Around the world, new government mandates and stimulus funding have catalyzed the deployment of smart meters. In the U.S. alone, $3.4 billion allocated from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding will be […]
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FERC’s Energy Storage Ruling Could Jump-Start Big Batteries
If the price of grid-scale energy storage fell to zero dollars per megawatt-hour, regulators and utilities would still be puzzled in how to deploy the boon of energy storage. That’s because storage […]
Natural gas liquids prices continue to creep up with support from oil’s rally
Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are another component of upstream energy production Natural gas liquids, or NGLs, refer to a group of hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, butanes, and pentanes) that are often… via Market […]
Enhanced takeaway solutions stabilize WTI-Bakken spread, positive outlook
Increased takeaway solutions from the booming Bakken region have helped differentials to close and stabilize. via Market Realist http://marketrealist.com/2013/07/enhanced-takeaway-solutions-stabilize-wti-bakken-spread/
The Big Question: Do Domestic Content Rules Help or Hurt Renewables?
Over the past few years the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been called upon to investigate cases of domestic content rules (DCR, also known as local content rules or LCR) in renewable […]
California Is Proof That Energy Efficiency Works
California’s 40 years of remarkable success in using energy efficiency to avoid dirty power generation and save utility customers billions, as detailed in a new NRDC fact sheet released this week, offers valuable lessons […]
Why 100% renewables? Because it is inevitable
The transition from fossil fuels to renewables is inevitable. Fossil fuels are finite, but will be dumped before they are exhausted on basis of cost. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/why-100-renewables-42697?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-100-renewables-42697
Increased U.S. coal consumption met by burning through stockpiles
Coal inventories at power plants dropped below the monthly five-year average in April, the first time this has happened since December 2011. The decline in stockpiles occurred as coal burn increased across […]
MIT Explains Why Toyota and GM are Pushing Hydrogen
Hydrogen fuel cell cars have been mired in controversy since the Bush administration dedicated $1.2 Billion for their research and development in 2003 – what with fracking, cost of updating infrastructure, cancer […]
How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last? We Have an Answer …
How long do electric car batteries last? It’s a common enough question, and one that really hasn’t had an answer … until recently, that is. Plug In America did a survey of […]