Net metering was one of the solar energy industry’s hottest topics in 2013 — and barely a month into 2014 it’s promising to stay that way. via Solar Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com […]
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Renewable Energy Finance Outlook for 2014: Where Will the Cash Flow?
The world of renewable energy finance is vast: encompassing everything from venture capital funding for innovative start-ups, to research and development (R&D) and manufacturing expansion spending, to project finance and all the […]
Why Following EIA Forecasts is Dangerous for the US
Think back to early 2004. Oil cost around $40 per barrel—on the high side compared to the previous few decades but not much out of the ordinary. Gasoline still cost under $2.00 […]
Chinese Regulator Warns about Credit Risks of Coal Companies
Coal prices in China declined by 16% in 2013 as the economy cooled and the government stepped up efforts to curtail air pollution, according to Bloomberg. China is the largest producer and […]
EIA now providing more detail on electric capacity additions and retirements
Beginning in December 2013, new tables and maps in the Electric Power Monthly provide detailed accounting of generator additions and retirements, as well as their effects on total capacity by fuel and […]
Sugarcane Ethanol and Sustainability
The debate over America’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), and the role that advanced biofuels like sugarcane ethanol play in meeting our clean energy goals, has largely focused on what the Environmental Protection […]
Methane Leakage and Impact Measurement
Cornell professors Richard Howarth, Renee Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea ignited a controversy in 2011 when they published a study claiming that, due to escaped methane, emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas were […]
Natural Gas and Changing Industry
Ron, welcome. You are making a presentation at the Money-Show conferencein Orlando in late January. What is the gist of your presentation? Ron Muhlenkamp: The gist of my presentation is that natural […]
Can Natural Gas Weather The Cold?
If natural gas is going to save America, boost our economy, roll back carbon emissions and bring back our Golden Age of energy, we probably should determine if it can stand the […]
Why China’s 2014 oil imports should recover from 2013’s hangover
Aside from improvements in global economic activity and industrial production, China could recover from a hangover in 2013. While domestic activity slowed throughout 2011 and 2012, the country continued to import oil […]
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