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Is the Photovoltaic Price Trend Sustainable?
It has been widely assumed among pundits and policy makers that the continued expansion of solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will drive down PV costs until the electricity they produce is competitive with conventional power sources...
Iran Oil Price Risk Returns
Between the Libyan revolution and the shaky US and European economies, oil markets hadn't been paying much attention to Iran's nuclear program until last week's release of a new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA.) For the...
Breaking Our Oil Addiction Takes More Than Killing Keystone XL
In an article in today's Washington Post an official of the National Wildlife Federation was quoted linking rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline with breaking our addiction to oil. Even with the administration having delayed its decision on the...
Will Energy Determine the 2012 Election?
A year from today Americans will know who will serve as President from 2013 to 2017. Even though $4 gasoline was still fresh in the minds of voters, energy played only a minor role in the outcome of the 2008 election, overshadowed by two wars and a...
Do LNG Exports Threaten the Shift to Gas?
Last week US liquefied natural gas provider Cheniere signed a long-term agreement to sell BG (formerly British Gas) LNG exported from the Gulf Coast. The governor of Alaska was also recently quoted suggesting that his state's surplus natural gas...
How Many More Solyndras?
Another firm that received a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy has just filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power had drawn down $39.1 million of the $43 million authorized by the DOE for the construction of its 20 MW energy storage facility in...
Repaying Greece's Debts with Tomorrow's Sunlight
Some days the economic news seems to emanate from the Twilight Zone. When the official summit document from Wednesday's meeting of EU leaders seeking to avert another financial crisis includes a reference to repaying a portion of Greek debt with the...
Key Renewable Energy Subsidies About to Expire
The US renewable energy industry faces a greatly altered incentive environment next year, as eligibility for two of its largest current subsidies comes to an end at the close of 2011. The corn ethanol sector will likely see the complete...
US Energy Poll Reveals Contradictions
Wednesday, I received a press release announcing the results of a new poll on US consumer attitudes towards energy conducted by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin.I wasn't surprised to see that a plurality of the...
Pipelines in the Spotlight
There aren't many parts of the energy value chain that normally receive less attention than pipelines. Energy production, whether from oil and gas fields, nuclear power plants, or rapidly growing renewable sources usually garners far more attention...
More Lessons from Solyndra
I'll bet that those working and investing in renewable energy are even more tired of the steady stream of headlines from the unraveling Solyndra mess than the rest of us are. Today's crop includes more evidence of the political linkages to the...
Is Mount Everest the Best Place for Solar Power?
A new study on the impact of regional temperature differences on solar generating potential arrives at some surprising conclusions about the world's best locations for solar power. While the US desert southwest still ranks high, as you'd expect, it...
