Most veteran reality-TV watchers know the weight loss program “The Biggest Loser” but the Environmental Protection Agency has its own unique version, “Battle of the Buildings.” Keep reading →
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Although this video features a celebrity, it has a couple of serious points to make. Keep reading →
NRG Energy is a massive and diverse power generation company with assets ranging from lignite coal-fired units in Germany to solar generation in California. Keep reading →
The following observations on issues before the public dealing with the evolving US energy economy reflect my 50 years of experience in the electric power industry both nationally and internationally. This includes seven years as an energy analyst with the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), 12 years with Edison Electric Institute as a VP for Economic Policy, 13 years with Gulf States Utilities retiring as CFO upon the company’s merger with Entergy and six years as a consultant for USAID on electric utility restructuring in the former Soviet Union.
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Energy management firm Hara received $25 million of funding today, writes TechCrunch. Keep reading →
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Chinese energy consumption, and the country’s large-scale investment in clean energy, are increasingly becoming central to the development of the competing US clean energy industry.
Recent efforts at think tanks, colleges and other institutions to bring the US and Chinese clean energy industries to a closer understanding has resulted in a host of events, with Harvard’s China Energy and Environment Conference a recent high-profile addition to the field. Keep reading →
When President Obama announced a goal for the United States to produce 80% of its power from “clean energy” by 2035 in his State of the Union address this year, we folks in the energy industry pricked up our ears . . . and heard a pause. The President continued, “[s]ome folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all.”
The response to this proposal for a national Clean Energy Standard (or CES) by President Obama from certain segments of the renewable energy community has been outright hostility. Different groups have claimed that the President has betrayed his promises, and those groups now pledge to fight anything that is not a “pure,” nationwide Renewable Portfolio Standard (or RPS) focused on “traditional” renewable technologies and energy efficiency. Such an attitude in this political climate couldn’t be more destructive to the long-term prospects for renewable energy on a nationwide basis and reflects a single-issue myopia that does nothing but lead to policy paralysis. Waiting for a national RPS may be akin to waiting for Godot, and perhaps there are some who wish to continue that existential exercise. However, pragmatists will recognize that a broadly supported and properly structured CES can help the renewable energy industry to compete with other low-carbon technologies while providing the long-term policy stability that the industry has always sought. Keep reading →
Venture capitalists claim to have learned their lessons after being burned in the last “green rush.”
Many are trying to reposition away from funding academic science projects to focusing on investor returns, fund managers gathered in California said recently. Keep reading →
