MATS is Past; Carbon is King

Everyone is trying to read the tea leaves on whether or not the Supreme Court will uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule, but like the horse that is already in the field, those emissions have already left the stack. MATS, which is set to go…

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More Fodder for the Death Spiral

The Energy Information Agency’s recently released numbers on new generation additions for 2014 illustrate a worrisome trend for electric utilities. Solar power continues to make inroads into the nation’s generation base. Solar power is still relatively miniscule with only about 10,000 megawatts of the overall 1 million megawatts of installed…

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