Two recent wins for General Electric’s Grid IQ offering signal not just where GE is headed. They also suggest two important trends for 2012. First, the move to “cloud-based” hosted services is […]
It costs 3.5 cents to save a kilowatt-hour in energy efficiency. That’s really cheap—as long as the low-hanging fruit holds out. Two things you should know about energy efficiency: it’s still the […]
Competition for financing for US renewable energy projects will become fiercer following the expiration of the cash grant programme, but its absence will see alternative financing mechanisms take hold and new tax […]
Natural gas forward market prices (as of December 28, 2011) signal a continuation of low natural gas prices into 2012. Winter 2011-2012 forward prices were recently the lowest in over ten years, […]
via Solar pushes back on natural gas in NJ : Clean Energy Authority. There’s an ambiguous perception in New Jersey that ratepayers are carrying the solar industry with subsidies. By nudging the decoupling […]
China Increases Target for Wind Power Capacity to 1,000 GW by 2050 via Renewable Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com The National Energy Administration of China has set a series of development goals for […]
German Solar Output Increases by 60% in 2011 Just weeks after the solar industry installed the one millionth system in Germany, the country’s solar trade association announced that the technology accounted for […]
China Sets New Record For Renewable Energy Storage via Forbes – Energy by Ucilia Wang on 1/4/12 BYD Co., which counts Warren Buffett as an investor, has completed the world’s largest lithium-ion […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set limits on mercury and other dangerous emissions from power plants, much to the chagrin of industry officials and Republican legislators who wanted the agency […]
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