As the country’s generation mix moves away from the most water-intensive sources of generation, U.S. electric power sector water withdrawals for power plant cooling remained relatively constant in 2021, increasing by just […]
Polysilicon Price Surge: A Challenge For Emerging Solar Markets
With high energy prices and supply chain disruptions creating shortages of key renewable energy components and materials, emerging markets are reassessing how to build out utility-scale solar power to accelerate their energy […]
Ready To Buy An Induction Stove? Heres What You Need To Know
There are lots of reasons why induction cooking is better than gas: control, speed, safety, health, and the environment. In our last post, we sang the praises of induction and dug into […]
The investment test for electricity transmission has become a sham
AEMO Victoria Planning (AVP) and TransGrid recently completed the Project Assessment Conclusions Report, the last step in the (economic) regulatory assessment, for the Western Renewables Link – VNI West (WRL-VNI). WRL-VNI will […]
Global steel industry can quit coal reach net-zero by early 2040s study finds
The global steel industry could achieve net zero emissions by the early 2040s, according to a new German study, provided the sector invests in key technologies, phases out coal-based steel production rapidly, […]
Solar cells can finally stand the heat
Sde Boker Israel (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Photovoltaic technology is indispensable for our ability to mitigate climate change. Nonetheless, more than 70% of the energy made available to us by the sun […]
US Coal Electricity Declining from Growth of Renewables
We forecast that the largest increases in U.S. electricity generation this summer (June, July, and August) will come from solar, wind, and natural gas-fired power plants because of new generating capacity coming […]
US residential heat pump sales pass gas furnaces for first time as interest in efficiency tech surges: IEA
Dive Brief: Global energy demand rose 1% in 2022 but the rate of energy efficiency improvements was double the average of the past five years boosted by “surging” sales in more efficient […]
The Inflation Reduction Act Is Making America Great Again!
For decades, people have been wringing their hands and bemoaning the fate of America’s once great industrial empire. They are used to seeing the smokestacks in Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and other industrial cities […]
On the emerging copper shortfall, mainstream media notices
I’m certainly not the only person who noticed before now that sustaining our increasing consumption of copper would be difficult as I suggested in my July 2022 piece entitled "Acceleration forever? The […]
