Developing EPA regulations can substantially reduce future and eventually current Coal Power Plants’ carbon emissions. What are the more optimal solutions to minimizing costs and maximizing benefit impacts of shutting down most […]
Super-large-scale solar installations are surging in the US
Don’t write Big Solar off yet. With the plunge in photovoltaic panel prices, US utilities that once enthusiastically signed deals for massive solar power plants to be built in the desert began […]
China’s northeast hit by air pollution so bad “you can’t see your own fingers in front of you”
It’s getting colder in China, which means firing up the coal plants and turning the atmosphere into a toxic sauna. And it’s not surprising that China’s first major “airpocalypse” of this winter […]
The solar revolution is being fought by the middle class
American utility executives worry that the solar boom will cost them revenue as homeowners generate their own electricity. Some have depicted solar enthusiasts as green elites who will saddle their less wealthy […]
World economy a ‘major worry’ for OPEC oil producers
OPEC sees a possible drop in energy demand caused by a weaker world economy as its “main area of concern” for the next several months, the group’s secretary-general said. via Fuel Fix […]
Will Plug Power Be the First Profitable Fuel Cell Company?
Plug Power’s CEO, Andy Marsh, is looking for profitability for his fuel cell firm in 2014. A profitable quarter for a publicly traded fuel cell company would break a 100-year drought in […]
Nevada Utility: Efficiency Can Cut Grid Management Costs by 25%
NV Energy, the largest utility in Nevada, has unveiled some compelling data on how energy efficiency and demand response benefit the grid. In a recent filing with the public utilities commission, the […]
Is Deepwater the Next Oil Bonanza?
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 […]
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