The U.S. government welcomed Mexico’s recent energy reform and said that the types of new contracts, which will allow booking reserves, may increase foreign investment and result in a long-term 75% expansion […]

On September 3, a joint venture company called POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels held the grand opening of its Project Liberty cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The plant is the first of three […]

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Major oil and gas companies’ recent record of bringing large projects on stream within projected timeframes and budgets leaves much to be desired. Ernst & Young analyzed the performance of 365 megaprojects […]

Demand Response is a mechanism that allows utilities to provide customers with information and incentives that encourage customers to reduce energy usage at specific times of the day or year. This gives […]

Austin Energy’s recent 5-cent solar contract was a big deal. Now it makes solar "default" generation to hedge against rising fossil fuel costs. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1sTNXkt

U.S. retail residential electricity prices for the first half of 2014 averaged 12.3 cents per kilowatthour, an increase of 3.2% from the same period last year. This is the highest year-over-year growth […]

For U.S. wind power, last year was both the best of times and the worst of times. That’s the conclusion from the new Wind Technologies Market Report released last week by the […]

Introduction to the GSRToday I want to take a deep look at the global biofuels picture, drawing mainly from the Renewables 2014 Global Status Report (GSR) that was released in June by […]