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Forbes recently issued a commentary on the closing of The Oil Drum, which deserves some rebuttal, since, as with many stories on the “Peak Oil” topic, it conveys too many incorrect statements […]

We can better understand our electricity use — as a country and at home — if we break it down by sector and category. via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-do-we-use-electricity/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

The latest exuberant shale gas news comes from a report by the British Geological Survey estimating enormous new shale gas resources in the central UK. On June 27, 2013, the British Geological […]

Fitch analyst suggests that efficiency and distributed solar will soon exert significant financial pressure on utilities. The need for an intelligent regulatory conversation becomes increasingly urgent. via Forbes – Energy http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/07/19/time-to-short-your-electric-utility/

A recently published primer on net energy metering (NEM) from the solar industry explains why it is under attack by utilities across the country — and explores how the two opposing sides […]

Around the world, new government mandates and stimulus funding have catalyzed the deployment of smart meters. In the U.S. alone, $3.4 billion allocated from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding will be […]

If the price of grid-scale energy storage fell to zero dollars per megawatt-hour, regulators and utilities would still be puzzled in how to deploy the boon of energy storage.  That’s because storage […]

Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are another component of upstream energy production Natural gas liquids, or NGLs, refer to a group of hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, butanes, and pentanes) that are often… via Market […]

Increased takeaway solutions from the booming Bakken region have helped differentials to close and stabilize. via Market Realist http://marketrealist.com/2013/07/enhanced-takeaway-solutions-stabilize-wti-bakken-spread/

Over the past few years the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been called upon to investigate cases of domestic content rules (DCR, also known as local content rules or LCR) in renewable […]