Strong growth in international drilling activity helped increase quarterly profits for some of the largest oil companies in the industry. Oil services company Baker Hughes Inc. said last week the number of […]
Metrics: Replace GDP with Disposable Energy
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas report, Assessing the Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: "Our bottom-line estimate of the cost of the crisis, assuming output eventually […]
Baltic Dependence on Russian Gas About to End
At the moment, European energy markets are heavily dependent on Russian supplies. This is especially true of the countries with direct land borders to the big bear, including Finland and the Baltic […]
Tech Talk – ten years is a long time to wait for power
via Bit Tooth Energy http://bittooth.blogspot.com/2013/10/tech-talk-ten-years-is-long-time-to.html
U.S. energy-related carbon pollution at lowest since 1994
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the United States fell to 5.29 billion metric tons in 2012 – its lowest level since 1994 – despite a growing economy […]
Origin says solar and storage coming quicker than thought
Origin Energy, Australia’s largest utility, says the take-up of rooftop solar and storage has, and will, take the industry by surprise. Meanwhile energy experts say that solar, storage and other forms of […]
Highlights of new Drilling Productivity Report
EIA’s new Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) takes a fresh look at oil and natural gas production, starting with an assessment of how and where drilling for hydrocarbons is taking place. The first […]
Time to Reconsider Solar Net Metering Alternatives: Storage
Stories are abounding in the media on electric utilities being nervous and down right reactionary to adding solar (and wind) on the electric grid. On October 15th, The Huffington Post’s story on […]
U.S. Chamber, Kochs Join ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Lobbying Battle | InsideClimate News
via U.S. Chamber, Kochs Join ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Lobbying Battle | InsideClimate News http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20131022/us-chamber-kochs-join-%E2%80%98social-cost-carbon%E2%80%99-lobbying-battle?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solveclimate%2Fblog+%28InsideClimate+News%29
Fed Report Says Solar Leads All New U.S. Capacity Except Gas
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Energy Projects reports new natural gas dominated the first three quarters of the year with 5.85 […] via SolarIndustryMag.com http://www.solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.13358
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