The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (only available in .PDF file format until later this week) includes many cases that provide alternate projections of energy markets under a variety of different assumptions. Detailed […]
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A Fresh Look at Oil’s Long Goodbye
My bedtime reading tonight is “Oil: The Next Revolution – The unprecedented upsurge of oil production capacity and what it means for the world.” This mind-bending report points to a prolonged period […]
Photovoltaic Systems Share Characteristics of “Real Property”
Photovoltaic (PV) systems may meet many of the important criteria to be considered real property — a status that could make them eligible for easier financing — a new report by the […]
The Arithmetic Of Shale Gas
There are a few societal costs to the development of shale gas. Potential contamination of groundwater, complications in treating and recycling water used in fracking. Then there’s air pollution from leaking methane […]
North American spot crude oil benchmarks likely diverging due to bottlenecks – Today in Energy – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
West Texas Intermediate at Cushing, Oklahoma (WTI Cushing), a light, sweet crude grade, is North America’s most closely observed crude oil price benchmark and the underlying commodity of the NYMEX crude futures […]
Can Solar Fuels Avert an Imminent Petroleum Fuels Crisis?
In 2004, humanity used 471 EJ of energy2, and while the relative proportion of each contributing energy source has remained modestly constant, it is clear that at a rise to 504 EJ […]
Significant potential for plug-in vehicles exists in U.S. housing stock
The housing stock in the United States could support significant numbers of plug-in electric vehicles. Of households that own at least one car, an estimated 49% (49.6 million housing units) park within […]
Oil Price Differentials: Caught Between the Sands and the Pipelines
One of oil’s most important characteristics is its fungibility, which means that a barrel of refined oil from Texas is equivalent to one from Saudi Arabia or Nigeria or anywhere else in […]
The U.S. Could Run on 80-Percent Renewable Electricity by 2050
It won’t be cheap, or easy. But it’s technically feasible for the United States to get 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050, according to a new report from […]
Who Owns Solar?
Along with the emergence of three distinct ownership models (customer-owned, third-party-owned, and utility-owned), the U.S. photovoltaic (PV) market has grown, over the last ten years, at an average annual rate of approximately […]
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