Recent rapid growth in U.S. production of light tight oil has raised interest in understanding how U.S. refineries, many of which are configured to process heavier crude oil, might accommodate increased volumes […]
Investment bank Deutsche Bank is predicting that solar systems will be at grid parity in up to 80 per cent of the global market within 2 years, and says the collapse in […]
More than 120 suppliers have collapsed or stayed out of the wind business in the past two years, including 88 from Asia, 23 from Europe and 18 from North America, as the […]
Over the last several months there has been much discussion about the impact of falling crude oil prices on the liquefied natural gas market. The conventional argument goes something like this: lower […]
The search for a means to halt the continuous fall in crude oil prices is not going to be easy. One reason for that is the very short lag between shutting a […]
A year end report from the United Nations says that using corn to make ethanol does more harm than good. Is ethanol officially over The post Are Biofuels Finally Over? appeared first […]
A study released Monday afternoon by the Seismological Society of America confirms — again — that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activity associated with natural gas drilling in the Ohio portion of the Marcellus Shale […]
More than a few utility customers have considered defecting from the electric power grid. The technology exists for going off the grid. The price tag is the problem. It is too steep […]
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Wholesale on-peak electricity prices were up at trading hubs across the nation between 2013 and 2014, driven largely by increases in spot natural gas prices and high energy demand caused by cold […]
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