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China’s state news agency Xinhua just announced a pilot program to “control” coal consumption in a few dozen major cities, including Beijing. January’s “airpocalypse“, when pollution reached unprecedented levels, spurred outrage among […]

The prescient economist A. Gary Schilling says US growth is going to remain slow for some time to come. In a piece for Bloomberg View yesterday, he wrote that the US is […]

The value of existing and potential electricity supply resources depends mostly on how much and when they operate. Because the electric industry currently lacks large-scale storage, supply is adjusted in real time […]

Under what conditions will a technology be able to survive the energy contraction associated with the depletion of fossil fuels? Which types of technologies are sustainable in a world that can only […]

How can we transition the electricity industry to the ‘new normal,’ with increasing uptakes of solar PV and energy efficiency? APVA has a plan. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/new-power-market-structures-distributed-energy-22425?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-power-market-structures-distributed-energy-22425

According to the latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) “Electric Power Monthly,” with preliminary data through to June 30, 2013, renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) […]

Bloomberg New Energy Finance has issued forecasts for the amounts of distributed PV and utility PV to be installed in China between this year and 2030. via News – PV-Tech http://www.pv-tech.org/news/bnef_china_report_predicts_up_to_206gw_distributed_pv_to_be_installed_in_20?utm_source=pvtech-feeds&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-rss-feed

Years of excessive investment are catching up with China, and the latest example is coal. Its reserves now contain 220 million tons (200 million tonnes) of coal, as the Hao Hao Report […]

European wind turbine manufacturing giants like Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), Germany’s Nordex SE (NDX1) and Gamesa Corp. Technologica SA (GAM) are in for a nice year, with profit recouping predicted […]

Just like the famous Gold Rushes of the 19th century, US shale gas development is turning out to be a limited and regional market opportunity. Across the Atlantic, the high financial and […]