Panasonic is laying the groundwork for a massive networked deployment of lithium-ion batteries in solar-equipped homes and businesses to solve Japan’s post-Fukushima energy crisis — and it’s looking to California and other […]
PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest power transmission grid organization, announced recently that wind and solar power could generate about 30 percent of PJM’s total electricity for its territory covering the Mid-Atlantic region […]
The simple answer to that question is that there is no simple answer. Historically, LNG prices were linked to oil because LNG was displacing oil and that practice continued until US LNG […]
How much faith can we put in our ability to decipher all the numbers out there telling us the US is closing in on its cornering of the global oil market? There’s […]
Steve Kopits recently gave a presentation explaining our current predicament: the cost of oil extraction has been rising rapidly (10.9% per year) but oil prices have been flat. Major oil companies are finding their […]
On Wednesday, Minnesota became the first state to allow utilities a new method of contracting with distributed solar producers, called the market-based “value of solar.” If adopted by utilities, it will fundamentally […]
Last month the European Commission proposed that the EU should cut its domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, and aim for “at least” 27 per cent of its […]
Fresh on the heels of its $10 billion Ecomagination investment into large-scale natural gas energy technologies, General Electric has announced a $1.4 billion, four-year plan to push into a new natural gas frontier: distributed power. That’s […]
Across the United States, but most pronounced in New England, the ratio of annual peak-hour electric demand to average hourly demand has risen over the past 20 years. In New England, the […]
Gas-to-liquids (GTL) is a process that converts natural gas to liquid fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. GTL can also make waxes. The most common technique used at GTL facilities […]
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