Doug Staker, the VP of Business Development at Demand Energy, would like to own a Tesla Model S. Unfortunately, he has two children in college and at least one responsible adult household […]

Crude oil futures contracts allow crude to be bought and sold for delivery at specific dates in the future, meaning market participants can lock in a price today for the future delivery […]

The era of the European power market being dominated by large utilities is steadily drawing to a close, admits RWE’s chief economist, presenting both opportunities and challenges for renewables. via http://www.rechargenews.com http://www.rechargenews.com/news/europe_africa/article1338077.ece

Over the last few years, the handful of startups developing virtual energy auditing services have analyzed over a billion square feet of commercial buildings. Virtual audits, called ‘no-touch audits’ or ‘rapid energy […]

Electric utilities are facing a very challenging environment. Technologies like solar could undermine growth, risking that capital demands for maintaining infrastructure will increase the cost of borrowing, which, with declining demand, lead […]

Various products have hit the market that attempt to overcome a major hurdle to solar financing and securitization: the lack of standardized metrics that can provide a measuring stick against which financial […]

The new three-year strategic plan from California’s grid operator has a big takeaway. “Things were coming at us fast,” explained California ISO Senior Public Information Officer Steven Greenlee. “We reduced the new […]

With wages increasing and strikes engulfing the country, the massive cheap labor force that has helped fuel China’s economic boom by underselling its competitors may be coming to  an end, reports suggest. […]

Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available broadly on the internet, […]

Motor group AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline for Wednesday was $3.50, down more than 30 cents from the same time last year. Refiners are starting […]