When a boiler or furnace is working it turns fuel into usable heat. Because this occurs at varying efficiencies the price of usable heat can be very different than the price of […]
Fuel Costs of Home Heating
The Future of Energy Storage Is Behind the Meter
Today, energy storage is often described as new, emerging or risky. But tomorrow, one word will suffice: mainstream. In California, we have a near perfect storm of market signals moving the entire […]
Graph of the Day: Countries with dirtiest coal power : Renew Economy
Here’s a couple of stunning graphs we dug up in an HSBC analysis of the recently completed Warsaw climate talks. This focuses on the issue of coal, where one of the main […]
Germany expands renewables targets, considers ‘virtual baseload’
Germany is expanding its renewable energy targets under a grand coalition agreement by the country’s two major political parties, but is also toying with the idea of introducing the concept of “virtual […]
Libyan crude oil production levels influence international crude oil markets
Libya\’s oil sector has been crippled by prolonged strikes at key loading ports since the end of July, removing more than 1 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of crude oil from the […]
[Closed] DISCUSSION: Germany’s tiny renewables costs
This interesting and beautiful graph was recently published by the German Renewable Energy Agency (Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien). It shows the increases of energy costs per month for the average German household […]
[Closed] DISCUSSION: Williamsport, booming gas-drilling city, stays optimistic as drilling slows
The Marcellus Shale industry, which arrived in this northern Pennsylvania city five years ago and turned Williamsport into the seventh-fastest-growing area in the nation, appears to have lost some momentum. Economic activity […]
NREL: News – NREL Releases Renewable Energy Data Book Detailing Growing Industry in 2012
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2012 Renewable Energy Data Book on behalf of the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The annual report is an […]
The Battery Storage System That Could Close Down Coal Power
You don’t have to go far inside the headquarters of German battery storage company Younicos, or even its website for that matter, to find out what it is about. “Let the fossils […]
More Evidence That America May Have Reached ‘Peak Car’
It\’s a bit surreal when an academic study reads like a biography. Whenever a new study on the decline of driving in America is released, it\’s almost like reading a chapter of […]
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