October 22, 2025
A recent opinion piece in Utility Dive touting the merits of nuclear power favors a “technology-inclusive approach” over reliance “solely” on desirable-but-inadequate renewables. This framing avoids comparing technologies by claiming all are needed, and even makes comparisons sound unjustly discriminatory by echoing social-inclusion language. It condenses the exuberantly diverse renewable portfolio to “just one technology.” It also omits the biggest, cheapest resource — energy efficiency. Yet the piece evades nuclear power’s actual status, economics, prospects and operational role.
October 22, 2025
States Can lead an Equitable Energy Transition
October 22, 2025
The US solar results for 2021 are out, and full of good news. At a time when energy and climate change are on our minds even more than usual, here are five takeaways worth holding onto.
October 22, 2025
As one of the early SMRs planned for deployment this decade, its success or failure could prove a bellwether for the SMR movement.
October 22, 2025
SMRs will have no role in achieving the sharp cuts in emissions needed by the UK, nor any other country, by 2030. Nor will it help wean countries off Russian oil and gas or reduce electricity bills.
October 22, 2025
A federal judge has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take initial steps to protect salmon, steelhead and other aquatic species from harm caused by 17 key heavy metals, pesticides and other toxic chemicals found in Washington state’s rivers and streams.
