What Is Holding Renewable Energy Back? Bloomberg is now reporting that solar energy is cheaper than coal, and could become the lowest form of energy within a decade. Economies of scale are causing solar to drop from an average of $1.14 a watt all the way to 0.73 cents per watt by 2025. Several agencies, … Continue reading What Is Holding Renewable Energy Back?
Energy companies are about ready to loosen the purse strings The lean years are unlikely to be over for energy companies amid rising crude-oil inventories and global uncertainty, but the industry is expected to start spending again after years of belt-cinching. OPEC and other major players have agreed to cut production starting this month, but … Continue reading Energy companies are about ready to loosen the purse strings
Bone-Chilling Winter From Berlin to Davos Causes Energy Scramble From the rivers criss-crossing eastern Europe to the Mediterranean ports of Greece and France, everyone is hunting for energy supplies. Blizzards, gale force winds, arctic temperatures and river ice thicker than a house has left the stewards of the European energy business frenzied. Prices of natural … Continue reading Bone-Chilling Winter From Berlin to Davos Causes Energy Scramble
Failed energy? SEABROOK, N.H. – Paul Gunter steps out of his Jeep in a near-empty parking lot off Seabrook’s Ocean Boulevard, unfolds his 6-foot-7-inch frame and tugs the bill of a well-worn cap against the sun. Behind him, anglers hang lines into Hampton Harbor from a nearby pier, and kayakers and swimmers play in the … Continue reading Failed energy?
China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020 China intends to spend more than $360 billion through 2020 on renewable power sources like solar and wind, the government’s energy agency said on Thursday. The country’s National Energy Administration laid out a plan to dominate one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, … Continue reading #China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020
Most laid-off energy workers remain out of work, UH study says Nearly 90 percent of oil and gas workers who lost jobs during the oil bust either remain unemployed or have left the sector for other industries, dramatically altering the size and shape of the global energy workforce, according to a study by University of … Continue reading Most laid-off energy workers remain out of work, UH study says
Transforming the Future of Energy These are extraordinary times for renewable energy. Records are broken, commitments are made and setbacks occur almost on a weekly basis. It would be too easy to lament the latest UK Government reshuffle and what it means, because looking at renewable energy purely in a UK context risks missing the … Continue reading Transforming the Future of Energy
U.S. Electric Markets in Transition The U.S. market for electricity is trifurcated. More than half the country is served by competitive generators bidding against each other in wholesale markets. Almost half is served by conventional state-regulated, vertically integrated utilities controlling generation and transmission. The rest, a much smaller portion, consists of government-owned and customer-owned utilities, … Continue reading U.S. Electric Markets in Transition
Polar Vortex Returns. Will Wind Energy Be Left Out in the Cold? The Polar Vortex in 2014 revealed issues with over-reliance on natural gas and under-appreciation of wind and customer demand response. The Union of Concerned Scientists is pushing to correct mistakes when made when the low price of natural gas for most of the … Continue reading #Polar_Vortex Returns. Will Wind Energy Be Left Out in the Cold?
Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business Memo to CEOs who don’t consider themselves in the electricity business: You may not be in the power business today, but you’re more than likely to be in it tomorrow. Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses … Continue reading Why #Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business
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