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Manage climate risks with this framework – whether you’re a believer or not
Whether one believes in the threats of a changing climate, or not, businesses are sticking their heads in the sand if they don’t at least acknowledge some degree of risk and manage it accordingly.I find it almost impossible to believe how corporate...
Shale gas helping reduce carbon & overall emissions – but by how much?
The results are adding up. It’s hard to ignore how the surging deployment of natural gas for industrial uses and power generation is reducing the growth in U.S. carbon and other harmful emissions and possibly lowering overall emissions.Two recent...
Can any green social networks have staying power?
The web is littered with attempts to build a ‘green’ social network for allied individuals and organizations. Here comes “Ozoshare” from a couple of L.A.-based recycling pros who are taking Ozoshare out of its beta test tomorrow-Tuesday, August 7....
What are the risks of closing 25 megawatts of coal power by 2015?
Is there enough natural gas that is findable and deliverable to plug most of the gap created by the projected closure of 25.5 gigawatts (GW) of U.S. generating capacity between now and year-end 2015?That is an increasingly urgent question facing U.S...
10 reasons to create a carbon tax
The possible revival of serious talks about a U.S. carbon tax should take thought-leaders to the most recent credible analysis in a book finished earlier this year by Shi-Ling Hsu, a professor at the University of British Columbia: The Case...
Could a U.S. carbon tax be on the rebound?
It might only apply to industry emissions and nary a Republican would dare admit to seriously considering it, but talk of a possible carbon tax is making the rounds in political Washington and elsewhere.Think about it. A carbon tax does not lack for...
Outage outrage — Lessons from the 'Derecho' Storm
For the more than 5 million customers who saw their power wiped out by the so-called “derecho” storm that swept across six states in the upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic U.S. June 29, there was little if anything energy and telecommunications...
Federal Court Upholds EPA, Boosts Prospects for Hybrids and Renewables
A federal appeals court has done for natural gas and renewable sources of electricity what no executive branch stimulus package could ever hope to do: raise the bar higher still to justify building another coal-fired power plant in the U.S.The same...
Is the Natural Gas Boom A Boon For Fuel Cell Infrastructure?
Here’s another game-changer in the making brought to you by America’s burgeoning supplies of shale natural gas: alternative fuel vehicles and distributed power generation using fuel cells.Emboldened by low prices and booming supplies of natural gas...
U.S. budget office finds producing more domestic oil won’t minimize pain at pump; using less will
From what relatively little attention a report by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office on energy security received last month, one conclusion jumps out at us here at The Energy Fix. We’ve pasted it in below, along with the most relevant infographic...
Executive Survey: Businesses Expect Some Form Of Carbon Tax
More companies are setting formal energy cost-cutting goals and in the process making energy management a strategic discipline. That is one dimension of Deloitte’s second annual survey designed to help executives make energy-related investment and...
Shale gas ‘golden rules’ from the IEA – will enough of the industry engage? And how?
Lest there be any doubt, the call for understandable rules, regulations and disclosure requirements for the hydraulic fracturing of unconventional natural gas (aka fracking) from shale deposits deep underground is gaining steam not just in the U.S....
