Just like the famous Gold Rushes of the 19th century, US shale gas development is turning out to be a limited and regional market opportunity. Across the Atlantic, the high financial and […]
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Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower
This is a final guest post of Kris de Decker, founder and writer at Low-tech Magazine, an internet publication highlighting the need for elegant yet simple sustainable energy technologies. We published a […]
RE ‘set for 2030 China surge’
Wind and solar – particularly distributed PV – are in line to benefit as renewables ramp up to account for half of China’s generating capacity by 2030, according to analyst Bloomberg New […]
US Energy Department Claims the Cost of Solar Power will Fall 75% by 2020
Not one to shy away from overstatement, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is not a writer we would normally quote extensively; well-renowned as the Telegraph newspaper is, for which he frequently writes in the Business […]
FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff: Solar ‘Is Going to Overtake Everything’
If anybody doubts that federal energy regulators are aware of the rapidly changing electricity landscape, they should talk to Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “Solar is growing […]
Rising RINs price is driving some companies to boost their ethanol activities
US refiners are leaping more into physical biofuels blending, even as the US government appears to be pondering a cut in renewables mandates. This month PBF Energy and Alon USA both told analysts […]
Global oil price will decline through end of 2013, EIA forecasts
The global benchmark price of crude oil will fall through the end of 2013, as the United States continues to pump more oil and cut its need for imports, the federal Energy […]
NRG Uses Smart Plugs as an Energy Management Platform
Texas has some serious grid reliability issues. But that’s not the reason that energy retailer Reliant is offering its latest program to large commercial clients. Reliant, owned by NRG Energy, will offer […]
Here’s How Chinese Firms Will Produce Solar for 36 Cents per Watt
From the end of 2010 until the first quarter of this year, leading Chinese solar companies were able to drop the cost of manufacturing multicrystalline solar modules by 54 percent. Their ability […]
Unconventional oil and gas making U.S. more secure
Higher oil and gas production and improvements in the resulting impact on the environment has helped lower the United States’ energy security risk by six percent, according to a new report on […]
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