Although they’re starting to creep back up, Americans continue to enjoy relatively low gasoline prices, with the current national average of $2.50 per gallon down by about $1 over the same time […]
Utility Shift: Examining New York’s Vision for Distributed Service Platform Providers
New York has been lauded for its Reforming the Energy Vision proposal, arguably the most forward-looking vision of any state for pushing its power system into the 21st century. Central to the […]
Oil at $95 a Barrel Discovered in SEC Rules on Reserves: Energy
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires drillers to calculate the value of their oil reserves every year using average prices from the first trading days in each of the previous 12 […]
Global Crude Oil Production Growth Grinding To A Halt
This is the third in a monthly series of posts chronicling the action in the global oil market in 13 key charts. The February 2015 post is here. EIA oil price and […]
It’s time for America to do away with bail
When it comes to criminal justice, what was radical a half century ago is apparently still radical today. In 1961, my organization, the Vera Institute of Justice, got its start with the […]
Storage Can Capture Benefits Across the Energy Supply Chain
In hundreds of installations and over years of run-time, customer-sited energy storage technology has been proven to offer a multitude of benefits to the electricity supply chain. The challenge and opportunity are […]
The Shale Revolution Did Not Pay Investors Well
We have all heard of the “shale revolution”. It has been touted as the energy panacea of our time. Given the extreme hype, one would expect that such enthusiasm would translate into […]
A new dawn: Deutsche Bank on why solar has already won
Deutsche Bank says solar market is massive, will generate $5 trillion in revenue by 2030. It describes solar plus storage as next the killer app, and says even in India will be […]
Dutch government says sorry for gas field causing quakes
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government apologized on Monday for ignoring risks posed by earthquakes caused by production of natural gas in the northern province of Groningen. via Reuters: Environment http://ift.tt/1BzuEnU
Trends in Texas Wind Generation, Driving Habits, and Network-enabled Devices
Apparently, the Queen of England sent her first email in 1976, some 14 years before the World Wide Web was born. I learned this while reading about the growth of ‘smart’ devices, […]
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