The world’s coal resources are clearly huge. How could China, or the world in total, reach peak coal in a timeframe that makes a difference? If we look at China’s […]
An Icelandic Power Plant Is Turning Its Carbon Emissions Into Stone (Really)
Researchers from Columbia University have helped develop a method for safe, long-term carbon containment–one that’s been proven to work. via Forbes.com: Energy News http://ift.tt/21aBl9H
Quarterly coal production lowest since the early 1980s
June 10, 2016 Coal production […]
Torpedoing the 2030 Energy Efficiency Target
The European Commission, in preparing a new proposal on an EU energy efficiency target, has adopted somewhat more realistic assumptions than it did last time around, writes Brook Riley of Friends of […]
New IEA Report Says 1.26 Million Electric Cars Sold In 2015
A report from the IEA says 1.26 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2015. That’s a good sign, but there is a long way to go before electric cars go mainstream […]
Renewables Are Getting Cheaper. But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Eliminate Subsidies, Says IEA
Now that renewable energy has become the lowest-cost source of electricity in a growing number of energy markets, one might assume that the growth of generation technologies like wind and solar will […]
Rising wholesale markets improving economics of home battery storage
Your author recently attended the Australian Energy Storage conference and exhibition held over two days at the Australian Technology Park Sydney. Two full days on batteries (and other forms of storage) what […]
Solar Will Replace Nearly All Retiring Coal in Texas
In the next 15 years, Texas expects to add somewhere between 14 and 27 gigawatts of solar capacity, according to a new long-term system assessment from the state’s grid operator, ERCOT. ERCOT […]
Train-Pumped Energy For Grid-Scale Power Storage
New advances in batteries and storage technologies for electricity may soon solve one of the most vexing issues with wind and solar energy – dealing with their intermittency. The wind and sun […]
Thinking global: China’s coal-fired energy conundrum
In China about 150GW of new coal plants will likely be completed over the 2016- 2018 time frame. The plants are being built because lower coal prices (half what they were) and relatively fixed […]
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