Prometheus Institute

With a warming climate and a rapidly evolving energy system, energy grids are increasingly struggling to meet the demands placed on them. Many utilities have successfully implemented demand response (DR) programs to […]

The fight over “net zero” at the National Party over the weekend was all a bit of a charade. Yes, it garnered attention from mainstream media, but it was essentially meaningless. The […]

Todays’ announcement that ConocoPhillips and JERA Americas are one step closer to realising their proposed two-million-tonnes-per-annum ammonia plant on the US Gulf Coast is a significant sign of progress for the nascent […]

China is by far the world leader in nuclear reactor development at present. The country has been rapidly expanding its nuclear energy industry in line with its renewable energy development, to diversity […]

Tesla continues to be the best selling brand in Europe, but Volkswagen is recovering Some 234,000 plugin vehicles were registered in July in Europe — which is +48% year over year (YoY), […]

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over 658,000 sales last month, up 31% year over year (YoY). That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over […]

There is a U.S. movement to ban natural gas stoves for cooking to reduce CO2 emissions, but are there downsides that we should consider? What is the cost of natural gas stove […]

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on Sept. 6 issued an Energy Emergency Alert 2 (EEA 2) after grid conditions quickly deteriorated around sunset (7:30 p.m.) as demand soared […] The […]

Encouraging solar installations Two of the sectors to have grown the most in the second quarter of the year were the residential and utility-scale segments. The residential sector installed 1.8GW of new […]

Three prominent US Senators have demanded that the Treasury Department begin to collect and analyze data on the effect of the climate crisis on the insurance industry. The call comes during a […]