EnergyBiz Insights

  • May 17, 2012 | Ken Silverstein

    Drilling for natural gas is fracturing many communities. But a recent study by the University of Buffalo, NY is concluding that most major environmental events tied to “fracking” can be nearly mitigated by company action.

  • May 16, 2012 | Wayne Barber

    Update on SONGS: The Edison International (NYSE: EIX) has indicated that both units of the 2,200-MW nuclear station will probably remain offline this summer and the California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) has been drafting contingency plans to keep the lights on in Southern California without the nuclear plant.

From the Editor's Desk - A Blog by Marty Rosenberg

  • Apr 30, 2012 | Martin Rosenberg
    Tomorrow morning, it is ask the editor time in Phoenix, as I head out to speak to a conference of folks engaged in training managers and leaders of energy companies. Here are the questions they would like addressed. 1.       Martin, you spend a considerable amount of time interviewing and talking to many of the top executives of our country’s largest power generating companies – are there any...
  • Apr 25, 2012 | Martin Rosenberg
    Reading the future of the energy sector is far from easy. And the consequence of reading the future is large. It could make the difference between vast profits – or losses, good policies - or bad. Here are a few of the tidbits I have noticed in recent days that had me rubbing my chin. See if they add up to a complete picture for you. Coal company stocks have fallen a shocking 57 percent in the last year – and the stocks are...

Featured from EnergyBiz Magazine

  • EnergyBiz May/June 2012:  The Cap
    Raymond L. Orbach's energy campus goes beyond just the engineering department. It harnesses the resources of many of the schools on the University of Texas at Austin campus to foster a diversified approach toward solving energy issues. The former Department of Energy undersecretary for science - the department's first chief scientist - is out to build the preeminent center of energy research and
  • EnergyBiz May/June 2012:  The Cap
    ALASKA IS HOME to the largest battery energy storage system in the world and has one utility in the Arctic Circle leveraging battery storage to buffer the variability of wind-generated electricity.While utilities and grid operators have long viewed battery energy storage systems as highly desirable, few large-scale deployments have taken place due to the costs of the systems. But the conditions

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