• 3 minutes e-car sales collapse
  • 6 minutes America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide
  • 11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
  • 2 days GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES
  • 6 days They pay YOU to TAKE Natural Gas
  • 2 days How Far Have We Really Gotten With Alternative Energy
  • 2 days What fool thought this was a good idea...
  • 2 hours A question...
  • 5 days Why does this keep coming up? (The Renewable Energy Land Rush Could Threaten Food Security)
  • 11 days The United States produced more crude oil than any nation, at any time.
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

  • Hitachi Halts Nuclear Megaproject In The UK

    Published 21 January 2019 | viewed 10,096 times

    Japanese technology giant Hitachi on Thursday Jan 17 announced it was suspending all further work at its Wylfa Newydd nuclear project in Anglesey, north Wales.…

  • Chevron And Occidental Join Bill Gates Backed Tech Company

    Published 14 January 2019 | viewed 23,105 times

    Chevron and Occidental Petroleum recently announced they will invest in Carbon Engineering Ltd., a Squamish, B.C. clean energy start-up company backed by among other, Bill…

  • Investors Are Turning Their Back On Coal

    Published 24 December 2018 | viewed 53,133 times

    The net zero carbon emissions movement has finally entered the mainstream for investment professionals. Despite a U.S, delegation declaring its intention to burn more fossil…

  • Why Is China Losing Interest In Nuclear Power?

    Published 19 December 2018 | viewed 37,502 times

    The future of the nuclear power industry lies in China. The Chinese are presently building more nuclear electric power generating stations than any other country.…

  • Another Nuclear Megaproject Bites The Dust

    Published 19 November 2018 | viewed 29,012 times

    Toshiba, the troubled Japanese electrical and electronics conglomerate and former owner of the bankrupt Westinghouse, Corp., decided last week cancel its Moorside nuclear project in…

  • GE's Fight For Survival

    Published 08 November 2018 | viewed 21,364 times

    Raising cash to begin retiring its huge debts, GE just announced a sale of its profitable and growing distributed generator business for $3 billion and…

  • How The Sahara Could Power The Entire World

    Published 22 September 2018 | viewed 60,901 times

    Solar and wind farms, stretched across North Africa's Saharan desert and relying solely on existing technologies, could produce enough electricity to power the entire world.…

  • Is This A Turning Point For Electricity Sales?

    Published 19 September 2018 | viewed 9,279 times

    Sales of electricity in the US have barely increased despite nine straight years of economic growth. It almost looks as if the conservation ethos for…

  • Why U.S. Electricity Sales Surged In 2018

    Published 15 September 2018 | viewed 12,231 times

    Sales of electricity in the U.S. have barely increased despite nine straight years of economic growth. It almost looks as if the conservation ethos for…

  • Southern Company Just Raised Cost Estimates For This Megaproject Again

    Published 11 August 2018 | viewed 15,693 times

    Southern Company's Georgia Power subsidiary announced yet another increase in the estimated cost to complete the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear units. At this moment…

  • Has The Movement For CO2 Controls Peaked?

    Published 19 July 2018 | viewed 6,796 times

    The signs don’t look favorable for carbon dioxide emissions controls in the U.S. The Trump administra-tion along with much of the Republican party clearly do…

  • The Best Solution For Climate Change

    Published 25 June 2018 | viewed 13,245 times

    If our longer-term goal is to reduce the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (which produces climate change) — there are only four ways…

  • Why Southern Company Just Sold Billions In Prime Assets

    Published 23 May 2018 | viewed 50,202 times

    On May 21, Southern Company, the utility holding company based in Atlanta, with core electric utility franchise areas in Georgia and Alabama, announced a multi-billion…

  • The Coal Plant Of The Future

    Published 12 May 2018 | viewed 13,847 times

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants to develop so called “Coal-Based Power Plants of the Future” according to a recent Request for Information. Well,…

  • Expect Electricity Prices To Rise Soon

    Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 20,721 times

    Electricity prices in the U.S. (in real terms) have held steady for two decades. A remarkable record achieved because of: cost cutting during the initial…

  • The World’s Most Expensive Power Project

    Published 09 April 2018 | viewed 36,315 times

    We thought that the price for non-carbon electricity had peaked when the U.K. government agreed to require UK electricity customers pay £92.50 ($130.43) per MWH…

  • U.S. Electricity Sales Fall Again

    Published 22 March 2018 | viewed 11,379 times

    Well, it happened again. 2017 was another down year for the US electric utility industry--despite a reasonably robust economy and increasing population. The 2.1 percent…

  • Outages: Utilities Repeat Mistakes

    Published 12 March 2018 | viewed 5,175 times

    So far this March, two nor’easters have pummeled New York and New England with high winds, storm surges and heavy, wet spring snow. As if…

  • Is Centrica’s Business Model Sustainable?

    Published 27 February 2018 | viewed 7,888 times

    The UK’s biggest energy retailer, Centrica had another bad year. Earnings and operating profits declined. And since 2015 Centrica’s share price has almost halved. So,…

  • Subsidies For Coal, Nuclear In The Latest Federal Budget

    Published 22 February 2018 | viewed 11,375 times

    The two year spending bill just passed by Congress and signed by the President attempts to make good on the administration's promised tilt towards coal…

Oilprice - The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News