Insights from our Editorial Team
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Apr 24, 2013 |
When you hear the phrase "electricity theft," you may automatically picture places like India or Brazil where the number of power outages is astounding. Unfortunately, electricity thieves can be found in nearly every country across the globe, including the U.S.
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Apr 23, 2013 |
For more than 100 years electricity generation and distribution systems have evolved to become one of the most reliable services imaginable - one which has been the foundation of the industrial expansion and prosperity of the developed world. Our society is totally dependent upon this and even relatively short and localized interruptions in the power supply (for example during the Sandy superstorm) cause major disruptions to everyday life.
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Apr 22, 2013 |
News of the European Union and its troubles with the program there to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions is spreading around the globe. What will happen and how might that experience affect California and New England, where similar efforts are underway?
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Apr 21, 2013 |
The future of coal generation is about two months away. That’s when Duke Energy will fire up its 618-megawatt coal gasification plant in Indiana, which can also run on natural gas. While the project has endured cost overruns and heavy criticism, the company says that it will be clean, efficient -- and well worth it.
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Apr 18, 2013 |
The damaging effects that result from burning coal may soon be nonexistent. It took scientists from Ohio State University 15 years and $5 million, but the clean coal technique has finally been developed. They have discovered a way to obtain the energy from coal without actually burning it, eliminating nearly all of the pollution.
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Apr 17, 2013 |
China is getting accolades for its green energy policies that are attracting private investors. The Asian nation, in fact, is once again the global leader in terms of the amount of money it is raising from private interests. It is followed by the United States and Germany. What's behind the numbers?
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Apr 16, 2013 |
After years of fits and starts, utility-scale solar-generated power is finally poised to emerge from the shadows, propelled by a combination of technology breakthroughs, state renewable energy mandates and lucrative federal and state grants and tax incentives, according to many industry observers. This year promises to be a breakthrough one for solar generation, with a number of large projects coming on line.
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Apr 15, 2013 |
What’s going to happen to the future of climate change regs and Gina McCarthy? Both will move forward but each will get tempered to comport with the political and legal realities as well as the Obama administration’s overall economic agenda.
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Apr 14, 2013 |
The transition to a society that uses energy more wisely won’t occur overnight, and as such, the paybacks will take a while. The market place, though, is gradually evolving, in part because state regulators are methodically incorporating incentives. Growth is steady, which is generating results, leading to greater efficiencies and higher productivity for those using the technology.
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Apr 11, 2013 |
The Japanese nuclear disaster two years ago has gotten people thinking about what they might do if such an accident happened in their neck of the woods. Here in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in charge of radiological emergency preparedness.
