This month’s quick take on the monthly US supply/demand, import/export numbers, released today for May. If the soaring price of RINs was spurring exports during the spring, the evidence in the report […]
Rank ‘Em: The Most Solar-Friendly States in the US
A new report from the Environment America Research & Policy Center acknowledges what it deems are the top 12 U.S. states for solar energy ranked by several criteria, from new and […]
Charting the Course to a Renewable Energy Future
As environmentalists have pushed for greater investment in wind and solar energy, critics have insisted that renewable sources of power could never provide more than a fraction of world energy demand. Evidence […]
Efficiency Drove U.S. Emissions Decline, Not Natural Gas, Study Says
Conventional wisdom says switching to natural gas is why CO2 fell last year, but a recent analysis found a different explanation. By Maria Gallucci Aggressive energy efficiency efforts by households, companies and […]
Report: Utilities Missing Opportunity on Combined Heat and Power
Combined heat and power, an energy-saving technique for generating both heat and power from a single fuel source, is not yet as widespread as it could be in the U.S. And according […]
Will the Bakken “Red Queen” Have to Run Faster?
This post is an update and continued expansion to my previous posts about tight/shale oil in Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota (ND): Is Shale Oil Production from Bakken Headed for a Run […]
Goldman Sachs says coal-export terminals are a bad investment
Goldman Sachs says the market for coal exports is slowing and related infrastructure projects, like those planned for the U.S. Northwest, “will struggle to earn a positive return.” via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/goldman-sachs-says-coal-export-terminals-are-a-bad-investment/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed
Note to Australia: Thermal coal is over : Renew Economy
via Note to Australia: Thermal coal is over : Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/note-to-australia-thermal-coal-is-over-65519?utm_source=feedly
How Fit Are Feed-In Tariff Policies?
via Renewable Energy World http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/07/how-fit-are-feed-in-tariff-policies?cmpid=rss
Battery storage: The numbers don’t add up – yet : Renew Economy
At the big clean energy conferences that have been held in three continents over the last two months the major topic of conversation has been clear – battery storage – what it […]
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