One way to get people to cut their energy consumption by 25%: raise utility bills by 28%. That’s what’s happened in England and Wales, where average energy use fell by a quarter […]

An integrated network of communal, driverless vehicles is needed to transform today’s unsustainable, dangerous, and inconvenient road-transportation system. The task now is to establish prototype networks to test what is possible, find […]

The idea that falling prices for renewable energy will begin to create a shake-up in the energy market, may have merit as RWE has just announced that it will close 3.1GW of […]

Academic study finds public transportation offers ‘hidden’ economic value to a community ranging from from $1.5 million to $1.8 billion a year, depending on the size of the city. via EVWorldwire http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?rssid=31023

Businesses rarely gain from political instability so trying to predict unrest is a critical activity for any entity investing in a volatile corner of the world. One of the factors most often […]

Ten years after the 2003 meltdown, weather-related outages are on the rise. via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-blackouts-are-more-common-than-ever-in-two-charts/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

You won’t hear the utilities say it, but with just a bit of attention to detail, TOU can save households money on electricity. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/how-time-of-use-pricing-works-to-cut-my-power-bills-99636?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-time-of-use-pricing-works-to-cut-my-power-bills-99636

A major new study in Geophysical Research Letters by 19 researchers — primarily from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) — shows that the natural gas fields […]

For the past decade, commercial production of jet biofuel has become of major interest to international airlines.Renewable Jet A-1 biofuel has two alluring aspects.First, it is a “drop in” fuel – blended […]

The development of the shale gas deposits in the United States, led by the drilling and fracking of horizontal wells into the Barnett Shale of Texas at the turn of the century, […]