In late October of this year, Toyota finally began U.S. customer deliveries of its long-awaited Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle and by the end of 2015 it should be highest volume FCV […]
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Disruptive Deceptions: How Electric Utilities Stifled Rooftop Solar
In January 2013, the Edison Electric Institute, an investor-owned electric utility trade group based in Washington DC, published a report describing the financial risks posed by distributed energy resources for electric utilities […]
New legislation affects U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Two recently enacted laws authorize significant sales of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next decade. The Bipartisan Budget Act authorizes the sale of 58 million barrels of […]
Renewables Grew to 15.5% of US Electricity Capacity in 2014
A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1HWWj7y
The Coming Electrification of Everything
At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives. From cars to scooters to […]
This Suggests An Oil Price Recovery Might Be On Its Way
Oil futures prices are below $38 but there is a glimmer of hope in EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) released today–world consumption increased in November and supply fell.OPEC did what everyone expected […]
Is 2015 The Final Oil Production Peak?
The below charts were derived from the data published by a very reputable oil and gas analyst and forecaster in Texas. Because the firm charges for their data forecast I am at […]
Carbon Emissions Sources and Measurement
With world leaders meeting in Paris this week and next to formulate plans for tackling carbon emissions, I believe it’s critical to understand the source of those emissions. After all, if you […]
Oil Price Rebound Might Come Too Late For These Bakken Producers
After years of following developments in extraction of light tight oil (LTO) in the Bakken, the oil price, studying actual well production data from the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC) and the […]
EIA expands monthly reporting of crude oil production with new data on API gravity
New data released yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that for the first nine months of 2015, most (50.8%) of the crude oil produced in the Lower 48 states were […]
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