With world energy consumption set to rise by about 40 percent by 2030, the sources and structures of transportation fuel systems will radically change, according to a new BSR report. The Sustainability […]
BSR Report: Future of Fuels is ‘Efficiency’
IRS to Rule on Status of Solar PV Owned by REITs
The biggest open question in my article Solar REITs: A Better Way to Invest in Solar was, when will we have a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)? In particular, Will solar photovoltaics […]
U.S. ethanol waiver would roil grains market: traders
The U.S. government is unlikely to bow to pressure for a waiver on quotas requiring a proportion of corn is used to make ethanol before November, at the earliest, traders said, despite […]
Projected retirements of coal-fired power plants
Current trends in the electric power market put many coal-fired generators in the United States at risk for retirement. In the Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2012) Reference case, 49 gigawatts of coal-fired […]
Can a “Value of Solar Tariff” Replace Net Energy Metering?
Ten U.S. utilities currently account for 70 percent of all net energy metering (NEM) — but most solar companies and utilities are thinking about it. Innovative financing, unprecedentedly low panel costs and […]
Trendspotting: US States Warming up to Renewable Energy Heating and Cooling
Of the fifty U.S. states, four territories and one District of Colombia, almost forty of them have some kind of renewable energy requirement on the books and of those forty, only about […]
Should Renewable Energy Be Afraid of Basel III Banking Standards?
The Basel III Accords, the latest set of international banking standards from the Basel Committee on Banking and Supervision, are set to take effect in just a few short months. This new […]
Geothermal Transmission 101: Technologies Are Not Treated Equally
Among renewable resources, one of the most valuable attributes of geothermal electricity is the baseload characteristic of the energy resource. That is, geothermal electricity generators are able to deliver a stable level […]
Biofuels markets face blending constraints and other challenges
From 2009 to the middle of 2012, the U.S. biofuels industry, encompassing all liquid fuels derived from renewable sources, ramped up output to meet mandates for increased biofuels use under the Renewable […]
Major Analysis: Federal Loans And Loan Guarantees Have A Huge Benefit But A Low And Predicatable Cost
The U.S. government is arguably the largest and most influential financial institution in the world, with about $2.7 trillion outstanding in loans and loan guarantees. Among other things, these federal credit programs […]
