Don’t ban coal for electricity generation.
That was the plea from utility officials and state regulators trying to cope with the flood of regulations now coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency. Keep reading →
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Regional transmission organizations (RTOs) must be more transparent in their operations and accountable to the states where they operate, says Malcolm Woolf, Director of the Maryland Energy Administration.
“We are at the mercy of PJM,” the Middle Atlantic regional transmission operator, said Woolf. “We’re increasingly aware we do not have the tools we need to solve problems” of electricity supply and price for state citizens. Keep reading →
For the US, aspiring to be merely energy independent is “too modest,” says Manhattan Institute Adjunct Fellow Mark Mills.
Instead, the US should collaborate with Canada and Mexico to not only fulfill domestic needs but make North America the world’s largest energy supplier, Mills says in a new report, “Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus.” Keep reading →
It’s the 1 million barrel per day question.
By 2035, US petroleum imports could drop as low as one in every four barrels consumed, but achieving that much import reduction depends heavily on raising vehicle mileage standards. Keep reading →
U.S. Energy Information Administrator Guy Caruso (R) compares notes with U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Centery Energy Managing Director Karen Harbert (C) as Deutsche Bank Chief Energy Economist Adam Sieminski looks on before they testify to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming about ‘The Future of Oil’ June 11, 2008 in Washington, DC.
As US oil production from shales grows, it may make sense to allow some oil exports in specific circumstances, says the new head of the Energy Information Administration. Keep reading →
There hasn’t been much about climate change in the Presidential election campaign – but that’s about to change.
A federal appeals court has put climate change front-and-center in the Presidential election.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit June 26 strongly upheld a series of Environmental Protection Agency decisions over the last three years on regulating greenhouse gases. Keep reading →
Red-state voters spend more of their disposable income on energy than those in blue states, and this election year that has them seeing, well, red.
That’s among the conclusions of an analysis of energy and presidential politics done by Kevin Book, Managing Director of Research for ClearView Energy Partners in Washington, DC. Keep reading →
The potential for underground injections to cause earthquakes was thought to be a problem for natural gas, but a new National Research Council study says the impacted sector will not be gas. It’s a problem for coal.
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), pulling carbon out of emissions from coal-burning and storing it deep underground, has been prominent in clean energy planning over the last decade as a way to keep taking advantage of coal resources to meet energy demand while tackling climate change. Keep reading →
To the experts, it’s a Geomagnetic Disturbance, or GMD. To most of us, it’s a solar flare.
Whatever its name, it can fry a large electricity system, burn out controls, and black out square miles in seconds, like the massive flare that brought down the grid in Canada’s Quebec province for nine hours in 1989.
Now, the power industry and regulators responsible for electric reliability are trying to figure out how to stop it, or at least minimize the potential damage. Keep reading →
US President Barack Obama (L) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R) tour Photovoltaic Array at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 27, 2009 with Base Commander Colonel Howard Belote.
The US military services want to derive 3 gigawatts of electric capacity from renewables by 2025, but they don’t have the budget to pay to build it. Keep reading →
