Very cold weather increased the demand for natural gas used for home heating and for gas-fired electric generators in the Northeast, causing a spike in prices earlier this month. Prices spiked because […]
California, a state facing an unprecedented challenge in balancing its growing share of intermittent solar and wind power supply on the grid, is turning to wholesale and retail electricity customers for help. […]
Another traditional power company has joined the growing list of utilities and electricity providers moving into residential solar. Integrys Energy Services (IES), subsidiary of Fortune 1000 utility holding company Integrys Energy Group […]
Founded in 2008, California-based storage startup EnerVault has remained relatively quiet on its progress. The flow battery market is, after all, defined more by grandiose claims from companies than by commercial projects […]
The EPA has primary responsibility for administrating the Federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2). Administrative responsibilities include setting annual targets for blending renewable fuels into petroleum motor fuels and monitoring U.S. Refiners’ and […]
Solar and wind advocates often point to the falling electricity prices in Germany as a sign that the Energiewende is working and intermittent renewables are not as expensive and impractical as critics […]
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” And, there are many, many things that […]
Major energy companies have focused on new projects during the shale boom, buying up large swaths of acreage. But that spending spree won’t continue in 2014, according to an analysis from Deloitte. […]
The largest U.S. and European oil companies will pay more for Abu Dhabi crude when the end of a 75-year partnership reduces their direct stakes in the emirate’s output, according to two people with […]
Overcoming the challenge posed by the intermittent nature of renewable energy continues to be a major roadblock to high levels of renewable penetration and a stick with which doubters of clean energy […]
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