Utilities: one of your largest customers is under legal obligation to use less energy. Way less energy. If you’re not figuring out how to cope, you’d better start now, as this timely article from EnerNex Vice President Stuart McCafferty makes clear. — Jesse Berst By the end of 2013, the federal government’s 7.5% renewable energy… Keep reading →
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) could be the most important state agency you’ve never heard of, and help fund. “NYSERDA’s earliest efforts focused solely on research and development with the goal of reducing the State’s petroleum consumption. Today, NYSERDA’s aim is to help New York meet its energy goals: reducing… Keep reading →
With the Solar Impulse plane on a flight path now headed toward New York, it seemed only natural to focus on the quiet transformation happening in the airline fuel business which refiners should be taking very seriously. The idea of using sustainable, cleaner burning fuels for aircrafts has been around for a while. However, considering… Keep reading →
An unusually slow White House review process is holding up stricter energy efficiency requirements for appliances, lighting and buildings proposed by the Department of Energy. The delay – the review process has taken as much as two years for some of the rules in question – seems at odds with the administration’s push for vehicle… Keep reading →
Smart Meters are amassing reams of data that, when effectively analyzed and applied, can help energy consumers at all levels – residential, commercial and industrial – cut down on both their consumption and their bills. And social media, backed by strong analytics, may prove to be an effective tool for delivering efficiency improvements. Using the… Keep reading →
Logging could result in large amounts of carbon being released from deep in forest soils, according to a new study. It’s a timely report given Europe’s growing embrace of wood as a carbon neutral energy source. That Europe is relying on wood to meet its renewable energy goal of 20 percent by 2020 might surprise… Keep reading →
By John W Schoen With more Americans hitting the road as the summer driving season kicks off, they’re paying a lot more attention to the price of gasoline at the pump. And with prices spiking in several parts of the country, a lot of drivers are wondering why they are suddenly shelling out more to… Keep reading →
Pipeline transportation and energy storage giant Kinder Morgan is expanding its terminal business into owning, leasing and acquiring natural resource properties. Despite coal being a dirty word with regard to power generation and climate change, Kinder Morgan will purchase coal reserves and lease them to mining companies for development and royalty compensation. While Kinder Morgan… Keep reading →
Statoil will assume its first shale operatorship outside the United States through a deal to up its stake in PetroFrontier’s Australian permits to as much as 80%. The Norwegian company will have to spend $160 million on exploration through 2016 under the deal. [Reuters] Opec left its 2013 global oil demand forecast unchanged in its… Keep reading →
By Javier E David Despite the slow rate of adoption of natural gas to fuel motor vehicles, a confluence of trends in favor of natgas is shaping up to loosen the stranglehold petroleum has on the transportation fuel market, according to Citigroup. In a lengthy research report this week, the bank cited rising global natgas… Keep reading →
