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TVA's Gas Pains in Context
Does TVA truly have the largest gas buildout in the country? Yes, but only if you pretend the electric sector looks like it did half a century ago.
Sep 23
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Fred Stafford
NEW: The Case for Public Nuclear Power
New from me: The New Deal public power utility that keeps on trucking, TVA, is facing an atomic dilemma: how to pay for kicking the tires of nuclear…
Sep 13
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Fred Stafford
July 2024
Why TVA's Grid is Greener than Greens Grant
The Tennessee Valley Authority is "one of the dirtiest utilities" according to many environmental nonprofits and to their sympathetic journalists…
Jul 28
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Fred Stafford
Balancing Arguments About Electricity for States and Utilities
People like to talk about the generation resources and carbon emissions of states. But is that actually meaningful? For more useful analysis we should…
Jul 20
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Fred Stafford
May 2024
We're on "Odd Lots," and Some Greatest Hits
Fred Stafford and Matt Huber talk electric utilities, electricity restructuring, nuclear, and public power on the popular Bloomberg podcast.
May 31
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Fred Stafford
April 2024
New essay: The Utility of Utilities
In a new essay, Matt Huber and I argue that in the coming era of clean energy growth, rather than yet more markets, the old-fashioned regulated monopoly…
Apr 21
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Fred Stafford
October 2023
Questions on the Build Public Renewables Act, Part 2: Climate Cart Before the Horse
The successful campaign to Build Public Renewables in New York should rekindle public power. But, contrary to effusive praise across progressive media…
Oct 30, 2023
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Matt Huber
Questions on the Build Public Renewables Act, Part 1: Was This a Labor Victory?
Correcting the progressive and socialist record on labor’s involvement in the successful campaign to Build Public Renewables in New York.
Oct 27, 2023
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Matt Huber
May 2023
New York Slated to Expand Public Power
Though it's no Green New Deal, new budget legislation should provide the impetus for the New York Power Authority to rekindle its past institutional…
May 3, 2023
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Fred Stafford
February 2023
Build Public Renewables: When Less is More
Why Gov. Hochul's new offering of the Build Public Renewables Act is overall an improvement over the legislature's bill, despite preserving an essential…
Feb 9, 2023
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Fred Stafford
November 2022
A Tour of Fred Stafford Writing, 2020-2021
Revisiting my (still small) body of work, for those who've only come across individual pieces.
Nov 27, 2022
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Fred Stafford
February 2022
Response to Harper's Report on Nuclear
A letter from a Millennial socialist to a New Left journalist.
Feb 23, 2022
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Fred Stafford
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