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Green Watch
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2024

Green Watch
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2024

Green Watch
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
Victory?
The documentary concludes on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. The right-leaning Progressive Conservative Party government of Ontario has decided to pursue an…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on December 22, 2023

Green Watch
NextEra Energy: The King of Green Power
For most of its first eight decades, Florida Power and Light (FPL) was a traditional power company. But this had changed by 2010, when FPL rebranded itself as NextEra Energy.
by Ken Braun on October 19, 2023

Green Watch
NextEra Energy: The Sierra Wind Turbine Club
Federal wind and solar subsidies for NextEra alone have already exceeded billions of dollars. NextEra is just one of many firms soaking up other people’s money to create trivial amounts…
by Ken Braun on October 19, 2023

Green Watch
NextEra Energy: “Exceedingly Rare” Incidents
Needless huge eyesores on the landscape aren’t the only threats presented by weather-dependent power companies. On March 28, 2023, a NextEra-managed wind turbine in rural western New York caught fire.
by Ken Braun on October 19, 2023

Green Watch
NextEra Energy: Not So Rare
A “rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses” and that some “industry veterans say they’re happening more…
by Ken Braun on October 19, 2023

CRC in the News
The Anti-Nuclear Industrial Complex
On the Hügo Krüger, Ken Braun discusses his report on the antinuclear movement and explores the implications for the United States and other industrialized countries. These including the large footprint…
by Ken Braun on September 13, 2023

Green Watch
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
InfluenceWatch's new movement profile, the Opposition to Nuclear Energy, uncovers the hundreds of well-funded left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy—including nearly all of the nation’s largest…
by Ken Braun on August 23, 2023