OPEC has been the most talked about international organization among investors, analysts and international political lobbies in the last few months. When OPEC speaks, the world listens in rapt attention as it […]

The United States remained the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2014, according to EIA estimates. U.S. hydrocarbon production continues to exceed that of both Russia and Saudi […]

Battery storage could make peaking gas plants – currently an essential tool for meeting variations in peak demand – virtually redundant. It’s just one of a number of changes predicts as storage […]

Forget the threat of solar and battery-equipped customers defecting from the grid. The real threat for utilities unwilling to adapt to grid-connected customers installing ever-cheaper solar and energy storage technologies is “load […]

One of the papers included in the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity looked at how the shale gas boom has affected the U.S. economically. Shale gas has indeed lowered natural gas prices. […]

Although securitization has been limited in the residential solar sector thus far, most in the industry believe it’s an inevitability. But if more banks are going to package portfolios of solar projects […]

Back in early 2007, just as the first signs of the bursting housing and credit bubble were becoming visible, one of the primary harbingers of impending doom was banks slowly but surely […]

Although pumped hydroelectric storage makes up most of the total electricity storage capacity in the United States, nonhydro storage has doubled in electric power sector capacity from 160 megawatts (MW) to nearly […]