Minnesota’s largest electric utility is asking state regulators to change the way it sets electricity rates so that it isn’t penalized when customers conserve energy. As part of a rate increase request […]
Why Risk Management Plays Such a Large Role in our Energy Future
Optimistic, but unwarranted, energy supply forecasts permeate the media (courtesy of the oil and gas industry) even as the occasional dire scenario gets coverage. But, it is well to remember that none […]
Look what’s slowing down global warming
It’s us! Turns out temperatures would be higher if not for a 1987 pact to slash CFCs. via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/look-whats-slowing-down-global-warming/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed
Direct action vs carbon pricing: We can have it all
We should not be debating a choice between direct action and carbon pricing: we need both, but with credible, well-designed mechanisms. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/direct-action-vs-carbon-pricing-can-62831?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=direct-action-vs-carbon-pricing-can-62831
Vanderbilt Proposes Building Energy Storage Into Solar Cells
Imagine a photovoltaic cell or module that actually produces and stores energy, acting as a battery and producing power even after dark. New research into silicon-based supercapacitors at Vanderbilt University shows that it’s possible. […]
Andrew Bolt, damned statistics, and climate change
Climate sceptics and denialists put forward many arguments to support their views that climate change is not a big issue. A core argument has been that warming has stopped over the past […]
Brazil Grapples with Biofuel Supply Glut
Brazil is eyeing a 5% increase in biodiesel requirements in January 2014 and up to a 10% increase in biodiesel requirements for 2020 as the country deals with a supply glut. The […]
Fuel Crises and Choices
“You’re hitting your head against a stone wall,” his advisors told him. A revolution and hostage taking in Iran destabilized global oil and energy markets. An accident at Three Mile Island halted […]
Then and Now: Mapping Fuel Choice in the 21st Century
Although we face similar energy challenges, crises, and opportunities we did in the late 1970s, things like climate change, globalization and the digital era have fundamentally changed the way we actually approach […]
What Utility Planners Need to Know About Solar
The road to bringing more distributed solar into the utility resource mix runs through long-term planners. Solar complicates utility planning decisions, according to the findings presented in Treatment of Solar Generation in […]
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