Peter Gardett

 

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Podcast: Searching High And Low For Natural Gas

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With natural gas prices the determining factor in a wide and growing array of energy industry decisions, the reliability of the massive expansion in reserve availability estimates is increasingly under review.

Searching for natural gas deposits has become increasingly sophisticated, with satellites and seismic testing that searches underground in ways that old-fashioned wildcatters could only dream of. The estimates are still extraordinarily sketchy, however, with more than a quarter of current reserve forecasts still characterized as “speculative” by the science heavy-weights sitting on the Potential Gas Committee. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 18, 2011 at 6:00 AM

AOL Energy Week In Review

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Cities are laboratories of dreams and nightmares, showcases of human technology and achievement and a locus for ancient fears.

Cities are also increasingly different. Cities are no longer similar one to the other; the jammed highways of Los Angeles are fundamentally different from the packed streets of contemporary Istanbul. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM

The Human Face Of Chinese Urban Energy

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The world hears every day of China’s staggering growth, its rampant urbanization, and its accruing economic and political power, but it is rare to see the unguarded faces and hear the unfiltered voices of the Chinese themselves even as the coverage of their country grows in volume and hysteria.

This video acts as an antidote to views of the Chinese, and their energy consumption, as simplistically monolithic in their all-consuming drive to development. It follows in short form a Chinese couple that has relocated to the bright lights of Shanghai from the countryside, like so many of their compatriots. The pair live and farm near the massive Waigaoqiao coal-fired power plant, and their discussion of the plant underlines the difficult and complex choices emerging economies are making as they struggle to meet their population’s needs without straining their environments beyond repair. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 14, 2011 at 6:00 AM

GE Forms New Energy Management Business

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Following a spate of acquisitions and a five-year $11 billion pop in revenue growth, GE Energy is moving around its top executives and forming a new energy management business.

The new GE Energy Management business will “consist of technology solutions for the delivery, management, conversion and optimization of electrical power for customers across multiple energy-intensive industries,” the company said in announcing the changes today. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM

The Clean Economy Goes Metro

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The roles of the renewable energy and green manufacturing sector in driving a US economic recovery are set to be major issues in the upcoming 2012 national elections, and positioning on the subject has already begun.


The “clean” economy is already a fast-growing piece of the economy in the 100 largest US metropolitan areas, and with a sustained focus on regional innovation and research cluster development cities could be leaders in prompting renewed economic growth, a Washington, DC-based think tank said. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM

First Stop Brooklyn: Wind Energy Startup Makes An Unlikely Home

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Wind Analytics is everything an energy firm isn’t supposed to be.

The startup firm is new, small in scale, focused on leveraging distributed generation, funded by venture capital and headquartered in an icily cool part of New York City’s Brooklyn Borough. In an industry dominated by behemoth established players built on the hub-and-spoke model of centralized fossil fuel energy production distributed over vast physical footprints, Wind Analytics differences make it the anomaly that could just be the industry’s data-driven future. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 12, 2011 at 2:15 PM

The Daunting Energy Diversity Of Cities

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Most of us live and work in cities, even when those cities don’t always correspond to the popular image of tall buildings and rushing crowds.


As the world urbanizes at an historic pace, countries that began the industrialization cycle more than a century ago are struggling to match creaking and multi-layered infrastructures with growing and shifting requirements for plentiful and affordable electricity. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM

AOL Energy Week In Review

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The energy game took almost no break for the short holiday week following US Independence Day on July 4, with a host of new environmental regulations hitting the books just as companies completed deals for new renewable energy generating capacity.

Energy players traditionally slow down for the summer, though in recent years a series of crises and sustained, if localized, strains on summer generating capacity have limited executives’ and regulators’ capacity for relaxation. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM

Coffee With The Governor: George Pataki

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When talking with Governor Pataki, it isn’t necessary to clarify which position you are talking about when you ask him if he’ll “run.”

The looming presidential election of November 2011 has begun to exert a kind of gravitational pull on everything the former New York governor does with his days, which since leaving elected office a little more than four years ago includes working at the New York office of law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP, running a consulting firm Pataki-Cahill and lending his support to the deficit and debt-reduction effort No American Debt. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Pataki Gets Presidential Over Energy, Fracking Policies

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Disappointment with energy and debt policy in the US may prompt a Republican presidential bid from former New York Governor George Pataki.

Pataki told Breaking Energy today that he is thinking about running for President, capping a career that has included state governor, state senator, and mayor. Pataki is currently also Counsel at the New York office of law firm Chadbourne and Parke LLP. Even if he doesn’t run, Pataki said he will “get actively involved” in the race. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 7, 2011 at 1:25 PM
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