Energy

Current. Summaries of policies that encourage the development of green power markets, state-by-state.

Pacific Northwest Laboratory (operated by Battelle Memorial Institute) for the US Department of Energy. Very detailed historical data on production subsidies to multiple fuels and the origination of many federal programs. Includes information on federal investments into many large hydro dams and in the TVA. Provides useful perspective on the substantial federal subsidies that bolstered large scale hydro and fission power for decades.

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Duane Chapman, Kathleen Cole, and Michael Slott of Cornell University for the Ohio River Basin Energy Study. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development. Report is one of a number that Chapman worked on during this time to quantify the tremendous value of capital subsidies to nuclear power. See, for example, tables 4, 5, and 10, for the role of tax subsidies in making nuclear electric competitive (even excluding the other fuel cycle subsidies it receives).

U. S. Department of Energy. Very detailed review of many federal programs that helped to boost the nation's energy consumption. Great source of historical information on U. S. energy policy and legislation going back many decades.

Arthur Andersen, Gerard Lagace, Jon Rasmussen, and Arthur Rypinski. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 1992.

Robert Eynon, Edward Flynn, Tom Leckey, Kevin Lillis, and Larry Prete. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 1999.

J. Alan Beamon, Ronald Earley, Robert Eynon, Edward Flynn, Tom Leckey, Kevin Lillis. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2000.

Marshall Goldberg for the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No. 11.

U. S. General Accounting Office. Letter report containing historical data and comparisons on federal subsidies to oil and to ethanol.

Though this specific bill is gone, the report provides useful background on a variety of energy subsidies that are either already enacted or regularly crop up in legislative initiatives.