I am a reporter. I’m also an author, filmmaker, and public speaker. I’ve been writing about energy, power, and politics for more than 30 years. My credo is simple: Energy realism is energy humanism. Spotlighting the essentiality of affordable energy and power to modern society is my purpose and my passion. My goal here on Substack is to provide readers with sober reporting and analysis that’s backed by numbers and data-rich charts.

My first book, Pipe Dreams, spotlighted the rise and fall of Enron. My sixth and most-recent is A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. I have produced three documentaries including my latest, a mini-documentary called Sunblock: The Global Fight To Save Farmland From Big Solar. Along with Tyson Culver, I’m also the producer of a five-part series, Juice: Power, Politics, and the Grid, available for free on YouTube. I was also the executive producer of the 2019 feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World. I live in Austin with my wife, Lorin, who is an art teacher, photographer, and master potter. 

I am active on Substack Notes. f you have any questions or feedback, please email me: robert (at) robertbryce.com. Thanks for your support.

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I love Substack. I am thrilled to be part of the new era of journalism that’s happening here. Over the course of my (long) career, I have written for most of the name-brand legacy media outlets. But today, it’s clear that the corporate press is dying. Here on Substack, I can write what I want, how I want, when I want, with the charts, photos, and graphics that I choose, and that freedom is particularly satisfying at this stage in my career. As Matt Taibbi notes on his site, “subscriber support has made journalistic risk-taking possible on a scale staff writers in big organizations today can no longer imagine.”

I agree with that 100%.

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What You Will Get:

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What Critics Say

Bryce's writing is "unsentimental, unsparing, and impassioned; and if you'll excuse the pun, it is precisely the kind of journalism we need to hold truth to power."

Wall Street Journal

Bryce "reveals himself in the end as something of a visionary and perhaps even a revolutionary."

New York Times

Nor should his informed skepticism be mistaken for cynicism or a sense of futility. His realistic portrayal of our energy situation is timely and important, dismissing widespread notions of quick-and-easy solutions and making a strong case that the current yearning for energy self-sufficiency... is both unattainable and inconsistent with the basis of much of our post-World War II success.

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While I like to have all of my articles read as widely as possible, I also have a duty to provide exclusive content to paid subscribers. Therefore, whenever I publish a free article, please spread it far and wide. Forwarding paid-subscriber-only emails is fine, too, if done occasionally.

Can You Hire Me To Speak At Your Event?

Yes. I have given more than 550 invited or keynote lectures to groups of all kinds, ranging from the Marine Corps War College to the Sydney Institute. Need a speaker for an upcoming event? Please email me, robert (at) robertbryce.com. Thanks again.