The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission recently passed a mandate to support energy storage technologies that can provide quick bursts of power to the grid to help it run more smoothly. This new rule could […]
A very interesting report out of Holland which has in it a little point which shows why wind power simply doesn’t work in any attempt to deal with climate change. My apologies, […]
There was a brief, heady time in the late ’00s when it seemed like energy efficiency was finally going to get the spotlight. For years — decades, really — efficiency geeks lamented […]
The World Energy Council’s (WEC’s) ‘Global Transport Scenarios 2050’ report highlights the role of governments in providing a sustainable future for the global transport sector. The WEC expects transport fuel demand in […]
Gartner, the largest technology market research firm, is forecasting 100,000 electric car sales in 2012 in the United States. Yesterday, I took in the presentation at the SV Forum and then talked […]
Imagine the internet, only for energy. Imagine that, as well as tens of millions of personal computers all linked together, exchanging information this way and that, you had tens of millions of personal […]
Up to 1 billion people in the world still lack or have unsteady access to electricity. For these people, kerosene, a dirty petroleum product, is usually the fuel of choice–or more accurately, […]
[Its a god-damned Revolution…. TB] In 2011, the solar industry saw global oversupply drive PV prices to record lows, with crystalline silicon (c-Si) module prices falling from $1.80 per watt at the […]
Last week, the Obama administration gave what may be its first formal statement favoring hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of natural gas in a report, Investing in America (pdf). Until now, the Environmental […]
A shale-driven glut of natural gas has cut electricity prices for the U.S. power industry by 50 percent and reduced investment in costlier sources of energy. With abundant new supplies of gas […]
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