Everywhere I go, utilities and the vendors who serve them are talking about the advent of distributed generation. They all agree that DG will be a disruptive force, even if they disagree how quickly it will hit critical mass. Your future is a distributed one, so it’s not too soon to start thinking through the… Keep reading →
Speakers at the Energy Information Administration Conference in Washington, DC this week addressed three critical questions raised by the prospect of US LNG exports: how much US gas will the global market take, what impact will US exports have on global prices, and will development of unconventional gas outside of North America have a dampening… Keep reading →
A lot of “unfortunate” attention was put on the Federal Reserve’s leadership ahead of yesterday’s FOMC meeting following President Obama’s comments that Chairman Ben Bernanke has “already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.” So while potential candidate names such as Janet Yellen, Timothy Geithner, Christina Romer, Stanley Fischer, Larry… Keep reading →
Several years ago, when Cleveland’s Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) first started to offer energy assessments for our business members, we anticipated lines out the door. Well, perhaps not lines, but we thought that business owners would be eager to learn how they could cut their utility bills. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. It seems that people… Keep reading →
New York State’s energy czar Richard Kauffman has a broad remit, from building a billion dollar “Green Bank” to remaking shamed utility LIPA, and he’s hit the ground running after taking the job 5 months ago. “The Governor [Cuomo] announced a billion dollar green bank, so we’re doing the work to set up that entity,”… Keep reading →
The Wall Street Journal’s Justin Scheck and Jenny Gross have done a nice job laying out how oil traders can manipulate prices. The EU has has been investigating the trading arms of some large oil companies, including Norway’s Statoil, in an effort to determine whether energy traders are doing just that. [Wall Street Journal] On… Keep reading →
In the midst of the shale revolution, US proved natural gas reserves drove the first ever global decline in proved gas reserves in 2012, and it all comes down to low prices, according to BP Chief Economist Christof Rühl. Global proved natural gas reserves fell by half a trillion cubic metres in 2012 compared to… Keep reading →
Better lighting, energy reductions, and no more blinds—with View Inc.‘s dynamic glass Has View Inc. and its electrochromic window glass solved the cost challenge that has long stymied this innovative building efficiency technology? Corning (NYSE: GLW), the 160-year-old glass giant, must believe it has — as it just led a $60 million funding round in… Keep reading →
By Erin Carson, Energy Solutions Forum Several New York Energy Week panels slated for June 25 will highlight the impact of the shale oil and gas revolution on economic growth and national energy security policy. Top officials from industry and government will hold multiple panels in New York to offer new insight into how the oil and gas boom could… Keep reading →
I recently took delivery of my Tesla Model S, and it brings me back to a time when the word ‘electric’ stood for cool, as in electric fantastic, electric banana, electric kool-aid. So last month, I decided to hit the electric highway, and try out smoke-free driving from Washington through New England and back. Family… Keep reading →
