Thirteen cities helped the California residential solar market grow 80% so far this year, according to a new report from SunRun. According to the report, the top cities reflect solar adoption in […]
Forget peak oil, we may have reached ‘peak GDP’
Economic growth and population growth, these are undoubtedly the questions of our time. These questions are highlighted by most of today’s major news events: climate disruption, economic meltdown, hunger, poverty, species extinction […]
Gearing Up: Proposed Auto Efficiency Standards Will Create 570,000 Jobs By 2030
New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the […]
Torrefaction Cracks the Biomass Challenge
Arnhem, Netherlands — Utilities are facing major challenges in the coming decades. Current policy envisions a transition to a sustainable energy supply, while ensuring security of supply. Therefore, current energy policy is […]
AEO2012 has energy projections and analyses of legislation, regulations, and side cases
The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (only available in .PDF file format until later this week) includes many cases that provide alternate projections of energy markets under a variety of different assumptions. Detailed […]
A Fresh Look at Oil’s Long Goodbye
My bedtime reading tonight is “Oil: The Next Revolution – The unprecedented upsurge of oil production capacity and what it means for the world.” This mind-bending report points to a prolonged period […]
Photovoltaic Systems Share Characteristics of “Real Property”
Photovoltaic (PV) systems may meet many of the important criteria to be considered real property — a status that could make them eligible for easier financing — a new report by the […]
The Arithmetic Of Shale Gas
There are a few societal costs to the development of shale gas. Potential contamination of groundwater, complications in treating and recycling water used in fracking. Then there’s air pollution from leaking methane […]
North American spot crude oil benchmarks likely diverging due to bottlenecks – Today in Energy – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
West Texas Intermediate at Cushing, Oklahoma (WTI Cushing), a light, sweet crude grade, is North America’s most closely observed crude oil price benchmark and the underlying commodity of the NYMEX crude futures […]
Can Solar Fuels Avert an Imminent Petroleum Fuels Crisis?
In 2004, humanity used 471 EJ of energy2, and while the relative proportion of each contributing energy source has remained modestly constant, it is clear that at a rise to 504 EJ […]
Prometheus Institute 