Abundant, Reliable, Clean Energy
James Taylor
President, The Heartland Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Midland, Michigan • August 7, 2025
Presentation Slides
Comprehensive 30-slide presentation covering electricity demand growth, grid reliability threats, and the case for conventional energy sources. Includes data on rising costs, rare earth shortages, and the full-system analysis of energy options.
Policy Brief
Affordable, Reliable, and Clean: An Objective Scorecard to Assess Competing Energy Sources, evaluates seven major electricity generation sources—biomass, coal, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and wind—by assigning numerical scores for affordability, reliability, and environmental impact, then combines them into an overall “ARC” score for each source