China quietly cut its 2020 goals for shale gas, a goal that was so ambitious that few took the number seriously. The goal – to ramp up from zero commercial production of […]
China Shale Development and Shriking Expectations
The saga of Hinkley Point C: Europe’s key nuclear decision
The British government has been attempting since 2005 to revive nuclear ordering in the U.K. The U.K. has been one of the most strategically important markets for nuclear power to crack if […]
Digitizing oil and gas production
The rapid progress of technology such as big data and analytics, sensors, and control systems offers oil and gas companies the chance to automate high-cost, dangerous, or error-prone tasks. Most oil and […]
Rooftop solar: Grid parity coming in more than half of US states
Predicting the arrival of solar energy for electricity that is as cheap as local electricity prices is actually harder than predicting the sunrise. But UCS’s new solar infographic tells this exciting crossover point is […]
The 2,000MW coal generator the NSW government sold for $0
AGL Energy said on Thursday that it had effectively bought the 2,000W Liddell coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley for zero dollars. The give-away by the NSW government – which completed […]
Russia-China deal will supply Siberian natural gas to China’s northern, eastern provinces
China’s natural gas demand has been growing as the government seeks to move away from coal in favor of cleaner fuels. According to EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) Reference case, demand […]
Tech Talk – Changes in global supply and demand
At the beginning of the month I pointed out that there are three components to the coming Energy Mess. The first of these is the steady increase in global demand for oil […]
Utility industry wants to promote EVs to ‘remain viable’
The Edison Electric Institute, the power industry’s main trade group, is calling on utilities to better promote electric cars in order to stimulate demand for electricity and help reverse trends that threaten […]
German solar feed-in tariffs shown to be wildly successful
The Brattle Group recently completed a report on Germany’s past decade of solar energy policies and progress for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). There’s some missed messaging and unhelpful messaging in there, […]
Nine reasons why thermal coal is struggling (and will continue to do so)
Since peaking in January 2011, the price of thermal coal has fallen 51% (Chart 1). Like any commodity, price is driven by the simple dynamics of supply and demand and supply has […]
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