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 →
After a decade of sluggish and piecemeal progress on crafting a new electricity market, the US federal government is finally showing its hand in the growing debate over how to ease new infrastructure investment in the sector.
IBM’s smart grid project in Malta seemed unique because the island’s tiny size allowed for easy installation a national energy communications system. Though exponentially larger than Malta, a national and federally-mandated energy system may be nearer in the United States than ever before. Keep reading →
As many in the electricity business have known for several years now, it is all about natural gas. Keep reading →
“Let’s compete a little bit,” Siemens‘ Chief Sustainability Officer Alison Taylor told Breaking Energy.
Competition, she said, will motivate cities that are not ranked near the top of a newly-released Siemens-sponsored report on energy efficiency to implement programs that will improve their score. Keep reading →
Investors and businesses searching for ways to benchmark their investments in clean energy are suddenly spoiled for choice.
After years of complex and cumbersome research requirements for those seeking investment portfolio exposure to alternative energy, companies are rushing out newly public index products and data sets that investors large and small can begin to use in their search for returns that aren’t correlated to traditional energy investments. Keep reading →
Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs.
Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) and NMPP Energy, a public power consortium covering parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and Colorado, detailed his members’ experiences at the American Public Power Association conference in Washington last week. Keep reading →
Could it really be all about jobs?
A release of 60 million barrels of crude oil from consumer nations’ reserves signals consumers working with producers, analysts said today. Keep reading →
Money can come from the strangest places.
With Google’s investment of $280 million in rooftop solar panels on Tuesday, bringing its total investments in renewable power to $680 million, experts are beginning to see the internet search-engine giant as the newest green tech finance firm. Keep reading →
The trick to a successful game of “tug of war” lies in having two sides that are equally matched, but whose strengths are different.
Impasses created by matched sides are less entertaining and substantially more serious in an industry “tug of war” like that currently underway in the energy business. Keep reading →
Before NASA went to space, it focused on flying on Earth.
With oil prices rising, and some calling for global tariffs on jet fuel, NASA is leading the way on alternative fuels for airplanes and other vehicles. In this podcast, AOL Energy’s Felicity Carus discusses NASA’s recent OMEGA project-aimed at creating fuel from algae-with bioengineer Jonathan Trent in this AOL Energy podcast. Keep reading →
