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Latin America is making its mark on the global solar map. In 2010, the region barely had a solar market to speak of. In 2021, the region is expected to have more […]

The proposed refinery, to be located in the Sainshand soum (district) in the province of Dornogovi, is forecast to cost around $700m, with a further $264m to be spent on pipelines […]

Elon Musk bets his company, Tesla, can bring over 100 megawatts of energy to South Australia’s grid via battery in 100 days, according to a recent Twitter exchange the Silicon Valley […]

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 […]