Not Really Emission Free The author with Ted Sanderson Nuclear power is definitely getting its day in the sun, partly from long-term nuclear power advocates (duh), but also from those worried about cl...
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Manchin’s Permitting Side Deal Highlights The Energy Transition’s Central Conundrum
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) looks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer … [+] (D-NY) after U.S. President Joe Biden signs The Inflation Reduction Act in the State...
Electric Utilities Hit Renewable Pay Dirt With IRA Passage
Electric cooperatives cover more than half the nation’s land area. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Christmas came early in the electric utility industry this year. To be precise,...
Green Hydrogen Made From Renewables Is A Step Closer Because Of The Inflation Reduction Act
High voltage electricity transmission towers beyond hydrogen storage tanks during the final stages … [+] of construction at Iberdola SA’s Puertollano green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, S...
Energy Provisions In The Inflation Reduction Act
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses with lawmakers after signing the Inflation … [+] Reduction Act after the House of Representatives voted 220-207 to pass it at the US Capitol in ...
Bitcoin network’s power demand drops by over 20% in 2022 as shift to renewables accelerates
In response to China’s cryptocurrency mining crackdown, Bitcoin (BTC) has turned to renewable energy sources, potentially one of the key factors behind triggering an over 20% drop in the network’s pow...
Bitcoin Mining Now Uses 10.9% More Renewables, Goes Unreported
Bitcoin mining might not be the great evil we have been led to believe it is, says Daniel Batten. Since the China-ban, the Bitcoin Mining council reports a significant rise in the use of renewable ene...
Morocco Wants To Be A ‘Destination’ For Renewable Energy
The Noor III solar tower of the Ouarzazate Power Station at dusk. Mark Lacoste, Wikimedis Commons The Sahara has a lot of land and a lot of sun, making it an appealing place to site massive solar gene...
Manchin-Schumer Compromise Is A Watershed Moment For U.S. Energy
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 20: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks to reporters as he leaves the the Senate … [+] Democrats weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on July 20, 2021 in Washington, ...
Clean Energy Remains A Long-Term Leader
The global equity benchmark remains -21% off highs (-24%) to its recent June lows as shown in the Datagraph™ below. William O’Neil + Co. Within the ongoing global bear market, finding areas of r...
Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021
Kern County, CA – March 23: LADWPs Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi … [+] Mountains Tehachapi Mountains on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, CA.(Irfan Khan ...
We Can Improve The Economics Of New Cleantech—Like We Did With Renewables
By Mitsubishi Power Americas As the power industry decarbonizes, affordable clean hydrogen is critical for storing excess wind and solar power to be used weeks or even months later. getty Today, a glo...
Bitcoin’s energy usage drops to 1-year low amid bear market and shift to renewables
Several elements of the crypto market are adjusting to the ongoing correction, with Bitcoin mining energy consumption being the latest sector to demonstrate the impact. As of June 26, the Bitcoin ene...
To Harness Innovation In Renewables, Make The Grid More Flexible
The effort to decarbonize the grid is spurring a variety of clean technologies, from solar shingles to solar canals to solar roads, which can create challenges for the grid. getty The last day of Apri...
Biden Plays The ‘Squid Game’ With The Energy Industry
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – OCTOBER 26: Younghee, the giant robot doll from “Squid Game”, is exhibited at … [+] the Olympic Park on October 26, 2021, in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by ...
BP buys 40.5% stake in massive renewables and green hydrogen project
A BP logo photographed in London on May 12, 2021. The International Energy Agency recently reported that 2021 saw energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rise to their highest level in history. Glyn K...
The Revenge Of The Fossil Fuels
An Engraving of a Locomotive Engine ‘The Rocket’ built by George Stephenson circa 1830. (Photo by … [+] Fotosearch/Getty Images) Getty Images ExxonMobilXOM Corp. shares rallied to a ...
CEOs on gas, renewables and the energy crisis
From the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain shocks to rising inflation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, governments and businesses around the world are attempting to tackle and solve major cris...
Biden Says The Quiet Part About The Energy Transition Out Loud
US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, … [+] not photographed, at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, May 23, 2022. Ki...
Exposed By Putin, The Energy Know-Nothings Must Now Go Away
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during a meeting … [+] at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. / AFP / POOL / MANDEL NGAN (Photo c...
Renewables Remain ‘Cheap’ Despite Supply Chain Chaos
With the energy transition in full swing, new energy research provider BloombergNEF estimates that the global transition will require ~$173 trillion in energy supply and infrastructure investment over...
EU plans renewables expansion, says coal needed a little while longer
A wind turbine and coal in Lower Saxony, Germany. The EU’s desire to wean itself off Russian hydrocarbons means it will need to find fossil fuels from other parts of the world to plug supply gap...
Russia’s Invasion Kills Nord Stream 2 And Gives Rise To Renewables
TOPSHOT – The body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the … [+] roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022, following the Russian invas...
How Oil And Gas Is Being Affected By Climate Change – Response To A Presentation In Mid-America.
A pumpjack siphons oil in the foreground of a wind farm near Sweetwater, Texas. Corbis via Getty Images Independence, Kansas, is a small conservative town in the heart of the USA. The area produced oi...
Solar Overtakes Wind Energy For First Time In Global Rush For Renewables
Solar photovoltaic panels alongside a wind farm getty Solar power has overtaken wind for the first time, in the race to develop renewable energy capacity around the globe. According to the Internation...
Examining Germany’s Post-Russia Path For Energy Sources
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar BERNAU, GERMANY – MAY 31: Wind turbines producing electricity spin on May 31, 2021 near Bernau, … [+] Germany. While the number of new installed turbines ...
Western Oil Companies, Facing New Demands, Find It Easier To Exit Russia
Loren Steffy, UH Energy Scholar NOVOKUIBYSHEVSK, RUSSIA – MARCH 15: A general view of the Novokuibyshev Refinery owned by Rosneft … [+] oil company on March 15, 2012 in Novokuibyshevsk, Sa...
Exxon To Mount A Major Hydrogen, CCS Project At Its Baytown Complex
BAYTOWN, TX – The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery Complex. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Getty Images As part of its expanding Low Carbon Solutions business unit, ExxonMobil announced plans on...
Deep Dive On Climate As Sea Levels – And Wars
Finding Beauty in A Broken World Shelby Chen It was a strange but premonitory connecting of dots. As Russia invaded Ukraine, I was sitting in a 3-day ‘deep dive’ at Harvard, learning from some of the ...
Speed up renewables investment to guarantee energy independence: CEO
The CEO of Portuguese utility EDP has linked the rapid adoption of renewables to Europe’s energy independence, telling CNBC that investment in the sector needed to be “much faster.” ...