China’s insatiable demand for energy has triggered a coal-mine building boom in Australia, which now supplies China with a third of its coal. With plans for 10 massive Australian coal mines worth […]
I spent the first week of November in the heart of the Athabasca oil sands around Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was there as a guest of the Canadian government, which hosts annual tours […]
Lately, it has been fashionable to talk of “stranded carbon assets” that will emerge as a risk to investors as pressure to mount a serious global climate policy increases. The thinking behind […]
The widely predicted explosion in New England’s energy prices has started sooner than most people expected. The price of natural gas at Boston’s Algonquin Citygate climbed from $4.13 per MMBtu last Wednesday […]
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 […]
