The state of Alaska is considering a more aggressive approach to oil and gas development in order to make up for its collapsing revenue. Alaska relies on oil and gas to fund […]
Alaska To Build a State-Owned Gas Pipeline?
Higher RIN prices support continued ethanol blending despite lower gasoline prices
With the exception of two short periods in late 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, when winter-related logistical bottlenecks drove up ethanol prices, spot ethanol prices have consistently been lower than […]
China and Changing Fuel Sources and Needs
While China’s coal consumption growth has slowed down, and fell in 2014, coal-fired power generating capacity continues to grow rapidly. This apparent contradiction has led some observers to conclude that China’s coal […]
Is The EU Finally Breaking Free Of Russia’s Energy Grip?
Gazprom’s dominance over European energy supplies may be beginning to slip. The collapse of oil prices has punished Gazprom’s revenues, but in a new development that is further damaging to the Russian […]
Despite The Risks Oil Shipments By Rail Have To Continue
By now you have probably heard that a CSX (NYSE: CSX) train carrying Bakken crude from North Dakota’s shale oil fields derailed and caught fire. The oil was bound for a coastal […]
Here Are 7 Ways the US Solar Market Will Change in 2015
From 2009 through 2014, U.S. solar PV installations grew at a compound annual growth rate of over 60 percent. This resulted in a 2014 market that was 12 times larger than it […]
We Don’t Need New Energy Storage Innovations
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about energy storage being a "holy grail" for solving the problems of deeper renewables saturation in the U.S. power grid. It seems inevitable that someone […]
Energy Quote of the Day: On ‘No Regret’ Negative Emissions Technologies
A new report from Oxford University says that the most promising “Negative Emissions Technologies” (NETs) for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the near term are also among the simplest: afforestation, […]
New York and California are building the grid of the future
New York and California are betting big in different ways on distributed energy resources, solar and storage. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1EqLW56
Energy efficiency improvements have largely offset effect of more, larger homes
The growth in residential energy use has slowed to below the rate of household growth, meaning that per-household energy consumption has decreased. Analysis of EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) conducted since […]
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