By Jeff Allen, Executive Director, Forth The federal bipartisan infrastructure bill would dedicate as much as $7.5 billion to electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the first major national investment in this important area. […]
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Wave on Wave – For Its Proponents, Wave Energy Is More Than Just Another Fish In The Sea
You may not have noticed it, but in news that feels cosmically reflective of life on Earth recently, the moon began to wobble this year — a natural phenomenon that occurs every […]
Carbon Capture’s Other Dirty Secret: Nowhere To Put It (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this assessment, we saw that the magnitude of CO2 emissions were vastly larger than the largest and best sequestration facilities built to date, and further, that the majority […]
China Grappling with Another Crippling Power Crunch
China’s tightening coal supplies, more stringent energy intensity and environmental restrictions, and soaring industrial power demand have triggered another widespread power crisis. Blackouts and brownouts have reportedly afflicted numerous provincial jurisdictions across […]
Distributed Energy Platforms a Key for Sustainable Power
The energy industry has been going through a revolution, and more and more businesses are looking to transition from non-renewable fossil fuel energy sources such as coal and oil to renewable energy […]
Renewable energy cheers revised MOPR at PJM
Minimum Offer Price Rule or MOPR topic ruled stakeholder discussions for a while at PJM Interconnection. This saga started in 2016 with Calpine complaining at FERC about “price suppression” due to state […]
Californication – Renewable Diesel Buildout Driven by Low Carbon Fuels Standards
With the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow just over a month away, it’s natural to reflect on the progress achieved since the Paris Agreement (signed at COP 21), which […]
Is China Really Turning Its Back On Coal?
We are seeing a turnaround in China’s energy strategy as the country finally pledges to end the construction of new coal plants overseas, having strongly backed coal developments at home and abroad […]
The World’s Fastest Growing Shale Play Keeps On Breaking Records
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play, having registered strong growth in oil and gas production and well activity levels in recent months, has emerged as the world’s fastest growing major shale basin, a […]
SEIA calls for solar to reach 30% of US electricity generation by 2030
The Techren solar project in Nevada. Image: Nextracker. The US should aim for solar to account for 30% of the country’s electricity generation by 2030, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association […]
