Tag Archives: energy
The Two Faces of China’s Energy Governance
In my attempts to catch up on lots of literature published over the past year that I missed, I finally read the 2012 paper China’s Long Road to a Low-Carbon Economy: An Institutional Analysis by Philip Andrews-Speed, one of the first and foremost international commentators on China’s energy economy. Naturally, its stuff worth reading (otherwise [...]
IEA: Coal Will Dominate The Next Decade
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that coal will be the leading energy source in the world by 2022 due to the demand from India and China. “Coal’s share of the global energy mix continues to grow each year,” says IEA executive director Maria Van der Hoeven to BBC News. “If no [...]
Energy Growth and Consumption: 2013 and Beyond
Energy growth in 2013 will be tightly coupled to economic growth and that will remain true for at least a decade. Supply fades as a factor while getting the correct fuel portfolio balance will be a key to quality of life worldwide for the foreseeable future. We have once again returned to a world where [...]
U.S Energy Independence: Is 2013 The Year?
Here’s a little energy investment 101: when oil moves up, so does the dollar. Energy bulls bet on increasing momentum, whereas gold bugs amass hard assets for the day the dollar collapses. Well, that’s the way it used to be; global energy markets have become so schizophrenic that this once self-evident correlation is about as [...]
In Focus: The San Francisco Energy Cooperative
Evan Wynns founded the San Francisco Energy Cooperative in 2011 with the 75% in mind. He began with the question of why we don’t have more green energy in the United States: “It’s frustrating because we have this technology which can take off a lot of the load of consuming fossil fuels, and we have [...]
Energy Investors Look to Industry Trends
The US is by far the world’s greatest user of energy per capita in the world. Each American uses about 87,000 kilowatts in 2008 – that is twice as much as the European Union (EU), the next closest consumer! Understanding energy trends in this country is extremely important for investors who want to understand how [...]
The Data Monoculture
For almost a year I have been trying to alert readers to the strong possibility that organizations charged with estimating future energy usage are consistently underestimating totals. I think the source of their error lies in miscalculating the take-up of energy in the developing world, compounded by their ignoring current latent demand and, perhaps most [...]
The European Supergrid: Game Changer for Renewables?
Europe’s energy infrastructure urgently needs updating. In this interview published in the latest edition of EWEA’s Wind Directions magazine, Ana Aguado, CEO of Friends of the Supergrid, explores how this can be done. What is the supergrid and why do we need it? We define the supergrid as “a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration [...]
DOE Publishes Early Release of 2013 U.S. Energy Outlook
The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration has published their Early Release of the U.S. Annual Energy Outlook for 2013. Some key points: Domestic production of crude oil is increasing and is expected to continue to increase, reaching 7.5 million barrels per day by 2019 Our consumption of natural gas is also expected to increase, [...]