Top Floor Power

… is the website for Peter Maloney, a business writer, editor and journalist specializing in the electric power industry and finance, including regulation and policy, project development, project finance and business strategy. He also has covered banking and equity markets. Freelance clients include major law firms and consulting companies, as well as a variety of mainstream and trade publications. Behind the scenes TFP has been working as a guest editor and ghost writer and can help fill your needs. Like electricity, those efforts are not visible, but they are real. Contact TFP if you need help crafting white papers, strategies, and other content needs.

About TFP

Top Floor Power is a website and blog created by Peter Maloney to cover the news and ideas shaping the evolution of the electric power industry. The blog aims to give an accurate and unbiased account of the major trends in the industry as companies and policy makers struggle to balance the competing demands of regulation and competition and of reliability and profits. Read more . . .

Oeuvre Electrical

Oeuvre electrical is a small library of my work stretching back to 2004 and includes published (N.B. copyrighted) articles from Electric Power Daily, Electric Utility Week, Global Power Report, and Megawatt Daily, as well as some freelance work from The New York Times. There are also television interviews on power sector new stories taped with Bill Loveless and Chris Newkumet, hosts of Platts Energy Week, and a sampling of podcasts and presentations I have given at a variety of conferences and venues. Read more . . .

Ars Electrica

Ars Electrica is the first in a series of sidebars on lighter, more entertaining topics related to electric power and its place in our world. The first will be a series on artists who use electricity to make their art or use some aspect of the electric power industry as their subject. Who knew?

About Peter Maloney

Peter Maloney brings three decades of experience covering the power industry to Top Floor Power. Having earned many stock market scoops during the go-go 80s for Institutional Investor’s Portfolio Letter and winning a Jesse H. Neal award for editorial excellence at United States Banker, his attention turned to the power industry when western interests flooded into Eastern Europe. Read more . . .

Solar power clouds outlook for new gas plants in New England

Peter Maloney April 1, 2016 April 1, 2016

ISO New England recently raised its estimate of how much solar power will contribute to the region’s generation mix, further clouding the outlook for new gas-fired generation in the region. In a draft assessment of peak demand, ISO New England noted that the contribution from solar power is 30% higher…

Knitting and the Future of the Utility

Peter Maloney December 26, 2015 December 26, 2015

The message in David Crane’s departure as CEO of NRG Energy seems to be that he should have stuck to his knitting, but what knitting would that be? NRG runs one of the largest fleets of power plants in the country. For the most part, they sell power in competitive…

There Goes Nothing

Peter Maloney November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015

You may not have noticed but, especially if you live in the Northeast, you were getting something for nothing. Soon you will be getting less of that something, that is, you will be getting less CO2-free electricity from nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants produce zero emissions, no mercury, no…

No Free Lunch for Solar Power

Peter Maloney October 22, 2015 October 22, 2015

It bears repeating: There is no free lunch. Solar advocates often say that power from the sun is free and, true enough, sunshine is not metered. But there is a cost for everything. A recent study by the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University concluded that it would be…

50% Renewables? California Is Almost There

Going to the MATS for Mercury

More Fodder for the Death Spiral

AEP Plays the Regulatory Card