Utility-scale solar installations will surge for a fifth consecutive record year in 2014, according to provisional figures released today by Wiki-Solar.org. New capacity for the year already exceeds 10GW, and is expected […]

A Saudi company is to build the world’s biggest solar powered water desalination plant. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1yPjMCH

Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time.  Exporting gas is dumb. Exporting oil is dumber. The U.S. imports almost half […]

Put this in the category of things that can’t be true, but that are nevertheless affirmed with a straight face: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the statistical arm of the U.S. […]

The North Dakota Industrial Commission is out with the Bakken November Production Data and the North Dakota Production Data.Bakken production was up 5,293 BP/D while total North Dakota was up 3,691 BP/D. […]

The shale boom has seen gas prices fall by nearly 90% in the US, but electricity rises have risen all the same. Hence the interest in solar. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/14xRLBc

Over the last several months there has been much discussion about the impact of falling crude oil prices on the liquefied natural gas market. The conventional argument goes something like this: lower […]

The search for a means to halt the continuous fall in crude oil prices is not going to be easy. One reason for that is the very short lag between shutting a […]

A year end report from the United Nations says that using corn to make ethanol does more harm than good. Is ethanol officially over The post Are Biofuels Finally Over? appeared first […]

A study released Monday afternoon by the Seismological Society of America confirms — again — that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activity associated with natural gas drilling in the Ohio portion of the Marcellus Shale […]