Prometheus Institute

June ended with some major and long-awaited developments in the world of European gas. In no particular order: the Shah Deniz consortium picked the winner for the 10 Bcm/year Caspian Sea gas […]

 I?m often asked my opinion on what the prices of oil or natural gas are going to do. My answer is always the same: If I had the slightest idea what the […]

It might seem as though energy efficiency is on a roll lately, especially after getting a shot in the arm from President Obama as part of his climate action plan. But energy […]

Grist’s David Roberts recently finished a 9-part deep dive on America’s utilities and the future of our electricity grid. I didn’t agree with everything in it, but it’s absolutely required summer reading […]

A question that seems to come up quite often is, “Are we going to have inflation or deflation?” People want to figure out how to invest. Because of this, they want to […]

New solar technologies are offering the prospect of baseload solar energy to power mines and other remote industrial facilities – for less than current fossil fuel alternatives. The miners are curious, and […]

Solar towers with storage are poised to deliver dispatchable energy whenever customers want it, and at a cost competitive or even cheaper than new fossil fuels. Is this about to change the […]

GENEVA 3 July 2013 – The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended […]

A study conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has shown that over a lifetime of ownership, diesel-fueled vehicles tend to have a lower cost of ownership than conventional gasoline-fueled […]

For years, the cumulative amount of distributed generation (DG) on the grid was akin to a drop of water in a glass.  That is, a tiny drop in a big glass.  But […]