March 3, 2021
Via: Renewable Energy NewsCommunications Systems, Inc. (CSI), an IoT intelligent edge products and services company, announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement with privately held Pineapple Energy, an operator and consolidator of residential solar, battery storage, and grid services solutions. Upon […]
October 19, 2020
Via: Greentech MediaU.S. homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy and three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Each of these statistics points […]
July 28, 2020
Via: Power MagazineCoal burn in the power sector has fallen off a cliff. Demand peaked at 1.045 billion tons in 2007. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates consumption in 2020 will be 377 million tons, a drop of 64% in little […]
July 23, 2020
Via: PV ResourcesA round-up of recent news from the US, where Recurrent Energy moves closer to completing two Texas projects and major corporations call on Congress to pass measures to bolster green energy growth. Recurrent Energy secures funding for Texas solar projects […]
July 16, 2020
Via: Energy Manager TodayOpen Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by the city of St. George, Utah for a new SCADA and Distribution Management System (DMS). Based on OSI’s monarch operational technology (OT) platform, this new system will replace St. […]
Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption
May 29, 2020
Via: Energy GlobalThe EIA states that this outcome mainly reflects the continued decline in the amount of coal used for electricity generation over the past decade as well as growth in renewable energy, mostly from wind and solar. Compared with 2018, coal […]
May 18, 2020
Via: ForbesThe COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating global public health and economic effects, and as shelter-in-place orders reduce energy demand across the United States, the pandemic’s associated climate impacts are coming into view. Significant uncertainty around economic activity mean few emissions […]
Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption
March 23, 2020
Via: ForbesThere is little doubt that the world has entered a global economic recession as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Every recession lowers energy use, and this one may be a whopper. The 2008 financial crisis, and the Great Recession […]
Domestic, Energy Consumption, News and Policies, U.S.
February 18, 2020
Via: CleanTechnicaThe US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released its Annual Energy Outlook 2020 report. Unlike Lazard’s annual present to empirically oriented observers of the global energy transformation, the EIA’s reports typically are head-scratchers, and this one is no different. That’s […]
Domestic, Energy Consumption, Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy
January 16, 2020
Via: Power MagazineThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its first forecast for 2021 suggests the share of renewables in the utility-scale U.S. power generation mix will surge to 22%, up from 17% last year, while coal and nuclear’s shares will be […]
Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption
November 12, 2019
Via: ForbesPresidential candidates, state governments, and utilities are promoting “net zero” emissions targets to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and preserve a safe climate future by helping to limit global warming to well below 2°C. But few of them are […]
Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption
October 25, 2019
Via: ForbesAs much as wind and solar are increasing, natural gas is increasing more. And gas will continue to grow faster than all other energy sources in the United States for some time. Over the past fifteen years, coal has decreased […]
Chemical, Conventional Fuels, Domestic, Energy Consumption
July 5, 2019
Via: ForbesThis article is the fourth in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered carbon dioxide […]
June 20, 2019
Via: ForbesThe Trump administration is trying to fulfill its promises to resurrect coal-fired power plants — a move that will likely do little to stem the wave of coal retirements or to prevent natural gas and renewables from advancing. On Wednesday, […]
Chemical, Conventional Fuels, Domestic, Energy Consumption
May 15, 2019
Via: ForbesObviously, there’s a lot more than just three, but let me hit on the triad of pillars. Producing at All-Time Records The U.S. shale revolution that started in 2008 has not just transformed our domestic energy outlook but also energy […]
Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption
April 16, 2019
Via: Renewable Energy NewsFor more than 100 years, electricity has been reliably provided to end users through a centralized generation and transmission model. Large coal, hydro and (later) nuclear generating facilities produced huge amounts of electricity and, through a spider’s web of high […]
Domestic, Energy Consumption, News and Policies, World
April 15, 2019
Via: ForbesA few weeks before the general elections, the Spanish Government approved on Friday 5 a Royal Decree that regulates the new conditions for self-consumption of electricity, which encourage collective self-consumption and establishes a simplified mechanism for compensation of self-produced and […]
March 29, 2019
Via: ForbesAmerica’s energy future hangs in the balance. Robert Mueller’s report cleared President Donald J. Trump of collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential elections, and it appears not to find sufficient evidence to bring charges for possible obstruction of justice. […]
Domestic, Energy Consumption, News and Policies, U.S.
March 4, 2019
Via: ForbesNew research finds the United States’ energy mix is rapidly decarbonizing largely due to economics, as coal-fired generation keeps retiring in favor of cheaper clean energy additions, but U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions still rose 2.5% in 2018. Although that […]
Chemical, Conventional Fuels, Domestic, Energy Consumption
February 11, 2019
Via: CNBC energyEnergy industry leaders issued calls for a greater commitment to developing renewable energy sources during the 2019 World Government Summit in Dubai — and some honed in specifically on the U.S. coal industry as an obstacle to those goals. Siemens […]