STARTING when they became friends in freshman year at Emory University in Atlanta, Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison F. Dillon would take off into the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado for weeks […]
A Clean Energy REIT: Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure
On April 18th, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE:HASI) IPOed on the New York Stock Exchange. HASI is one of only two publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) dedicated to sustainable […]
A Clean Energy Paradise In The Pacific
When people think Hawaiian paradise, usually beaches, sun and trade winds come to mind. The price of energy? Not so much. The state actually has the highest electric rates in the nation, […]
Is the Typical NDIC Bakken Tight Oil Well a Sales Pitch?
In this post I present the results from dynamic simulations using the typical tight oil well for the Bakken as recently presented by the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC), together with the […]
Verizon’s $100M Fuel Cell and Solar Power Play : Greentech Media
Verizon has just pledged $100 million to the premise that solar power and fuel cells can pay for themselves over time. On Tuesday, the telecommunications giant said it would invest $100 million […]
Fuel Cells 2013: Bloom Energy’s Reality Distortion Field : Greentech Media
First, here’s an updated list of the top three profitable, publicly held fuel cell firms: 1. 2. 3. How do you assess the health of an industry? Is it whether it’s growing? […]
International Energy Agency Shows Coal Power Is Growing Faster than Solar or Wind
Despite remarkable growth, solar and wind power aren’t making a dent in carbon emissions, says a new report from the International Energy Agency. Coal consumption is growing too fast to offset any […]
Hydrogenics Secures Utility-Scale Energy Storage Project
Hydrogenics, an Ontario-based fuel cell equipment manufacturer, inked a deal with E.ON, Germany‘s largest investor-owned electric utility, to install a 1 megawatt “power-to-gas” energy storage system in Hamburg, Germany. The energy storage […]
An update from the ethanol/RINs battleground: hitting physical markets
A few updates from the intersection of RINs and ethanol. It’s starting to look like there have been physical market reactions to the rising price of RINs. First of all, the price […]
EU on Track to Meet 2020 Solar, Wind, Renewables Targets, But…
EU on Track to Meet 2020 Solar, Wind, Renewables Targets, But… The newest European Union (EU) statistics from Eurostat show its member nations are on track to meet their renewables targets but […]
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