EPRI, formerly the Electric Power Research Institute, has published a new report entitled, Total Cost of Ownership Model for Current Plug-in Electric Vehicles that examines the finanical implications of owning electric-drive vehicles; […]
Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries have had nearly four years to start building policies to meet the […]
EPA issues proposed rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard
On November 15, 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the 2014 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The RFS program, established by the Energy Policy Act of […]
Developed Countries Spent $35 Billion On International Coal Plants From 2007 to 2012
The three biggest financiers were Japan, the U.S., and Germany — though the U.S. has announced plans to end most of the investment. The post Developed Countries Spent $35 Billion On International […]
Shell Oil Self-Imposes Carbon Pollution Tax High Enough To Crash Coal, Erase Natural Gas’s Value-Added
Royal Dutch Shell includes a high carbon price when evaluating new projects. The $40 a metric ton price that Shell uses — if widely adopted — would reshape domestic and international energy […]
Solar Fee Defeated in Georgia Power Rate Case
Georgia’s solar energy businesses and consumers won an important victory yesterday with the state’s largest utility, Georgia Power, dropping a proposed solar customer charge after experiencing overwhelming Commission and staff disapproval. via […]
Invest, Divest: Renewable Investment To Hit $630 Billion A Year In 2030, Fossil Fuel Stocks At Risk Today
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has a must-read piece for investors on how the smart money is beginning to notice the quicksand on which fossil fuel stock prices are built. We reported back […]
Oil’s Future Draws Blood and Gore in Investment Portfolios
Al Gore has come a long way from the Inconvenient Truth raconteur who in 2006 extolled the “leaves rustling with the wind” and talked about boiling frogs as a metaphor for humanity […]
King Coal’s Climate Challenge
The latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclude that we are quickly using up our carbon “budget” – the amount of carbon that we can afford to emit and […]
Feedback on Desalination
Last week, after posting the newest blog here on CCF, I immediately received a response from Peter Gleick, one of the authors of the report about water desalination that I had discussed. […]
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