Energy
Chesapeake Energy: Watch The Downside
Chesapeake Energy remains a highly volatile stock, is suited mainly for traders.<p>Analyst downgrades and S&P credit downgrade last month underscore …
Floating solar is a win-win energy solution for drought-stricken US lakes
The Colorado River’s two great reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are in retreat. Multi-year droughts and chronic overuse have taken their toll, to be sure, but vast quantities of water are also lost to evaporation. What if the same scorching sun that causes so much of this water loss were …
Green LivingHere Is Why Google Is Buying a Crazy Amount of Clean Energy
It’s as much as about two big nuclear power plants.<p>Google just closed on a deal to buy a significant amount of clean energy from two new wind farms that will be built in Norway and Sweden to help power its data centers in Europe.<p>With this latest deal, Google now has purchased over 2.5 gigawatts of …
Clean EnergyHow Utilities Are Fighting Back on Solar Power
In February the leasing giant SolarCity closed its operations in Nevada, laying off more than 550 employees there. A couple of months earlier, the …
ElectricityWatch Out, Coal! Dubai Announces Plans For World's Lowest Cost Solar Plant
King Coal is taking a lot of blows recently. But at least it could usually count on being the cheapest alternative. Now even that’s called into question.<br>The latest battering to coal’s standing came when Dubai announced June 27 that it would build a massive 800-megawatt solar plant that will produce …
Renewable EnergyNigeria signs $80 bln of oil, gas infrastructure deals with China
Nigeria has signed oil and gas infrastructure agreements worth $80 billion with Chinese companies, the West African country's state oil company said on Thursday.<p>Nigeria, an OPEC member which was until recently Africa's biggest oil producer, relies on crude sales for around 70 percent of national …
AsiaThai start-up tries to outdo Elon Musk in green energy storage
Piriyathep Kanchanadul flicks a switch to set a bank of light ablaze, fed by electrolyte that shoots round a tentacular array of tubes. He shuts the …
Elon MuskThe Real Cost of Leasing vs. Buying Solar Panels
Buying solar panels requires an investment and more decision-making than leasing, but over the long term the benefits of owning your system are hard …
Solar panelsApple Campus 2 drone flyover captures progress on solar panels & fuel cells, underground theater, and R&D buildings
One month after his last drone flyover of Apple’s under construction Apple Campus 2 site, Matthew Roberts has sent over an update for July that gives an up-close look at progress in recent weeks.<p>In the video, we see Apple is making rapid progress towards reaching its goal of completing construction …
Renewable EnergyGet Smart Fast: Paul Ryan's Energy Plan In 200 Words
Speaker Paul Ryan has unveiled six white papers that lay out a policy agenda for House Republicans heading into the 2016 elections. One of those white papers focuses on economic growth and includes a substantial section on energy policy. Here is a summary of the House Republican energy proposal:<p>The …
Paul RyanU.S. hardens royalty rules on fossil fuel production
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday completed new rules for how energy companies value oil, gas and coal extracted from federal land in a reform meant to protect taxpayers' stake in those sales.<p>The Interior Department updated the valuation rules that were first enacted in …
CoalCalifornia attorney general subpoenas oil refiners in gas-price probe
State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris has issued subpoenas to oil refiners as part of an investigation into unusually high gasoline prices in California during the last year.<p>California drivers paid pump prices that were as much as $1.50 higher than the rest of the nation since last summer.<p>Gordon Schremp, …
Attorney GeneralThis company is converting the hot water that goes down the drain into energy
Think about the last time you washed your hands, did the dishes, or took a shower. How much hot water went down the drain?<p>The US Department of Energy estimates that 350 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted every year because of hot water we don't use. For context, an average American home …
Amid Airy Promises, North American Summit Yields Some Sensible Plans On Energy
The three North American leaders have met and began by addressing, among other things, energy policy and a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from that sector (among others). The headline takeaway was a call to increase emission-less energy production from 37% to 50% by 2025, which is …
North AmericaUsed coffee grounds turned into a renewable energy source
A UK-based company recycles excess beans to create advanced biofuels<p>UK-based clean tech company bio-bean has industrialized the process of turning …
Green LivingSolar Energy to Power India of the Future
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – , from installing solar panels on rooftops to setting up massive solar parks. This will catapult India to the forefront …
WorldWhy Exxon Mobil is now lobbying for a carbon tax
The world's largest publicly owned company is lobbying other American energy firms to get behind it.
Carbon75 Percent of American Drivers Trading in a Hybrid or EV Are Opting for All-Gas Models
<b>New York Times: Falling Gas Prices Are Driving Consumers Back to Bigger Vehicles</b><p>The single most effective action that most Americans can take to help …
Hybrid VehiclesOne Step Closer To The Hydrogen Economy Dream
<b>Published on</b> June 30th, 2016 | <i>by Tina Casey</i><p>0<p>June 30th, 2016 by <b>Tina Casey</b><p>The term hydrogen economy was coined back in 1970 by the noted and …
Clean technologyHome Energy Performance is Key to Avoiding the Next Mortgage Crisis
Every day, thousands of Americans make the biggest purchase they’ll make in a lifetime—their home—without knowing the true cost. In spite of …
MortgagesBeyond Double Pane: New Energy Efficient Glass Technology
Image Source<p>Keeping your home or business building in the ideal temperature range year-round takes a lot of energy. Maintaining a recommended 78°F in summer (26° Celsius) and<p>68° in winter (20° Celsius) requires either an enormous amount of heating and cooling or outstanding insulation. Ideally, a …
Energy EfficiencyAt midday: TSX fluctuates as oil, weak growth weigh
Reuters<p>Canada’s main stock index fluctuated on Thursday as a fall in oil prices weighed on energy stocks and financials retreated on data pointing to weak domestic economic growth.<p>The index, whose heavy concentration of gold miners helped limit the selloff in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the …
EconomicsUK lacks policies to meet more than half its carbon emissions cuts – report
The UK has no policies in place to meet more than half of the carbon emission cuts required by law by 2030, the government’s official advisers warned on Thursday, the same day ministers committed to the target.<p>The advisers also warned that the UK’s Brexit vote had thrown some EU-linked climate …
CarbonVestas Gets 22 Turbine Order as Google Upgrades Renewable Capacity
Shutterstock photo<p>By Dominic Chopping<p>Denmark'sVestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS.KO) said Thursday it has received an order for 22 turbines to be installed …
GooglePublic Lands Development Rigged in Favor of Oil and Gas
This directly conflicts with the BLM’s own guiding principle that some lands, especially those with low potential energy resources, be managed for …
EDP says Brexit could delay go-ahead for Scottish wind energy project
Britain's decision to leave the European union could delay the Moray Firth offshore wind energy project in Scotland owned by the renewables unit of Portugal's Energias de Portugal-EDP, the company's chief executive said on Thursday.<p>Antonio Mexia told reporters that Britain's Brexit vote last week …
European NewsHow to make Africa meet sustainable development ends: A special glance at cross-border energy solutions
<i>Cliquez ici pour lire la version complète de ce blog en français »</i> 2016: The turning pointPolicymakers and development practitioners now face a new …
EnvironmentBrexit spells end to EU leadership in climate diplomacy
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's exit dashes the European Union's leadership ambitions on efforts to slow climate change, leaving the bloc on the sidelines while others endorse the global pact it championed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.<p>Last week, EU environment ministers jointly called for …
EnvironmentWill China Bring Nuclear Power to Moldova?
China appears willing to help Moldova become a nuclear power. But for now officials in Chi?in?u seem hesitant to go all-in on atomic energy.<p>Chinese …
AsiaOil system developed for greener, more fuel efficient mild hybrid vehicles
The concept for a novel oil system has been developed by a researcher at The University of Nottingham as part of a bid to advance greener, more …
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