This paper presents the most comprehensive estimates yet developed of US federal government energy subsidies and incentives over the past 50 years â $644 billion. It shows that the federal government has subsidised the energy industries â nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, renewables â using...

We analyze the return on investment of the U.S. federal government’s clean coal technology (CCT) program for the period 2000–2020. We estimate total costs to government and industry and quantify benefits for: (1) Reduced capital costs of advanced technologies in new plants; (2) Reduced...

New England faces a serious shortage of electricity generating power within 5 years, and unless capacity is built in the 1990s the region may suffer large economic losses. Reserve margins may fall below 20% by 1990, and no later than 1992. By the mid-1990s the region could experience a shortfall...