Any time you get a few solar financiers together, the conversation inevitably turns to the potential of financial tools and pooled assets such as securitization, REITs, and MLPs to disrupt the world […]
Clean Energy’s Next Big Market: Off-Grid Solar
Everywhere you look, the off-grid clean energy market is booming. Sub-Saharan Africa is seeing 300 percent compound annual growth in off-grid lighting; Bangladesh is putting up 30,000 to 40,000 solar home systems every month; […]
Utility Poles: Should we send them underground?
Utility poles. And the wires strung between them. Those who have grown up in the U.S. generally don’t notice them––or how unsightly they look. But visitors from abroad are often astonished. In […]
Capacity Markets: Life Support for Fossil Fuels or the Next Frontier for Renewables?
Clean energy advocates have historically fought hard for every single inch of progress made. As a result, there is a tendency to focus on the immediate opportunities in deployment, rather than thinking […]
How The American Coal Industry Found Itself In An Economic No Man’s Land
Economic limitations may prevent it from taking advantage of a natural gas lull, and the economic advantages of not burning it mount everyday. The post How The American Coal Industry Found Itself […]
[CLOSED] Tech Talk – of Alaska, Libya and the belated bleat of awareness of a problem
I have written in earlier posts about the problems that the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System (TAPS) will face, as production declines below 500,000 bd. The conclusions from that post are pictorially summarized in […]
Scientists wary of shale oil and gas as U.S. energy salvation
Oct. 28, 2013 — After 10 years of production, shale gas in the United States cannot be considered commercially viable, according to several scientists presenting at the Geological Society of America meeting […]
Toyota Develops New Fuel-Cell Car
Soon there will be an electric car on the market that, believe it or not, works like a normal car. It will have a range of 600 kilometers (375 miles). Recharging it […]
EIA’s new map layers provide more detailed information on petroleum infrastructure
In recent years, midstream U.S. crude oil infrastructure has adapted to increased onshore oil production, leading to some changes in crude oil and petroleum product movement around the country. To help users […]
Nuclear energy verdict: Costly, slow and very high maintenance
The story we published on Friday comparing the costs of new nuclear, now that they have been defined by contract signed by the UK Government for the construction of the $24 billion […]
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