To combat urban air pollution and traffic problems, some propose congestion pricing as a cost-effective policy to reduce pollution and improve productivity through improved travel speeds. Cities in China could implement this […]

With food prices doubling in the past decade, food security is back on the international agenda. But, given that we already produce more than twice the number of calories required by the […]

Assembly Bill (AB) 327, which California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law, sets an important precedent for the rest of the country. Surprisingly, that precedent does not have anything to do […]

The talk in Texas is about using its newly discovered shale gas abundance and its growing renewables capacity synergistically. But is natural gas a bridge to renewables or an environmental sin?   […]

Prices for crude and oil-based fuels, which have been declining in recent weeks, will continue to fall through the end of the year and will average lower in 2014, according to a […]

The oil industry has a long history of getting ahead of itself. If you believe some of the early prognostications about hydraulic fracturing, we now have as much as 100 years worth […]

New forecasts estimate solar PV will be cost-competitive with retail power prices in nearly every market by 2017; annual installations will double by 2020. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/graph-of-the-day-global-solar-pv-installs-to-double-hit-parity-by-2020-2020?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=graph-of-the-day-global-solar-pv-installs-to-double-hit-parity-by-2020-2020

We should think about a day when most of our energy sources for electricity and transportation are renewable sources rather than fossil fuels. Why? Because this is an achievable goal as R&D […]

Few executives are more outspoken about the threat that distributed energy poses to utilities than NRG Energy CEO David Crane, so it’s not surprising that NRG Energy plans to sell a product […]

Claims that the shale boom in the US will eventually see the country become energy self-sufficient seems to have received its biggest blow yet after the International Energy Agency, in its latest […]