Prometheus Institute

Just weeks ago, the most pressing question about the Inflation Reduction Act was about its fate: would a Republican takeover of the White House and Congress be a death knell for the […]

Rooftop solar has achieved a record share of generation in Queensland, the country’s most coal dependent grid despite being known as the “sunshine state”, and at the same time sent operational demand […]

The past and the future of electricity in America are perhaps most visible in a Minnesota town surrounded by potato farms and cornfields. Towering over Becker, a community of a little more […]

  Ultra-high density hydrogen storage   A nanoporous material that holds hydrogen at twice the density of cryogenic liquid H2 could address the challenges of large-scale liquid and gas storage that have […]

In June, the Energy Institute released the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Each year, I write […]

The Energy Information Administration expects power plant developers and owners will add 62.8 GW this year in the United States, up 55% from 2023 when 40.4 GW came online, the agency said […]

One hundred and fifty years of oil and gas production in the United States has left millions of decommissioned wells scattered around the country. While they no longer have much, if any, […]

U.S. consumers are set to pay higher electricity bills as power providers raise investments in much-needed grid improvements amid an old power system that is not designed to cope with soaring demand […]

Crude oil producer and exporter Mexico could see itself in need of crude imports in 2030 as its field production is set to rapidly decline at the end of this decade while […]

Rystad Energy’s latest research shows global recoverable oil reserves held largely steady at around 1,500 billion barrels, down some 52 billion barrels from our 2023 analysis. Of this year-over-year decrease, 30 billion […]