SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Severe pollution in Beijing has made the Chinese capital "barely suitable" for living, according to an official Chinese report, as the world’s second-largest economy tries to reduce often hazardous […]
NREL Says Rival CSP Technologies Offer Comparable Promise
Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, despite different solar profiles, a new report by the Department of […] via SolarIndustryMag.com http://ift.tt/1kC9mxL
New Report Navigates Solar Securitization
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Big Oil Sheds Assets to Fix Balance Sheets
The oil industry may be in the midst of entering a new phase of high costs and slower growth. New oil discoveries are harder to come by, and the scramble to replace […]
US Should Heed Renewable Integration Lessons from Europe or Face Consequences, Says NARUC Panelist
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NRDC and U.S. Utilities Urge Grid Payments for Rooftop Solar
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. utility industry’s trade group are jointly calling for a new rate structure to account for customers that generate their own power with rooftop solar […]
New Study Finds Oil Sands Pollutants Underestimated by Official Estimates
The emission levels of some pollutants from the Athabasca oil sands may be higher than previous official estimates, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. The focus of the study, polycyclic […]
Coal Industry in Structural Decline
Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) reported a big loss for the fourth quarter of 2013, its eighth straight. The numbers came in lower than many analysts expected and the company continues to struggle […]
Fuel-switching from natural gas to oil helps accommodate Northeast winter natural gas demand and price spikes (2/5/2014)
Recent extreme cold weather in the Northeast boosted natural gas demand beyond the capacity of the natural gas delivery system that supplies New York and New England. As a result, the spot […]
Japan Looks at Dozens of New Geothermal Power Plants
In the aftermath of the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, the then ruling Democratic Party of Japan took all of the country’s 54 nuclear reactors offline before subsequently restarting two […]