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Speed to Power: How Electricity Ratepayers Can Win the AI Race
Nick Loris on the barriers increasing energy costs and limiting AI demand.
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Congress’ Quick Fix For Astronomical Gas Prices Is Anything But

Nick Loris writes for the Daily Caller about why the House-passed E-15 legislation will harm small-scale refiners in the U.S.

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A New Regulatory Paradigm for Advanced Nuclear Energy 

Nick Loris writes about a newly released C3 paper and the NRC’s updated rulemaking in The National Interest. The NRC’s

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What the ‘Eco Right’ Wants from Permitting Reform

Nick Loris was interviewed by HEATMAP to discuss the “eco right” and their perspective on permitting reform. This week’s conversation

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A Growing Grid Needs Market Discipline: Five Principles for Transmission Policy

Nick Loris writes for RealClearEnergy about the need for consumer-first transmission reform. In a rare Level 3 alert, the North

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Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail merger puts America first

Drew Bond writes in the Washington Examiner about the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail merger and its benefits for America’s

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Conservative Groups Lay Out Transmission Policy Principles

A recent policy framework published by C3 Solutions, with the American Conservation Coalition, R Street, the Abundance Institute, Americans for

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Solar Doesn’t Need Subsidies Anymore

Drew Bond writes in RealClearEnergy about solar subsidies. Solar power is now among the cheapest forms of electricity on Earth.

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How Prize Competitions Can Help Fuel America’s AI Energy Revolution

Nick Loris and Adria Wilson wrote for The National Interest about the Genesis Mission. Prize-based incentives can fast-track breakthroughs in

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How Prize Competitions Can Help Fuel America’s AI Energy Revolution

Nick Loris and Adria Wilson’s guidance on the prize competitions can fuel America’s AI energy revolution was featured in The

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How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Mission — and the Message — of the E.P.A.

Lisa Friedman and Harry Stevens quoted Drew Bond in the New York Times about Lee Zeldin’s EPA. “There’s almost this

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Trump’s Carbon ‘Endangerment Finding’ Is a Cautionary Tale

David Kemp’s article on the endangerment finding was featured in the Cato Institute’s Regulation Magazine. For the past two decades,

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Iran war reality check: Global markets still dictate American energy prices

Drew Bond writes in the Washington Examiner about the Iran war price spikes. If America is energy dominant, why is the shutdown of

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Small Refinery Exemptions Will Help Drivers at the Pump

Nick Loris writes for The National Interest about solutions to ease fuel costs amid the war in Iran. Granting small

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The New Energy Competition: China, America, and the Politics of Dependence

David Kemp joins the National Association of Scholars’ panel “The New Energy Competition: China, America, and the Politics of Dependence.”

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Can Florida Revolutionize the Nuclear Energy Sector?

A new bill in the Sunshine State’s legislature seeks to streamline the approval process for constructing nuclear reactors. Advanced nuclear

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Why Democrats aren’t pulling the plug on permitting talks

E&E News quoted Nick Loris in a conversation on permitting reform. Nick Loris, president of policy for C3 Solutions, an

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Permitting talks live on as DOJ declines to appeal ruling favoring Revolution Wind

E&E News quotes Nick Loris on permitting reform and the critical opportunity at hand. Nick Loris, president of C3 Solutions,

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Trump Already Won Gold Stopping Offshore Wind

In a piece for the Daily Caller, Nick Loris writes on offshore wind and how the administration’s stance on it

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How Donald Trump Softening His Tone on Wind Could Unlock Permitting Reform

Nick Loris writes for The National Interest on how a softening of President Trump’s stance on offshore wind could open

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