The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some of the more informative articles in this issue are:

The Big Sunshiny Lie

Fraud and Corruption in the Power Generation Industry

Appeals court blasts US Government’s view of key bird law

Study: Intermittency of UK Wind Power Generation 2013 and 2014

CO2 Emissions Reductions – What History Teaches Us

Wind Energy’s Claim that it’s “Clean” is not true

Saving the Environment from Environmentalism

Study: Energy Efficiency Investments Do NOT Deliver

Models vs.…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some extra good articles in this issue are:

True Costs of Wind Electricity

Study: Economic Impact of Wind Turbines

California PUC concludes that Solar & Wind costs are extravagant

EIA: Renewables get 9x the subsidies of all conventional sources, COMBINED

Grid Constraints on Wind and Solar Energy — Part 2

Wind Turbines Being Installed in Sensitive Bird Habitat on Massive Scale

A Review of the Impacts of Onshore Wind Energy Development on Biodiversity

Research: Bees and Wind Turbines

German Doctors Push to Halt Building of Wind Turbines

British Leader: No More Wind Project Subsidies & Local People Have Control

Kansas Governor Signs Deal on Renewable Energy Mandate

The con in consensus: Climate Change Consensus Among the Misinformed is Not Worth Much

IPCC Lead Author: 97% of Climate Experts is Bogus

Another IPCC Lead Author: Global Warming Caused By ‘Natural Variations’ In Climate

What’s Really Wrong With the Global Surface Temperature Record…

Economic conservation of energy consists of voluntary actions and investments that make sense to the decision-maker in a free-market setting. Political conservation is  government-directed energy reduction measures. The later, conservationism, is energy savings for its own sake through monopolistic coercion or special favor (tax beak, crony regulation, or public check).

Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs by electric utilities are a major element of conservationism. Those who support reasonable efficiency and the elimination of waste should let the energy-efficiency politicos have the DSM term and use other words to describe what is favored.

DSM rose to regulatory prominence during the late 1980’s following the disastrous nuclear generation construction programs of the electric utilities. The confidence of the utility industry and its regulators in high-cost building programs shaken, they listened to new other approaches to meet future energy demand.…

“Voters and citizens all must tell Tom Steyer, the moneyed Left Foundations, taxpayer-inebriated scientists, green-energy cronies, Left politicians, and Crony Republicans that human-need philanthropy should replace the politics of pessimism and waste. It is time to end the futile climate crusade.”

– Robert Bradley, “Doubling Down on Climate Alarmism,” Forbes.com, December 1, 2014.

The free-market energy space these days is very crowded, quite unlike the old days when just a few of us were battling Big Government, Big Environmentalism, and Big Cronyism (think Enron). As one of the veterans, my blogs and op-eds now compete against a number of new voices, beginning with Alex Epstein and continuing with “America’s Voice for Energy” Marita Noon, and others. (Marlo Lewis, then as now, stands above as scholar-blogger.)…