Before the New York Public Service Commission’s vision of a grid operated by Distributed System Platform Providers (DSPPs) can become a reality, there are just a few points to hammer out — […]
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US Oil Dependency on Middle East has Hardly Changed Since 2007
The following graph shows US petroleum imports from OPEC countries starting in 1960. This includes both crude oil and petroleum products. Note: Indonesia left OPEC in 2008 but it is included here […]
Watching the Watchdogs: 10 Years of the IEA World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is the energy watchdog of the industrial world. The developed nations of the world were caught off guard by the oil crisis of 1973. They then realized […]
$548 Billion In Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies “Rig The Game” Against Renewables
In the same week that a new study found that G20 nations, including Australia, were providing $US88 billion ($A102 billion) a year in subsidies just for fossil fuel exploration, another report – […]
IEA Says Oil Supplies May Not Keep Up With Demand
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 […]
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 […]
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