Australian energy chiefs have welcomed the release today of two reports setting out options for the country’s future electricity market makeup. A post-2025 market design consultation paper from the Energy Security Board […]
The One Big Problem With Green Hydrogen
From a rarely mentioned, modest member of the renewable energy family to a headline-hogging clickbait, hydrogen has quickly turned from a prop to a star. There is a good reason for it: […]
Brown coal generators must now dance to the tune of rooftop solar
Victoria’s ageing brown coal generators are being forced to learn new tricks in the latter stages of their lives – dancing around the huge changes in grid demand caused by rooftop solar. […]
Energy giant to close biggest coal generator in Germany after just five years
The coal plant Moorburg in Hamburg, with a capacity of 1.6 gigawatt, only started operations in 2015 after years of struggle with local environmental groups. Hall said that the Moorburg plant had […]
Newest coal generators rank amongst Australia’s worst for reliability
Queensland’s newest and most ‘modern’ coal-fired generators have ranked amongst some of Australia’s least reliable, in a new assessment that raises yet more questions around the judgement of the Morrison government, which […]
The Trillion-Dollar Reason Joe Biden Won’t Ban Fracking
Water tanks, sand tanks, and compressors surround a natural gas well during hydraulic fracturing … [+] operations on a Chesapeake Energy Corp. drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 2010. Photographer: Daniel […]
Are We On The Cusp Of A Global Energy Crisis?
Goehring and Rozencwajg believe that we are on the cusp of a global energy crisis because of the depletion of U.S. tight oil plays. “We are on the cusp of a global energy […]
Its Electric Grid Under Strain, California Turns to Batteries
The Fountain Valley, Plant No. 1 Reclamation Plant, located at the Orange County Sanitation District in Fountain Valley, Calif.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index When […]
Why Wholesale Markets are Important to an Advanced Energy Future
Friction between organized wholesale electricity markets operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) and the trend – driven by policy, technology, and market forces – toward cleaner energy options […]
U.S, Shale Recovery Leans On Huge Inventory Of DUCs
The recovery of fracking operations in the US is happening largely thanks to an unusually high inventory of drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs), which is strong enough to sustain the current level […]
