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Episode 52 of Chris Nelder’s Energy Transition show was posted September 20, 2017, and it features yours truly talking frankly about nuclear power economics, the role of storage, 100% renewable energy scenarios, and limits of economic models, among other things. I’m pleased to say we achieved a “geek
Read moreThe US EIA Monthly Energy Review (Table 7.2a) includes data on net generation for the US (utilities plus independent generators), and from those data we can say something interesting about what was driving declines in coal generation from 2015 to 2016. The conventional wisdom is that cheap natural gas
Read moreOur article critiquing the recent Lovering et al. Energy Policy article on the costs of nuclear power was just published online by Energy Policy (the article is now considered to be “in press” with only minor tweaks to come once they assign the article to an issue). My colleagues Nate
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