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. […]
Energy Innovation: 6 Radical Solar Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal of reaching less than $1 a watt for complete installed solar systems by 2020. Reaching $1/watt would bring the cost of solar power […]
Will the real International Energy Agency please stand up?
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a third contradictory forecast in the […]
What Happens after the U.S. Oil Boom Goes Bust?
The Bakken crude oil formation spread out over North Dakota and Montana should give up more than 1 million barrels of oil per day next month. North Dakota is already the second-largest […]
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