Prometheus Institute

Back in 1917, the inventor of the telephone foresaw a future where coal and oil were replaced by renewable fuels. Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from New […]

The Southwest Power Pool said last week that it met 52.1 percent of the electricity demand in the sprawling transmission organization’s service territory with windpower during a portion of the overnight period […]

The story sounds familiar. For decades, oil and natural gas drilling have been proceeding and creating prosperity for those involved. At some point, significant earthquakes occur in areas where they were […]

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Argus Media Group China is the global leader in methanol use and has recently expanded methanol production capacity. Since the early 2000s, China’s methanol consumption […]

Electricity sales in 2016 fell, the sixth year in the past ten in which America’s electricity users managed to do with less. Industrial firms made the sharpest cuts in their electricity […]

We’ve long been following the shift away from residential solar leases, which peaked in 2014 at 72 percent of the market. In recent months, the market has been increasingly leaning toward customer […]

In case you missed it, a recent investigative piece in the LA Times unearthed the shocking fact that California retail electricity prices are high,  about 50% higher than the national average. The article’s main […]

When the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 was first enacted, it was a bit of an abstraction. A response to the energy crisis of the early 1970s, and championed by […]

In 2010, the U.S. installed 852 megawatts-DC of solar photovoltaics from just over 53,000 individual projects. The non-residential (aka commercial) segment took the largest share (40 percent) of that capacity, and the […]

The U.S. oil rig count has surged for the better part of three quarters, rising by 281 rigs since bottoming out in May 2016, an increase of nearly 90 percent. The […]