Investment bank Deutsche Bank is predicting that solar systems will be at grid parity in up to 80 per cent of the global market within 2 years, and says the collapse in […]
Deutsche Bank Predicts Solar Grid Parity In 80% Of Global Market By 2017
Policy Uncertainty Drives 25% Of Wind Industry Suppliers Out Of Business
More than 120 suppliers have collapsed or stayed out of the wind business in the past two years, including 88 from Asia, 23 from Europe and 18 from North America, as the […]
Latest Numbers Reveal The Bakken Is Close To Peaking
It is has now been confirmed. The first measured 24 hour production from Bakken wells is a very good predictor of the future production of that well. And it has also been […]
The One Chart That Shows Why 2014 Was a Breakthrough Year for Utility-Scale Solar in America
Over the next two years, America will build roughly 13 gigawatts of utility-scale solar PV plants. When up and running, those projects will surpass the country’s cumulative solar capacity across all sectors […]
Solar And Wind Power Are Changing Net Load Shapes In CA
As more solar and wind electric generating capacity is added in California, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is facing an increasingly different […]
Norway’s Oil Decline Accelerating
New oil projects are being scrapped in Norway amid falling production and low oil prices. Long held up as the model for managing oil abundance, Norway has painstakingly sought to prevent the […]
Is The Arctic Dream Dead?
The Arctic offshore will be drilled; it’s only a matter of time. However, the dream to have commercially viable production in the immediate future may very well be dead. Continually slumping oil […]
US crude imports from Non-OPEC countries peaked 10 years before tight oil boom
In part 3 of this series on the impact of US tight oil, we look at US crude oil imports from Non-OPEC countries. Excluding Canada – which is a special case due […]
The Oil Glut And An Inevtiable Oil Price Rebound
The world is awash in oil, I’m hearing. The problem is, it’s fairly expensive oil. Take for example Canada. The country that has managed to increase its production of oil by a […]
China Pollution Targets and Future Emissions Goals
The Chinese government announced it would cap coal use by 2020. The Chinese State Council, or cabinet, said the peak would be 4.2 billion tonnes, a one-sixth increase over current consumption. This […]
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