’ve written about the American electricity industry, especially its technology, its regulation, and the pressures now coming from data centers....
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Explaining Nuclear-Energy Fear: My Chat with Science Historian Spencer Weart
In a world facing climate change and clean energy challenges—such as meeting the needs of our expanding AI infrastructure—it’s starting to look like a nuclear energy renaissance will really happen....
View ArticleWhat Transactive Energy Already Knows About AI Governance
AI governance is a hot topic after the HuggingFace incident a few weeks ago, in which a group of AI agents created swarms that turned an internal software tool into a hidden communications channel,...
View ArticleAn Imminent Fork in the Road: Vertical Integration or Decentralization of the...
The economic environment shaping the electricity market has changed substantially in recent years. One of the most prominent emerging issues is the future of traditional vertical integration across the...
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The Data Center Backlash Is Really About Abundance
Keeping up with data center-driven electricity demand requires supply-side solutions, not bans. Conventional wisdom holds that the Luddites, the 19th-century English workers who smashed textile...
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No AC? It’s a European Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand
Another summer, another season of heat-death disaster for Europe. We’re not even finished with July, but already 2026 heatwaves have claimed a five-figure European death toll. According to EuroMoMo (a...
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Faster, Please! — The Podcast #99: Data Center Distortions: My Interview with...
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: What problem does a data-center moratorium solve, exactly? As these warehouse-sized supercomputers face growing...
View ArticleHow Can Freedom Fuel Gasoline Be So Cheap?
Notwithstanding the thunderous self-applause from Donald Trump about the gasoline purportedly being sold for $3.479 at twenty-five “Freedom Fuel” retailers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, at a time...
View ArticleUsing Freedom Together: Tocqueville on Association and Self-Government
Reminder: I am using multiple translations; my main reading is from the hardbound copy of the Mansfield translation. When I refer to page numbers it’s to the Mansfield translation, and when I want to...
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Ride Through as a Coasean Bargain
I am fascinated by ride through, and if you read Knowledge Problem you, too, should be at least intrigued if not fascinated. Ride through is an operational rule in power systems requiring that a...
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Energy Transition: Yes, No, Maybe?
The 2026 Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy — successor to the old BP Statistical Review, and an authoritative accounting of global energy data — has just been released with data...
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Star Power, Almost Within Reach
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: As a big fan of the potential of star power, I wasn’t exactly surprised to recently read that Helion, a highly...
View ArticleYou Can’t Just Plug in a Data Center
Most of us experience electricity as a subscription service. We move in, call the utility, set up an account, and expect the electrons to arrive. The power system is one of the great coordination...
View Article“An attempt to remedy the consequences of a distortionary policy with another...
PJM’s recent white paper, Powering Reliability Through Market Design, does not solve the problem underlying its title. But the paper is extremely valuable because it acknowledges that the foundational...
View ArticleAI, Price Theory, and the Future of Economics Research
Economists spend their lives studying how people respond when circumstances change. It would be odd if we failed to apply the same logic to ourselves. Artificial intelligence is not just another...
View ArticleThe US Economy Needs Two Revolutions, Not Just One
To fully exploit the potential of an emerging AI revolution, America is also going to need an energy revolution to power digital infrastructure, especially data centers. A new Goldman Sachs note on AI...
View ArticleDiscussing RCP8.5: Pielke on the ‘Cleaning Up Podcast’
Senior Fellow Roger Pielke Jr. discusses RCP8.5 on the ‘Cleaning Up Podcast.’ The post Discussing RCP8.5: Pielke on the ‘Cleaning Up Podcast’ appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
View ArticleAmicus Brief in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners...
AMICI CURIAE BRIEF BYPROFESSOR RICHARD EPSTEIN ANDPROFESSOR JOHN YOOIN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERSDownload The post Amicus Brief in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder...
View ArticleDiscussing the RCP8.5 Scenario: Pielke on Veriten’s ‘C.O.B. Tuesday’
Senior Fellow Roger Pielke discusses Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s elimination of the RCP8.5 scenario on Veriten’s ‘C.O.B. Tuesday.’ The post Discussing the RCP8.5 Scenario: Pielke on...
View ArticleDiscussing energy prices in California: Veuger on Al Jazeera’s ‘This Is America’
Senior Fellow Stan Veuger discusses energy prices in California on Al Jazeera’s ‘This Is America.’ The post Discussing energy prices in California: Veuger on Al Jazeera’s ‘This Is America’ appeared...
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