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 […]
New EPRI Study Examines Total Cost of Electric Vehicle Ownership
EPRI, formerly the Electric Power Research Institute, has published a new report entitled, Total Cost of Ownership Model for Current Plug-in Electric Vehicles that examines the finanical implications of owning electric-drive vehicles; […]
Invest, Divest: Renewable Investment To Hit $630 Billion A Year In 2030, Fossil Fuel Stocks At Risk Today
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has a must-read piece for investors on how the smart money is beginning to notice the quicksand on which fossil fuel stock prices are built. We reported back […]
Oil’s Future Draws Blood and Gore in Investment Portfolios
Al Gore has come a long way from the Inconvenient Truth raconteur who in 2006 extolled the “leaves rustling with the wind” and talked about boiling frogs as a metaphor for humanity […]
What’s Ahead? Lower Oil Prices, Despite Higher Extraction Costs
Nearly everyone believes that oil prices will trend higher and higher, allowing increasing amounts of oil to be extracted. This belief is based on the observation that the cost of extraction is […]
Utilities at the crossroads of the grid edge
Smart grid IT consulting powerhouse Accenture just released a series of reports that have been making some news. Most of the reports have been focused on the positive findings, including expectations of […]
Wind Energy Renewable and Future Tech
Renewable electricity records are falling every day. In early October, Germany recently hit a 59 percent renewable peak, Colorado utility Xcel Energy peaked at 60 percent wind at the beginning of the year, and Spain got its top […]
Are Solar Panels Facing the Wrong Direction?
West-facing rooftop solar panels produced 49 percent more electricity during peak demand compared to south-facing panels, according to a new study from Pecan Street Research Institute. The research is the first of […]
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