Insights from our Editorial Team
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Jan 15, 2013 |
Access to electric energy is an "indispensable element of sustainable human development," according to the International Energy Agency. Without access to modern, commercial energy, poor countries can be trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, social instability and underdevelopment. About 1.6 billion people -some 25 percent of the world's 6 billion-plus population - have no access to electricity.
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Jan 14, 2013 |
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE National Laboratory has started an incubator program with the goal of accelerating the development of innovative energy technologies. Dubbed the hpc4energy Incubator, the program allows selected participants to tap the lab's research expertise and use some of the world's highest performance computing systems.
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Jan 12, 2013 |
Until now, investment in renewable energy has depended on subsidies from the federal and state governments. But subsidies are not always available, and that makes business models that count on them unreliable for providing renewable energy, yet good for losing taxpayer and investor money. Meanwhile, treating renewable energy investment as a sale of goods to the utility companies - in effect, a commodity transaction - introduces unneeded risk and volatility.
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Texas wind farm is its latestJan 10, 2013 |
Google is continuing to search for profitable green energy investments. Its latest find is near Amarillo, Texas where it invested $200 million in a wind plant that generates 161 megawatts.
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Jan 09, 2013 |
The Republican majority on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said in a Jan. 8 statement that Georgia Power’s recent announcement of plans to retire 15 mostly coal-fired units totaling over 2,000 MW is the latest impact of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “War on Coal.”
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Nebraska Paves Way for Ultimate ApprovalJan 08, 2013 |
The obstacles blocking the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline are falling one-by-one. The presidential encounter was huge. But the next biggest would be that of the state of Nebraska, which had put the brakes on the original deal.
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Jan 07, 2013 |
Inexpensive natural gas is not only altering the traditionally favorable dispatch position of coal-fired power but even challenging the economics of solar and wind power.
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Jan 06, 2013 |
New York State is moving a step closer to allowing fracking on certain properties there. Its governor has been awaiting the findings of a detailed analysis on whether the shale gas drilling process can be done without jeopardizing the local water supplies and the region’s air quality.
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Residential power demand sensitive to priceJan 03, 2013 |
Increased efficiency in the residential power market could temper demand growth through 2015, Bernstein Research said in an industry analysis.
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Jan 02, 2013 |
The New Year may be ringing hollow for wind energy developers even though they have secured a one-year extension of their coveted tax credits. A full-scale evolution will require a much broader tax strategy, meaning that the one-year extension will only add confusion.
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