The EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook for 2013 projects a continuation of the rebalancing occurring in electricity generation in the USA (See figure 1), with gas rising to 30% of the US electricity […]
LNG imports and nuclear energy have long played a key role in Japan’s electricity generation, as the country lacks domestic natural resources. However, since the Fukushima incident, Japan has increasingly been relying […]
For the first eleven months of 2013, natural gas consumption in the electric power sector was below 2012 levels because of relatively higher natural gas prices compared with coal prices, and cooler […]
At first glance, a new chart from the U.S. Energy Information Administration suggests that coal is not just king in the Midwest’s electricity mix, but still reigns with an iron grip. Look […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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