Prometheus Institute

Most people who look into going solar know about the 30 percent federal Investment Tax Credit. But many don’t know that there are more than 100 different solar tax credits, rebates and […]

Oil production from the six largest shale plays in the U.S. will hit 5.6 million barrels per day in April, an increase of less than 300 barrels per day over March. via […]

Could France, a heavyweight in nuclear power, begin to see its position crumble? Areva, France’s iconic nuclear power builder, reported a massive financial loss for 2014. The state-owned company revealed that it […]

If an electric utility generates power from renewable resources and sells renewable energy certificates representing the renewable attributes of that energy, can it still call the underlying power "renewable"? No, according to […]

New federal statistics out this week have shed more light solar and wind energy’s emerging role in keeping the country’s lights on. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2014 saw non-hydro […]

Civil war has broken out in the fossil fuel industry as the incumbents fight over declining market share and plummeting prices. Climate concerns were never likely to shut down fossil fuel projects, […]

Although they’re starting to creep back up, Americans continue to enjoy relatively low gasoline prices, with the current national average of $2.50 per gallon down by about $1 over the same time […]

New York has been lauded for its Reforming the Energy Vision proposal, arguably the most forward-looking vision of any state for pushing its power system into the 21st century. Central to the […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires drillers to calculate the value of their oil reserves every year using average prices from the first trading days in each of the previous 12 […]

This is the third in a monthly series of posts chronicling the action in the global oil market in 13 key charts. The February 2015 post is here. EIA oil price and […]