Spending on infrastructure to deliver power to homes and businesses has increased steadily over the past 10 years as utilities build, upgrade, and replace station equipment, poles, fixtures, and overhead lines and […]
Cheap Renewables Are Transforming the Global Electricity Business
Renewables are not yet the least costly option in every market, writes Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies Australasia at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), but the […]
US Renewable Energy Generation Now ‘Within Striking Distance’ of Nuclear
Last year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance defined renewable energy as the “new normal" in its Sustainable Energy in America Factbook. This year’s edition affirms that finding. While U.S. clean energy installations lagged, […]
Why Solar Is on a Path to Dominance
Despite the Trump administration’s recent decision to levy a 30 percent tariff on solar, we see tremendous opportunity ahead for the industry. In the next year, the solar industry will develop, construct […]
Grid Defection Is On the Rise in Puerto Rico
Orocovis sits right in the mountainous middle of Puerto Rico. It’s one of the island’s “more remote areas with challenging terrain” that on Thursday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said may […]
EV Charging Practices Could Create Grid Constraints
The World Economic Forum has found electric vehicles could slash travel costs and emissions in cities — but only if policymakers heed certain guidelines. Current moves to foster EV adoption risk stressing […]
Trump Can’t Save Coal: More Capacity Closed in 2018 Than First Three Years of Obama Administration
Last week, the Sierra Club announced the latest U.S. coal plant to close: FirstEnergy’s Pleasants Power Station in West Virginia. It’s No. 268 in a long line of U.S. coal plants that […]
The Shale Boom Might Not Last Long | OilPrice.com
U.S. shale is growing at a scorching rate, but will the shale industry be around for the long haul? A new study calls into question the heady projections for shale oil and […]
U.S. monthly crude oil production exceeds 10 million barrels per day, highest since 1970
U.S. crude oil production reached 10.038 million barrels per day (b/d) in November 2017, according to EIAs latest Petroleum Supply Monthly. Novembers production is the first time since 1970 that monthly U.S. […]
Calming Chicken Little: An EV Grid Tale Without the Scary Ending
When kids hear the fairy tale Chicken Little, they learn that a confused little bird is hit on the head with an acorn and concludes the sky is falling. It then manages […]