Prometheus Institute

Most people find it tough to get excited about regulators. But President Obama’s nomination of Ron Binz to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is reason to sit up and take […]

This piece provides a basic insight into the way climate change in conjunction with environmental and public health concerns have triggered a regulatory response by National, State and Local Governments. It will […]

In 2012 renewable energy — largely wind and solar — accounted for nearly 50 percent of all new electric generation put on the U.S. grid. According to a new Ernst & Young […]

Earlier this month, the World Bank announced the launch of US$ 550 million dollars of Green Bonds. Are Green Bonds a way forward for climate finance, or will the World Bank’s Green […]

For the first time, Texas is connecting most of its wind farms to its largest cities. That’s bringing cheap electricity into the service area of Energy Future Holdings Corp., bad news to […]

In Libya strikes by oilfield workers have reduced daily production of crude oil dramatically from 1.6 million barrels a day to an estimated 250,000 barrels a day. In Iraq there have been […]

It turns out that in the end I wrote some 929 posts on The Oil Drum, over the course of its eight-year life, 92 of them in the past two years. The […]

As with everything else, it’s all about economic feasibility. This is the story of kerogen (oil shale), and could be a huge one, or it could just stay in the ground for […]

Back in March 2005 I posted my first offering to the new site that Kyle and I had agreed to call “The Oil Drum.” Now, some eight years later, this will be […]

There are huge gaps between how much carbon a country extracts, produces and consumes. Recognising this should be key when designing climate policy. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/mind-carbon-gap-three-ways-count-emissions-93264?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mind-carbon-gap-three-ways-count-emissions-93264