Insights from our Editorial Team
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Feb 21, 2012 |
If natural gas is the chosen path, utilities would plan accordingly. But the prudent step, albeit the more difficult one, is to incorporate broader fuel options to avoid events not yet envisioned.
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Panel prices only a partFeb 20, 2012 |
There are two big ideas leading the way toward a more competitive solar market: lower installed cost for systems, obviously, but also the recognition of new business models that encourage utilities to use more of the resource.
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Feb 19, 2012 |
All natural gas, including shale gas, can and should be produced in an environmentally responsible fashion. Our nation possesses a 100-year supply of natural gas. In fact, the United States now has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil, making us the largest producer of natural gas in the world.
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Feb 16, 2012 |
Is the smart grid a pie-in-the-sky idea or will it provide tangible benefits to utilities and their customers? While it may have been sold as a revolutionary tool to integrate renewables and to deliver efficiencies, in reality it looks to be more of an evolutionary process.Comments: 1 -
Prices Must FallFeb 15, 2012 |
Energy storage is getting a bump in the president’s proposed 2013 budget. It’s an extra boost that the industry says that it needs to get out of the lab and into market. Just how far off is the concept whereby such stored power is released when the wind dies down or the sun doesn’t shine?
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Feb 14, 2012 |
When policymakers look for new ways to add jobs to the economy, they need to remember the critical role that American coal is already playing in protecting our jobs and helping our economy. Just as the Hippocratic Oath compels doctors to "first, do no harm," so, too, must our elected and appointed officials ensure that any actions they take will not harm coal and, by extension, our nation's economy.
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Devisive loans, breaks at issue hereFeb 13, 2012 |
The Obama administration is now emboldened: An independent review team headed by a former official in the Bush 11 White House said that U.S. Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program is effectively leveraging the loans to create jobs while much less money needs to be reserved to cover potential losses. Still, the analysis said that the loans must be closely watched after they are awarded.
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NRC Grants Approval to SouthernFeb 12, 2012 |
To be successful with its nuclear foray, Southern Co. needs to first fend off some expected lawsuits as well as demonstrate that it can stay on time and on budget -- something that has hampered nuclear construction in this country since 1978 when the NRC last approved such a project.
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Is that possible?Feb 09, 2012 |
As enthusiastically as the Democrats hailed Solyndra as a symbol of solar's success at creating jobs and innovative product in the market during good times, the Republicans are railing against solar in bad times.
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Money, Politics are factorsFeb 08, 2012 |
Whether it’s the 21st Century’s version of Stars Wars is yet to be seen. But advocates of nuclear fusion are saying that it would be life-changing while politicos are helping to bring it one step closer to reality.
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