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NRDC and U.S. Utilities Urge Grid Payments for Rooftop Solar
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. utility industry’s trade group are jointly calling for a new rate structure to account for customers that generate their own power with rooftop solar […]
One of the world’s great investment thinkers is convinced fracking is causing earthquakes
“To me at least the connection is clear and statistically certain… far more certain than anything I ever see in the stock market or the economy.” That’s Jeremy Grantham, the highly-regarded co-founder […]
Commercial Energy Storage Market to Surpass 720MW by 2020
The next six years will mark the beginning of a long-term, viable growth opportunity for commercial energy storage, according to GTM Research’s newest report, Distributed Energy Storage 2014: Applications and Opportunities for […]
2013 wind energy installations stall in US, surge in China
Policy uncertainty buffeted the world’s wind energy industry in 2013, somewhat slowing overall capacity additions, but strong headwinds appear ready to lift the industry to new heights in 2014. This look back, […]
Frackers are guzzling water in drought-plagued areas
Fracking is a thirsty technique — and most of the fracking underway in the U.S. is occurring in regions suffering from drought. That’s according to a new analysis by Ceres, which reveals […]
New Study Finds Oil Sands Pollutants Underestimated by Official Estimates
The emission levels of some pollutants from the Athabasca oil sands may be higher than previous official estimates, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. The focus of the study, polycyclic […]
Coal Industry in Structural Decline
Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) reported a big loss for the fourth quarter of 2013, its eighth straight. The numbers came in lower than many analysts expected and the company continues to struggle […]
Fuel-switching from natural gas to oil helps accommodate Northeast winter natural gas demand and price spikes (2/5/2014)
Recent extreme cold weather in the Northeast boosted natural gas demand beyond the capacity of the natural gas delivery system that supplies New York and New England. As a result, the spot […]
Japan Looks at Dozens of New Geothermal Power Plants
In the aftermath of the 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, the then ruling Democratic Party of Japan took all of the country’s 54 nuclear reactors offline before subsequently restarting two […]
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