It starts with a ‘C’ and ends with an ‘L.’
Coal may have become the dirtiest word in the energy industry last week when American Electric Power (AEP) finally caved to continued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation pressures and announced that it would “prematurely” retire nearly 6,000 MW of coal generated electricity by the end of 2014. Keep reading →
Choosing the right technology isn’t easy for anyone.
Proliferation of problems to solve and ways to solve them have made every consumers life more difficult, whether the consumer is a large electric utility or a teenager looking for an iPod. Keep reading →
The scale of the energy business is such that firms with more than $10 billion in revenue can fly beneath the radar of public attention and, sometimes, even within the industry itself.
Dutch firm DSM is one such company. Despite its leading role in first developing, and then manufacturing, a significant number of the components that go into making the daily business of the energy industry possible, it remains comparatively low-profile. Keep reading →
Investing in clean energy is generally seen as nice to do, but rarely profitable when compared with dirtier fossil fuels.
But in the sustained search for returns that can show total growth beyond those produced by major equity indexes, funds are beginning to flow at an ever-accelerating rate into markets for clean energy technologies and the companies that develop and provide them. In a global investing environment, much of that funding is going abroad, raising concerns on Capitol Hill. Keep reading →
Customers are mostly ignoring it. Utilities are largely drowning in it. Technology firms are trying to parse it.
Electricity usage data lies at the heart of efforts to remake the US energy sector, and smart meters that enable more-detailed usage data production are actually a challenge for both the customers trying to understand their power bills and can complicate the efforts of generators accustomed to blunt tools when managing complex and delicate generation infrastructure. Keep reading →
Forward Solar Renewable Energy Credit prices have slumped recently; we believe this is a result, at least in part, of market concerns over potential oversupply for Reporting Year 2012.
A recent New Jersey Board of Public Utilities report indicates that the RY 2012 mandate of 442,000 Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) may potentially be exceeded. Keep reading →
New terms are always emerging in the energy business. With GE‘s recent deployment of eight Aero LMS100 turbine-generators in a California natural gas plant intended to act as a partner to renewables by ramping up and down extremely quickly, “wind firming” is the latest term that has emerged in the generation business.
The CPV Sentinel’s eight turbines can reach peak capacity in 10 minutes and are therefore part of “wind firming” because they provide a back-up system for intermittent generation sources such as wind and solar. Keep reading →
GE is diving head-first into renewables generation. Keep reading →
Siemens is looking to hire more than 3,000 workers over the next several months, and many of their ideal candidates are experienced, recent college grads, Lisa Johnson Mandel reports on AOL Jobs.
The international electronics and engineering company is also launching internship programs aimed at producing qualified workers who can be fast-tracked into leadership positions once they graduate. Keep reading →
Consolidation continues in the natural gas industry as companies with access to funding leverage their position in new markets through both acquisition and organic growth.
Natural gas assets are still fairly priced for now in most North American producing regions, Rockwater Energy Solutions Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer Holli Nichols told Breaking Energy. Her Houston-based firm is planning to grow by acquisition and organic growth in North America over the next few years, before turning to international markets. Keep reading →
