Beginning in December 2013, new tables and maps in the Electric Power Monthly provide detailed accounting of generator additions and retirements, as well as their effects on total capacity by fuel and […]

A new report compiled in consultation with the White House and a pool of clean-energy experts suggests that clean-coal technology is too embryonic to use as a base for America’s new climate […]

Victorian network operator SP Ausnet has commissioned a 1MW/1MWh battery storage facility that could herald a new approach to dealing with peak demand, and avoid future costly network upgrades. SP Ausnet is […]

Today’s Graph of the Day comes from leading Australian solar provider Energy Matters, which has released a table that compares the return on investment on rooftop solar in various state, and compares […]

To illustrate the importance of the post-2017 investment tax credit (ITC), we have provided the following tables to compare certain electricity offtake prices for solar with the cost of capital and required […]

The pipeline for energy efficiency projects is set to get a big boost from institutional investors. Two organizations, Joule Assets and Kilowatt Financial, have unveiled separate $100 million funds for efficiency projects. […]

In 2017 the federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) will be cut by 66 percent, falling from 30 percent to 10 percent of the total solar project value. This legislative change will […]

In recent years, the global solar market has looked a lot like a monarchy, with Europe reigning as king of installations. But Europe is quickly losing its crown as the industry\’s playing […]

SolarCity (SCTY) just acquired privately held financial technology firm Common Assets. The distributed energy financier and installer also just announced that it will offer a web-based investment platform to allow \”individuals and […]

Capacity factors are an important measure of electric generator usage. In December 2013, EIA began publishing tables of monthly capacity factors for 16 different fossil and non-fossil fuel and technology combinations in […]