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Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

Contributor since: 08 Dec 2015

Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

Leonard S. Hyman is an economist and financial analyst specializing in the energy sector. He headed utility equity research at a major brokerage house and has provided advice on industry organization, regulation, privatization, risk management  and finance to  investment bankers,  governments and private firms, including one effort to place nuclear fusion reactors on the moon. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and author, co-author or editor of six books including  America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future and  Energy Risk Management: A Primer for the Utility Industry. 

You can find Leonard Hyman's lastest book Electricity Acts on Amazon 


William I. Tilles is a senior industry advisor and speaker on energy and finance. After starting his career at a bond rating agency, he turned to equities and headed utility equity research at two major brokerage houses and then became a portfolio manager investing in long/short global utility equities. For a time he ran the largest long/short utilities equity book in the world. Before going into finance, Mr. Tilles taught political science .

Latest articles from Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

  • Why Biden's State Of The Union Remarks About Oil And Gas Make Sense

    Published 09 February 2023 | viewed 5,724 times

    During the State of the Union address, President Biden wandered off script for a minute and ad-libbed, “We’re going to need oil for another decade.”…

  • Small Modular Reactors Struggle With Scalability

    Published 06 February 2023 | viewed 7,181 times

    Nuclear power is back in the headlines. Its proponents say, “We need renewables and nuclear. Maybe, though, not the same kind of nuclear as before.…

  • The ExxonMobil Papers

    Published 25 January 2023 | viewed 5,309 times

    Nestled between a large and colorful picture of starchy endosperm and an article about signaling between parasite and host integrates, in the 13 January 2023…

  • Ripe For Disruption: U.S. Power Generators Must Act

    Published 04 January 2023 | viewed 8,986 times

    Winter storm Elliott, a mass of frigid, arctic air and blizzard conditions enveloped much of the eastern two thirds of the US with the worst…

  • Who Is Going To Pay For The Global Electrification Push?

    Published 02 January 2023 | viewed 6,267 times

    For more than a decade, the electricity market has stood still on a growth basis. Electricity generated (measured in kwh) rose 3.8% from 2010 to…

  • The Right Strategy For Oil Companies In 2023

    Published 31 December 2022 | viewed 14,957 times

    Oil and gas producers seemingly have settled on a strategy. OPEC and Russia will limit production and let prices rise during a global war-famine-pandemic. OPEC…

  • Is The Texas Grid Well Prepared For Another Arctic Blast?

    Published 20 December 2022 | viewed 6,520 times

    Beginning this Thursday (December 22, 2022), another cold front will engulf Texas. Night time low temperatures in Dallas, TX for example are forecast to be…

  • 5 Important Energy Questions For 2023

    Published 08 December 2022 | viewed 4,068 times

    With 2022 ending, we have to do what all pundits do, look back on the past year and pontificate about next year—which most pundits do…

  • The Impact of Energy Inflation: A $2-3 Trillion Wealth Transfer

    Published 06 December 2022 | viewed 7,014 times

    Energy prices remain stable for years, then spike, then revert back to old levels. Occasionally as in the 1970s during the Oil Embargo and Energy…

  • Are Small Scale Modular Reactors Becoming Too Expensive?

    Published 21 November 2022 | viewed 7,283 times

    According to industry reports the builders of the NuScale small modular reactor (SMR) project recently submitted revised cost estimates to their muni and co-op partners.…

  • Reading The Tea Leaves In Energy Markets

    Published 16 November 2022 | viewed 2,598 times

    The U.S. public opinion “experts” and pundits pontificated before last week’s election. Then they pontificated afterwards. explaining what they got wrong. They get paid both…

  • The Future Of The Grid: More Government, Less Private?

    Published 09 November 2022 | viewed 1,987 times

    The European Space Agency proposes to build a solar power satellite, not a new idea. NASA looked at the concept over twenty years ago and…

  • A Painkiller For Gas Price Spikes

    Published 25 October 2022 | viewed 2,338 times

    As Oilprice readers know, the price of energy has spiked (to put it mildly) in Europe. Sample residential bills have more than doubled in some…

  • Florida’s Power Grid Desperately Needs An Overhaul

    Published 04 October 2022 | viewed 2,368 times

    Ben Franklin, one of the honorary founders of the electricity business, said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With that…

  • Financing America’s Electric Future

    Published 07 September 2022 | viewed 2,081 times

    Back in 1965, a region-wide power outage darkened the entire Northeast and suddenly the U.S. electricity industry discovered it had a reliability problem. A scant…

  • U.S. Utilities Desperately Need To Spend More On Energy Infrastructure

    Published 29 August 2022 | viewed 3,511 times

    Since the 1970s, energy has played a diminishing role in economic growth with the offshoring of industrial production sometimes cited as a reason, but increased…

  • The Inflation Reduction Act Falls Short On Emissions Regulation

    Published 25 August 2022 | viewed 1,969 times

    When, early this year, the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)  throttled the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to reduce carbon emissions on…

  • U.S. Utilities Embark On Huge Spending Spree, But There’s A Catch

    Published 15 August 2022 | viewed 6,056 times

    Electric utility managers run in herds so to speak. Decades ago they decided to build nuclear-generating stations and almost every utility company that could did…

  • The Inflation Reduction Act Is A Game-Changer For Decarbonization

    Published 10 August 2022 | viewed 5,114 times

    The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the Biden administration’s legislative triumph of August 2022. But despite its name, it will plow more than $170 billion…

  • Europe’s Big And Expensive Energy Mistake

    Published 08 July 2022 | viewed 20,841 times

    France plans to renationalize EDF, its giant utility. That doesn’t sound like a big deal because the government already owns 84% of EDF’s outstanding shares.…

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