Last week, after posting the newest blog here on CCF, I immediately received a response from Peter Gleick, one of the authors of the report about water desalination that I had discussed. […]
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Energy Innovation: 6 Radical Solar Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal of reaching less than $1 a watt for complete installed solar systems by 2020. Reaching $1/watt would bring the cost of solar power […]
Will the real International Energy Agency please stand up?
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a third contradictory forecast in the […]
What Happens after the U.S. Oil Boom Goes Bust?
The Bakken crude oil formation spread out over North Dakota and Montana should give up more than 1 million barrels of oil per day next month. North Dakota is already the second-largest […]
Petrodollars: the tax fight over Alaskan oil production
In this week’s Petrodollars column from Oilgram News, Anchorage correspondent Tim Bradner reviews the important tax issues that Alaska’s state legislature faces in the new year. —————————– Alaska is putting a major […]
Water Shortages Could Dry Up Shale Gas Craze
Environmentalists won’t stop the shale gas craze. Neither will federal regulators. But a lack of water could possibly do so. And that is why drillers are looking for new ways to find […]
What’s Ahead? Lower Oil Prices, Despite Higher Extraction Costs
Nearly everyone believes that oil prices will trend higher and higher, allowing increasing amounts of oil to be extracted. This belief is based on the observation that the cost of extraction is […]
Utilities at the crossroads of the grid edge
Smart grid IT consulting powerhouse Accenture just released a series of reports that have been making some news. Most of the reports have been focused on the positive findings, including expectations of […]
The Odd Couple: Natural Gas and Renewables
The talk in Texas currently is about using its newly discovered shale gas abundance and its growing renewables capacity synergistically. But is natural gas a bridge to renewables or is it actually […]
Global Solar PV Installations Will Double, Hit Grid Parity By 2020
Continually declining solar photovoltaic prices will continue to power an international market surge, with annual installations doubling by 2020 en route to grid parity around the world, despite each international energy market […]
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