Energy utilities say Australia’s 20% renewables target is expensive and impossible to meet. Other analysts say Australia can reach 46% renewables because cheap wind and solar will replace ageing and expensive coal […]

Energy storage has emerged as the next big opportunity for the solar industry. With significant improvements in PV technology and new balance-of-system innovations, the solar industry has dramatically reduced both commercial and […]

For the last couple of months I’ve been digging into the hydrocarbon space and studies from LNG exports to NGVs to gasoline, so it seemed a prudent time to go off on […]

North American utilities have installed nearly 50 million smart meters across their service territories, ranging from massive investor-owned utility deployments that count into the millions, to rural co-op and municipal systems that […]

Business-as-usual scenarios for global energy consumption and carbon emissions are always extremely depressing. So it’s no surprise that the International Energy Agency’s latest assessment of our current transportation policies paints a pretty […]

Average on-peak, day-ahead wholesale electricity prices rose in every region of the Lower 48 states in first-half 2013 compared to first-half 2012. The most important factor was the rise in the price […]

New work on the Genuine Progress Indicator shows that global GDP is increasing, but global economic welfare no longer is. Can our species stop expanding before it hits limits? via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/is-humanity-smarter-than-a-protozoan/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

As the economics of distributed energy, storage and demand-side management continue to improve, the warnings about coming radical changes to traditional electric utility business models grow louder. One of the most recent ominous […]

New tax incentives are combining with lower retail prices to make the cost of choosing an EV as your next new car almost zero. That claim comes courtesy of the Wall Street […]

Although climate change catches the headlines, it is not the only doomsday scenario out there. A smaller but no less fervent band of worriers think that peak phosphate—a catastrophic decline in output […]