There was a lot of talk last year about coal resources needing to be left in the ground if the world was to reach its 2-degree-celsius reduction environmental targets.The suggestion was that […]
How Much Oil Output Halted Due to Low Prices? Just 0.1%
After a year of low oil prices, only 0.1 percent of global production has been curtailed because it’s unprofitable, according to a report from consultants Wood Mackenzie Ltd. that highlights the industry’s […]
Rethinking the Airplane, for Climate’s Sake
It will never soar into the wild blue yonder, but the dusty Peterbilt truck parked outside a hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center here may represent the future of low-carbon aviation.Perched […]
Paris and Building on the Future
The Paris Agreement, a truly landmark climate accord, which was gaveled through on Saturday, December 12, 2015, at 7:26 pm (Paris time) at the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21), checks all […]
California Net Metering 2.0 Keeps Retail Rates for Rooftop Solar
California regulators have proposed a future net metering regime that will preserve retail payments for residential rooftop PV.However, the proposal would add new interconnection costs and non-bypassable charges to distributed solar systems, […]
This Suggests An Oil Price Recovery Might Be On Its Way
Oil futures prices are below $38 but there is a glimmer of hope in EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) released today–world consumption increased in November and supply fell.OPEC did what everyone expected […]
Carbon Emissions Sources and Measurement
With world leaders meeting in Paris this week and next to formulate plans for tackling carbon emissions, I believe it’s critical to understand the source of those emissions. After all, if you […]
EIA expands monthly reporting of crude oil production with new data on API gravity
New data released yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that for the first nine months of 2015, most (50.8%) of the crude oil produced in the Lower 48 states were […]
Oil Price Rebound Not Imminent, But Underway
Oil markets will remain depressed through the fourth quarter of this year as oil storage levels continue to rise around the world.The closely watched EIA figures detailing weekly gains in inventory levels […]
Wind and solar keep getting cheaper and cheaper
A new analysis suggests that we continue to move into a world in which it makes more economic sense to draw electricity from the sun or the winds, rather than from fossil […]
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