India’s Power Grid Failure: What Happened?

This is the first part of a two part piece by Raj Prabhu of Mercom Capital addressing the recent blackouts in India. This first part examines technical, regulatory and political dimensions of the problem, and the second part will deal with proposed solutions. The massive grid failure in India last week affected over 600 million [...]

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Chicago: The Clean Energy Windy City

It looks like Chicago’s South Side could be getting an environmental injection, with the potential for huge economic incentives. A new $3 billion gasification project has been proposed for the community. The initiative is called ‘Chicago Clean Energy’. Gasification is a process of converting organic or fossil based materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon [...]

U.S Energy Subsidies: By the Numbers

The latest reminder of the unfairness of life comes from the good folks at GOOD magazine and graphics partner DeepLocal. In a handy chart, they show just how stuffed the fossil fuel industry has gotten on government tax breaks and cash handouts, while the much smaller share of federal backing that goes to renewable energy [...]

Recent India Power Blackout Reinforces Need for Solar

600 million people without power – and those were the ones expecting to have power. I’m not going to join the chorus of critical voices reacting to two of the world’s largest power black-outs this week in India. While surely there is ample blame to go around, it’s not really clear what happened. It could [...]

Renewable Transportation Fuels Gaining Popularity with Large Corporations

Below are excerpts from an interesting article at AOL Energy, providing yet more evidence – on top of stories like this one about record investment in renewable power – that cleantech is increasingly where it’s at from a hard-nosed business and investment perspective. Large corporations are steadily replacing governments and banks in financing renewable energy transport [...]

Facebook ‘Likes’ Green Energy

Facebook has sent a clear message to energy producers: start investing in renewable energy now, and cut your ties with coal and other fossil fuels. What’s more, Facebook will be collaborating with Greenpeace to not only promote renewable energy, but to encourage energy producers to invest more in the development of renewable energy sources. Facebook [...]

The 7 Most Polluted U.S Cities

Asthma has become something of an epidemic in recent decades. In the U.S. alone, asthma rates have increased 60% since the early 1980s. 300 million people worldwide are asthmatic, and 250,000 people die every year from the disease. Studies have shown a link between air pollution and asthma attacks, and living in a highly polluted [...]

The 2012 BP Statistical Review: Coal Wins

The 2012 BP Statistical Review, covering 2011 world energy data, has been released. With global oil production roughly flat for a seventh year, coal once again gained global share of total primary energy consumption. World consumption of coal rose 5.4% in 2011, as oil consumption eked out a very small, 0.7% gain. As for other [...]

China and India Don’t Have Enough Water to Cool Future Coal Plants

China and India are already bumping against their resource limits – they don’t have enough water to cool all the coal-fired power plants they want to build. “They have not introduced a water constraint on their model and assume the water is there. So my view is that they actually will not be able to [...]

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