Everyone knows energy storage is the key to unlocking renewable energy’s full potential, right? Well, not always. Utility-scale batteries make sense for storage from large solar power systems, but not wind farms, […]
LNG Exports First Step to Depoliticizing Global Oil Market
US manufacturer’s sounded alarm bells last week with the approval of a fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, this time on the East coast at Cove Point Maryland. At issue is […]
More Wind Means Less Baseload Generation
Score one for wind power. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, wind is helping to cut the need for baseload power in a big chunk of the country . The government’s official energy analysts said the […]
Invest in Energy Equities to Profit when the Shale Gas Bubble Bursts
The numbers don’t lie—but politicians and industry bigwigs do. While pundits still wax poetic about an era of American energy independence, Bill Powers, author of the book "Cold, Hungry and in the […]
Not Just Hydropower: Energy Needs Water And Water Needs Energy, Report Finds
It takes water to create energy, and energy to move water. The extent to which these two modern-life giving forces are interwoven is rarely considered. A new report lays out the significance […]
Three Regulatory Models That Could Help Utilities Embrace the Future
The basic business approach used by much of America’s electric power sector has changed little over the past 100 years. Electric utilities operated state granted monopolies on electric sales, but were regulated […]
How the Keystone XL Pipeline Tests the Administration’s Resolve on Climate Change
On the day of his second Inauguration, in January, Barack Obama delivered an address of unabashed liberal ambition and promise. As recently as early April, before the realities of the world and […]
Water Risk on the Rise
Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water-scarce areas. In the absence of more sustainable water management, the share could rise to 45% by 2050, placing a significant portion of […]
Boulder Looks to Solar as It Debates Creating Utility
In an effort to create its own renewably-powered utility, Boulder, Colo., is reaching out to the solar industry to explore how the city will transition from its current electric supply from Xcel Energy to […]
Twenty (Important ) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I
Business as usual as we know it, with economics as its guide and financial metrics as its scorecard, is in its death throes. The below essay is going to appear critical of […]
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