A candidate for president emphasizes the environment on the campaign trail. He promises to update the Clean Air Act to address a grave and growing pollution threat. He wins. Three weeks after […]
Lights Out for Some Coal Plants
First there were six. Now there’s three more. What’s going on in the coal-fired utility business? FirstEnergy of Ohio plans to close by September those 9 units, which supply as much as […]
Advice To President Obama: Yes We Can, But Will We?
The post below shares Nate Hagen’s timeless address to President Obama about the importance of energy in our society, written in January 2009. It goes into how energy ties into our economic […]
PACE Financing on the Rebound
Property-assessed clean energy, or PACE, financing has had a rough ride over the past few years, but it’s poised for a comeback. On the home front, we’ve got federal regulators considering ways […]
After The Gold Rush: A Perspective on Future U.S. Natural Gas Supply and Price
On January 23, 2012, Chesapeake Energy announced that it would curtail drilling in shale gas plays in the United States. Subsequently, other operators have followed suit. While the outcome of this announcement […]
Federal Research Lab Concludes China’s Costs to Produce and Deliver Solar to U.S. Market Exceed Those of U.S. Producers
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM), a group of seven U.S. solar manufacturers representing more than 150 employers of more than 14,650 workers, is heralding a revised research presentation from […]
Assessing the Risks in Solar Project Development
Over the next four years, 5.7 GW of utility-scale solar PV projects is expected to be built in the U.S. and another 1.3 GW in Canada for a total of 7 GW. […]
Bombshell Study: High Methane Emissions Measured Over Gas Field “May Offset Climate Benefits of Natural Gas”
How much methane leaks during the entire lifecycle of unconventional gas has emerged as a key question in the fracking debate. Natural gas is mostly methane (CH4). And methane is a far […]
The Next Wave In Renewable Energy From the Ocean
MOTORING ACROSS THE PUGET Sound, Reenst Lesemann spots a yellow, barnacle-encrusted contraption bobbing on the wind-whipped waters off Seattle. Called the SeaRay, it’s the prototype of a device that Lesemann’s startup, Columbia […]
Passive Loss Rules and You
As my colleague Mike Mendelsohn has noted in several analyses, the relatively constrained tax equity market may limit the amount of investment flowing to renewable energy projects. [1] [2] To help bolster […]
