Jerry Brown didn’t show up to last week at the ceremony where he was to receive the Blue-Green Alliance’s “Right Stuff” award. But who did? A crowd of protestors condemning the Governor […]
Energy Storage and Renewable Grid Assistance
Clean Energy Group\’s new Resilient Power Project is helping states figure out how to provide resilient power to critical infrastructure, so that needed services can be provided during a natural disaster that […]
US utility trade body told to confess or condemn in ‘dark money’ row
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents all investor owned utilities in the US, has been urged to confess or condemn the use of so-called “dark money” to pay for campaigns against […]
Electric Vehicle Myths 4: Chemistry Is Not Electronics
“ The potential for electric vehicles has stimulated hundreds of companies to jump at the challenge of improving battery technology. Like the bulky original cellphones and tissue-box-sized calculators, batteries will shrink in size, […]
Is There a Fatal Flaw in Proprietary Electric-Vehicle Charging Networks?
For stakeholders in the electric vehicle industry, the back-to-back bankruptcies of Better Place and ECOtality have been sobering, but not surprising. Though both were early pioneers in the EV charging space, many […]
Grid Edge Pulse: Microgrids
We recently highlighted energy decentralization as one of the key drivers for the grid edge market. In addition to the growth of PV, electric vehicles, and storage, we see microgrids as a […]
Panelist: Excess LNG capacity means not all projects will be built
The LNG export projects that federal regulators are considering far exceed the capacity that North America is expected to export, said Robert Stibolt, a senior managing director at broker dealer Galway Group, […]
Hitting EU green energy goals ‘would save billions, boost GDP’
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hitting energy and environment targets for 2030 under discussion in the European Commission would save up to 35 billion euros ($47 billion) per year in health costs as air […]
Germany finances major push into home battery storage for solar
Germany’s push into battery storage has already unlocked some $70m in investment in rooftop solar with storage in homes and businesses in its first six months. Storage is seen as critical to […]
For Libyan Oil And Gas, It’s Not Getting Better
When Libya’s energy sector began to falter just days into 2013, Tripoli’s new government pledged swift action against anyone who threatened the country’s life blood. However, ten months on the situation appears […]
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