The increase in residential and light commercial project funding from leases and PPAs is a boon to the solar industry but comes with unique risks that require careful management. With financiers and […]
Coal Industry’s 2012 Outlook Falls
U.S. Firms Face Double Threat of Cheap Natural Gas, Weak European Demand This year’s outlook is grim for the U.S coal industry, which after two years of rising profits has begun closing […]
Carbon Capture Project Gets First U.S. PPA
CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed the nation’s first power purchase agreement for electricity from a commercial-scale carbon capture project. The utility, the largest one in the U.S. owned by a […]
Chesapeake to cut natural gas production while increasing Ohio oil operations | cleveland.com
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Faced with decade-low natural gas prices that have made some drilling operations unprofitable, Chesapeake Energy Corp. says that it will drastically cut drilling and production of the fuel […]
Why FERC’s energy storage ruling is important
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission recently passed a mandate to support energy storage technologies that can provide quick bursts of power to the grid to help it run more smoothly. This new rule could […]
Why Wind Power Doesn’t Work
A very interesting report out of Holland which has in it a little point which shows why wind power simply doesn’t work in any attempt to deal with climate change. My apologies, […]
Energy efficiency: still awesome, still ignored
There was a brief, heady time in the late ’00s when it seemed like energy efficiency was finally going to get the spotlight. For years — decades, really — efficiency geeks lamented […]
WEC scenarios envision radically different transport sector by 2050
The World Energy Council’s (WEC’s) ‘Global Transport Scenarios 2050’ report highlights the role of governments in providing a sustainable future for the global transport sector. The WEC expects transport fuel demand in […]
Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales in U.S. in 2012 | Clean Fleet Report
Gartner, the largest technology market research firm, is forecasting 100,000 electric car sales in 2012 in the United States. Yesterday, I took in the presentation at the SV Forum and then talked […]
Are we on the cusp of a third industrial revolution?
Imagine the internet, only for energy. Imagine that, as well as tens of millions of personal computers all linked together, exchanging information this way and that, you had tens of millions of personal […]
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