Public Power Review

National Anchor Power: Going Beyond Hyperscalers, Recalling the Past

My National Anchor Power Program was pitched as a way to sell public clean firm power to hyperscalers in the public benefit. It needn’t be just for them…

Aug 19 • Fred Stafford

The Public Power Anchor: Expanding Transmission Alongside Clean, Firm Power

For the Breakthrough Institute, my critique of progressive ideas around tasking the government to build transmission, along with my big program proposal…

Aug 17 • Fred Stafford

June 2026

When New York Renewables Developers Had the State Under Their Thumbs

How the state's renewables developers dumped their project risk onto the backs of ratepayers but without the open scrutiny that the state applies to…

Jun 1 • Fred Stafford

March 2026

Bringing Back New Deal Local Labor History with AI

Here's how I used Claude Code to revive a decade's worth of midcentury issues of "Labor World," the newspaper of the Chattanooga Trades and Labor…

Mar 8 • Fred Stafford

January 2026

Debunking the Latest Antinuclear Claims From New York's Environmental Left

New York environmental left groups like Public Power NY and Third Act are touting a new paper that calls New York's plans for new nuclear plants an…

Jan 16 • Fred Stafford

December 2025

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is Today's Champion of Public Power

With some recent news, it's worth reflecting on this fact, even in the presence of the environmental left's advocacy of building public renewables.

Dec 3, 2025 • Fred Stafford

November 2025

New York's Mayoral Election Goes Nuclear

In a new article for Heatmap, I chart the significance of a seemingly anodyne remark in favor of nuclear from New York City's Democratic candidate for…

Nov 4, 2025 • Fred Stafford

September 2025

Kathy Hochul's Atomic Abundance, and research notes

In a recent article for Jacobin, I tell the "Abundance" story of New York's exciting plans for new nuclear power development to be led by the New York…

Sep 3, 2025 • Fred Stafford

June 2025

Biden Admin v. TVA, and other public comments on TVA's Draft Resource Plan for 2025

Public comments on TVA's 2025 Draft Integrated Resource Plan have quietly been posted online. Here are some takeaways.

Jun 10, 2025 • Fred Stafford

May 2025

Quick update: all but one NYPA peaker in NYC runs more since Indian Point closed

Oops, when this post first went out, the Joseph J Seymour plant in the chart was mislabeled as Staten Island.

May 18, 2025 • Fred Stafford

Greens who fought Indian Point angry that NYPA peaker runs more since it closed

In my quick writeup of the New York Power Authority’s transition plan for its New York City peaker plants, I mentioned a juicy tidbit but didn’t provide…

May 15, 2025 • Fred Stafford

NYPA's Peaker Plants Aren't Going Anywhere Yet

The New York Power Authority has released its transition plan for its New York City-area peaker plants, as required by the law that sprang from Build…

May 14, 2025 • Fred Stafford