China’s coal consumption may have peaked in 2013, and with it, so have the coal industry’s fortunes. A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that preliminary data suggests that […]
2016 Look Ahead for Nuclear Energy
This is the annual look ahead for the global nuclear energy industry. While it is too early to predict whether the high concept promises of the COP 21 climate change conference will […]
Iran Delusional About Oil Potential
After 37 miserable years of the so-called Islamic Republic (IR) and more than $1.6 trillion of oil income, Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure has become ineffective and is suffering from poor management […]
Utility Regulators Were Busy in 2015. Here Are the Top 10 Issues They Dealt With
State public utility commissions grappled with a wide range of issues in 2015, ranging from rate design to comprehensive utility business model reform. In this retrospective, Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) looks back […]
Commercial PACE Booms Beyond California
After being eclipsed by residential property-assessed clean energy financing in 2014, commercial PACE projects lined up considerable funding in 2015, and not just in California. The Connecticut Green Bank just announced that […]
Are Oil Companies Cooking Their Books?
Substantial impairment charges may change an investor’s appetite for an oil company given the potential impact on future cash flows. via Forbes – Energy http://ift.tt/1IYs5RM
EIA’s newly designed coal web pages provides easier access to coal data
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) redesigned the weekly Coal Production report and combined two price reports into a single Coal Markets product to improve access to EIA’s coal data. Users can […]
Will the U.S. Finally Get a Unified Power Grid?
The long-delayed Tres Amigas superstation would help move up to 20 gigawatts of electricity around the continent via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1Qvlu4n
The World’s First Securitization of Off-Grid Solar Assets
This week, pay-as-you-go solar firm BBOXX said it plans to lead the first-ever securitization of off-grid assets. The plan is to lower its cost of capital as it scales in developing countries. Despite improvements […]
Metal Powder: the New Zero-Carbon Fuel?
In the iron economy, you’d retrofit coal plants to burn iron powder, then recycle it using renewable energy via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1MhwoCI