Recent news that Austin Energy is looking to sign a 25-year solar energy PPA for less than 5 cents per kilowatt-hour is not just solar notable, it’s utility notable. (Austin Energy is seeking city […]
SolarCity Freezes Energy Storage Program as Utilities Resist Grid Connections
SolarCity Corp., the biggest developer of U.S. rooftop solar panels, halted efforts to install and connect systems that include batteries for power storage because California’s utilities are reluctant to link them to […]
Radiator Cozies Cut Boiler Use by up to 20 Percent
Even though the weather is pushing toward a balmy 40℉ in much of the U.S., it’s been a long, cold winter for much of the country. If you’re one of the tens […]
5 Issues That Keep Utility Execs Up at Night
Two recent surveys of power and utility executives reinforce previous research showing that the industry knows that a transformation is coming. But dig a little deeper into the findings, and there is […]
Panasonic Looks to California for Lessons on Solar-Storage Integration : Greentech Media
Panasonic is laying the groundwork for a massive networked deployment of lithium-ion batteries in solar-equipped homes and businesses to solve Japan’s post-Fukushima energy crisis — and it’s looking to California and other […]
America’s Largest Grid Operator: Massive Renewables Push Won’t Be a Problem
PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest power transmission grid organization, announced recently that wind and solar power could generate about 30 percent of PJM’s total electricity for its territory covering the Mid-Atlantic region […]
Will LNG prices in Asia continue to be oil-linked?
The simple answer to that question is that there is no simple answer. Historically, LNG prices were linked to oil because LNG was displacing oil and that practice continued until US LNG […]
Shale, the Last Oil and Gas Train: Interview with Arthur Berman
How much faith can we put in our ability to decipher all the numbers out there telling us the US is closing in on its cornering of the global oil market? There’s […]
Beginning of the End? Oil Companies Cut Back on Spending
Steve Kopits recently gave a presentation explaining our current predicament: the cost of oil extraction has been rising rapidly (10.9% per year) but oil prices have been flat. Major oil companies are finding their […]
Could Minnesota’s ‘value of solar’ make everyone a winner?
On Wednesday, Minnesota became the first state to allow utilities a new method of contracting with distributed solar producers, called the market-based “value of solar.” If adopted by utilities, it will fundamentally […]
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