Energy Forecast
Ed Hirs consults, lectures, and writes on energy markets, environment, investment finance, corporate governance, and ESG. Experience includes the Office of Conservation and Solar Energy at U.S. DOE, independent power producers, renewable fuels, and oil & gas as a consultant, dealmaker, and executive.
Media
- Lawsuits Filed in Texas Allege Price Gouging During Recent Blackouts
July 14, 2021 - New Report Gives Insight to Energy Conservation Alerts Across Texas in June
July 9, 2021 - How to Fix the Troubled Texas Grid
July 6, 2021 - Are Power Companies Playing Texas Hold'em?
July 5, 2021 - Maine wants to take over its private electric utilities. Could other states follow?
June 25, 2021 - Legislature passes power reforms as Texas grid is prepped for potentially record-breaking summer demand
June 24, 2021 - Why are Californians being asked to turn up the heat?
June 23, 2021 - Record-breaking heat wave puts strain on states' power grids
June 17, 2021 - Discussion: The state of Texas' power grid | FOX 7 Austin
June 17, 2021 - Gov. Abbott signs ERCOT reform, weatherization bills into law
June 8, 2021 - How Texas' Drive for Energy Independence Set it up for Disaster
February 21, 2021 - What could the disaster in Texas mean for the future of energy in the US?
February 21, 2021 - Ed Hirs has been Predicting this mess for Years
February 19, 2021
Presentations
- Episode 2: Negative prices, storage issues & bankruptcies. An industry in freefall?
Date: April 29, 2020 | Time: 19 mins - UH Energy Symposium Series | Energy Infrastructure: Bottleneck or Enabler
Date: March 19, 2020 | Time: 1 hour 35 mins - Cost In Space: Valuing The Johnson Space Center
Date: January 30, 2018 | Time: 30 mins - UH Energy Symposium Series | Electric Power: Going Off The Grid
Date: Sept. 21, 2017 | Time: 19 mins - UH Energy Symposium Series | Energy Independence: Is it Good For The Nation
Date: Sept. 30, 2014 | Time: 1 hour 26 mins
Recent Publications
- Deliberate inaction: Root causes of Texas power failure yet to be addressed
February 14, 2021 - A Decade of Deliberate Inaction: Root Causes and Fallout from the Deadly Texas Power Failure of 2021
January 21, 2022 - Forbes: Big Oil Responds To Congressional Scapegoating With Stellar Earning Results
October 29, 2021 - Forbes: How To Play A Debt Default: Buy Oil
October 4, 2021 - Texans will see high electricity bills in March, thanks to winter storm
September 26, 2021
Grid Economics
- Deliberate inaction: Root causes of Texas power failure yet to be addressed
February 14, 2021 - A Decade of Deliberate Inaction: Root Causes and Fallout from the Deadly Texas Power Failure of 2021
January 21, 2022 - Texans will see high electricity bills in March, thanks to winter storm
September 26, 2021 - The Lone Star State could become 'The Blackout State'
June 17, 2021 - ERCOT | Generators' Revenues Less Than Costs For 8 Out Of 10 Years
June 4, 2021