The basic business approach used by much of America’s electric power sector has changed little over the past 100 years.  Electric utilities operated state granted monopolies on electric sales, but were regulated […]

The news on the green technology front has not been good of late. As we wrote yesterday, funding for new technologies has been declining sharply. But there’s one bright spot for clean energy startups: […]

Report says fall in value of Europe’s 20 biggest power companies – from a collective $1trn in 2008 to $500bn now – is largely driven by renewables rollout. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/european-utility-shareholders-lost-half-trillion-euros-five-years-37359?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=european-utility-shareholders-lost-half-trillion-euros-five-years-37359

Clean-energy investment fell 14 percent in the third quarter from the prior three months as Europe curbed subsidies and cheaper U.S. natural gas lured investment. via Solar Energy News – RenewableEnergyWorld.com http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/10/clean-energy-investment-continues-drop-in-3q?cmpid=rss

Across the country, Americans are paying more for water than they did a decade ago, even as water utilities fall into debt and water infrastructure deteriorates, according to a recently released Columbia […]

As the US heads toward debt default and continues with government shutdown, the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear to the American people or the world. The story that […]

Chinese coal is one of the world’s largest contributors to carbon emissions, so when two reports project a peak in Chinese coal consumption, many energy commentators concluded that the problem has been […]

Talk about “the future of the electric grid” has been focused on developed nations, where discussion of “smart grids” and advanced power systems are commonplace. That focus may be misplaced; the big […]

Perhaps the most important energy story on the planet right now is the precarious situation for fuel rods stored in a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan, site […]

At a Council on Foreign Relations shindig in New York on Monday the hot topic was the European Union and its lesser-of-two evils energy choice: Russia or fracking; but this paints a […]