My favorite quote by H.L. Mencken is ‘a cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin‘. A bit morose, I know, but this appeals to the […]
Hawaii to Test Smart Water Heaters as Grid Resources
Hawaiian Electric is trying out all sorts of distributed energy assets to help it manage its solar-impacted island electricity system, including behind-the-meter batteries, and smart-meter-enabled energy disaggregation. But one of the cheaper […]
Obama’s punt on renewable fuel sets up fights in court, congress
The delay, announced Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, follows months of fighting between refiners and ethanol producers over a proposal by the agency to lower the quotas for ethanol, biodiesel […]
Five take-home messages from the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2014
IEA presented its World Energy Outlook for 2014. For the first time ever, it looked ahead as far as 2040 painting a sobering picture. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1ujKk9D
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions
Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables and other green solutions? I think that there are more pitfalls than many […]
What Does New York’s ‘Energy Vision’ Mean for Utility Jurisdiction and Regulators?
Before the New York Public Service Commission’s vision of a grid operated by Distributed System Platform Providers (DSPPs) can become a reality, there are just a few points to hammer out — […]
US Oil Dependency on Middle East has Hardly Changed Since 2007
The following graph shows US petroleum imports from OPEC countries starting in 1960. This includes both crude oil and petroleum products. Note: Indonesia left OPEC in 2008 but it is included here […]
Watching the Watchdogs: 10 Years of the IEA World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is the energy watchdog of the industrial world. The developed nations of the world were caught off guard by the oil crisis of 1973. They then realized […]
$548 Billion In Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies “Rig The Game” Against Renewables
In the same week that a new study found that G20 nations, including Australia, were providing $US88 billion ($A102 billion) a year in subsidies just for fossil fuel exploration, another report – […]
IEA Says Oil Supplies May Not Keep Up With Demand
Despite what appears to be a saturated oil market in 2014, oil producers around the world will struggle to meet rising demand over the next few decades. In its latest annual World […]
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