Despite what appears to be a saturated oil market in 2014, oil producers around the world will struggle to meet rising demand over the next few decades. In its latest annual World […]
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Cellulosic Ethanol
The hand-wringing and soul-searching that has gone on at the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding a proposed reduction in the amount of ethanol to be blended in the gasoline in 2014 […]
Want To Hurt Russia? Lower The Price Of Oil
Why would the oil producers, who have over the years raised the price of oil at every opportunity they got suddenly agree to drop the price from roughly $120 a barrel to […]
DoE: The Clean Energy Loan Program Is Already Making a Profit for Taxpayers
According to a soon-to-be-released report produced by the Department of Energy, the government has netted about $30 million in loan guarantee interest payments since it first started supporting clean energy manufacturers and […]
Will LEDs Trigger Rebound Effects? Examining the Key Evidence
Rob Day argues that the rebounds in energy demand triggered by energy efficient lighting have been overblown. This rebuttal sets the record straight, and does so by exploring the key evidence in […]
LED Efficiency Soars in 2014
Light-emitting diode bulbs have long been far more efficient than incandescent or even compact florescent bulbs, but that gap has widened even more this year. The average efficiency of LEDs stood at […]
PG&E Takes Energy Storage to the Distribution Substation
California is the world’s biggest market for grid-scale energy storage — as long as that storage can be delivered in targeted packages that can work at the grid’s edge. That’s one lesson […]
Fixed Charges Policy and Benefits
There’s a lot of talk in California these days about imposing fixed monthly charges on residential electricity bills. The large investor-owned utilities in California have small or no fixed charges,[1] instead collecting […]
Natural gas storage on track to recover from last winter’s lows
Natural gas storage inventories usually rise over the summer months and are drawn down in the winter as the fuel is used to heat homes. via Fuel Fix http://ift.tt/1u7xbl7
How A Solar Revolution Could Be Near
Credit: ShutterstockCan we build enough carbon-free energy fast enough to avert catastrophic climate change without having to power this energy transition with fossil fuels that would undermine the whole transition? The answer […]
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