Talk to a plastics processor or buyer in South America, and watch their eyes light up when the subject turns to the shale gas boom and resulting petrochemical renaissance to their north. […]

September 25, 2013 Natural gas generation lower than last year because of differences in relative fuel prices via Today in Energy RSS Feed http://199.36.140.204/todayinenergy/detail/2013-09-25/natural-gas-generation-lower-last-year-because-differences-relative

The time has come: the new IPCC report is here! After several years of work by over 800 scientists from around the world, and after days of extensive discussion at the IPCC […]

Solar power capacity installed around the world this year will beat wind for the first time driven by stronger policy support in key markets, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. via Fuel […]

“Of the $2.6 billion of cleantech venture capital investment in 2012 in California, $1.45 billion included corporate investors,” according to Cleantech Investment: A Decade of California’s Evolving Portfolio, a survey of California […]

Retail electricity customers of Texas power provider Green Mountain Energy can now choose 100 percent solar-generated electricity for a 1 cent per kilowatt-hour premium. Texas has become an intensely competitive market since […]

A new phrase has entered our energy lexicon—peak oil demand. The essential idea: prophets of doom who warned about a looming global petroleum shortfall (“peak oil”) were wrong; instead of a downturn […]

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