Energy

Much Hyped Offshore Wind Project in MA Abandoned

Environmentalists and politicians have been hyping up offshore wind projects in the waters around Massachusetts for years, but now those plans have been abandoned....

Wildfires Erase California’s Draconian Climate Change Efforts

Over the past twenty years, California has implemented numerous draconian restrictions to reduce its theoretical climate change footprint, but carbon emissions from recent wildfires...

Are EVs as Carbon Friendly as we are Told?

Writing in the WSJ, Holman Jenkins makes the case that electric vehicles may not be the climate savior that the green crowd would have...

Does Solar + Storage = a Clean Power Future?

In Nevada, plans are being made for a 475-megawatt solar array with a 540 megawatt-hour battery system. The plan to build the massive installation...

Volkswagen is About to Get its Own Gigafactory

When Tesla began building its gigafactory, the company's fans in the analyst world fawned over it. Now though, it is becoming clear that not...

Are Green Energy Backers Out Over Their Skis?

According to Mark Mills at The Wall Street Journal, it's likely that the world will be using hydrocarbons for quite some time. He writes: The...

Green Dreams and Gas Nightmares in the Northeast

There's an ocean of natural gas in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation, but you wouldn't know it based on the paltry natural gas infrastructure running...

Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport, Now What?

Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport: 80% back on the Grid Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Day 5...

Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport

Update: Read more about Day 4 of Newport's gas outage here.  You may have read that Newport, RI lost natural gas service Monday, impacting 7,000...

Is Solar and Storage Competitive with Gas Peakers in Minnesota?

A recent report published by the Energy Transition Lab at the University of Minnesota's Institute of the Environment suggests that a mix of renewable...