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Gas Network Retirement Is Becoming A Real Utility Planning Tool
Gas utilities have a structural problem in an electrifying economy. Customers can stop using gas one building at a time, while most of the physical network remains in service until enough neighboring […]
One of Australia’s biggest pumped hydro projects cancelled due to “economic and timing challenges”
One of the largest pumped hydro schemes planned for Australia has been pulled by its developer due to rising costs and delays. The post One of Australia’s biggest pumped hydro projects cancelled […]
Record Fuel Prices Accelerate Europe’s EV Sales
Record-high gasoline and diesel prices across Europe are accelerating a shift toward electric vehicles and hybrids while new registrations of conventional cars continue to plummet by double digits in key markets. Total […]
Grid Constraints Curtailed 119 GW of Renewables in India in September
Grid, flexibility, and transmission constraints amid limited battery storage forced India to curtail as much as 118.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power capacity in September, data by India’s JMK Research […]
Jigar Shah blames the wrong target for rising electricity bills
Guy Caruso is a retired administrator for the Energy Information Administration. He was formerly with CSIS. With over forty years in energy markets, policy and security, including as administrator of the U.S. […]
Why Fossil Fuel Demand Can Rise Even as Clean Energy Wins Terrain
French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has offered energy-transition skeptics an appealing historical argument. In More and More and More, he argues that humanity has never really moved from one energy source to another. […]
Home battery boom and hours of free power are re-shaping how consumers use the grid
Consumers are changing the way they use the grid, with the Solar Sharer causing a demand spike in middle of the day, and home batteries flatting evening peaks. The post Home battery […]
Electric Giants Say They Already Have the Tools to Fix the AI Power Crunch
The energy demand boom being driven by the artificial intelligence era is placing unprecedented strain on global energy infrastructure. Not only are the world’s energy production capacities – and especially clean energy […]
Call for greater focus on maintenance as rooftop solar fleet grows in Australia
Australia leads the world in rooftop solar per capita with more than 28 GW installed but an industry expert says inadequate inspection and maintenance programs mean many of these assets could fail […]