Energy

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...

What is GE Working on Now?

For generations GE has been at the vanguard of innovation. Now it appears the mega-corp is about to unleash an artificial intelligence on the...

Where Did All of Australia’s Power Go?

During the brutal summers in Australia, temperatures regularly rise to well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This February (southern hemisphere Summer), when temperatures were peaking...

The Minimum Wage Debate Goes off the Rails

Here The Economist reports on the minimum wage debate. Some in the academic community have managed to convince themselves that unlike any other market,...

These Megacities are Changing the World of Energy

A "megacity" is one populated with 10 million or more souls. You can imagine the energy needed to power, feed, and keep that many...

Massive New Wind Power Capacity to Come Online by 2021

The Global Wind Energy Council says by 2021 the world will have 815 gigawatts of wind power generation capacity. Tsvetomira Tsanova reports for Renewables...

This Will Be The Largest Multi-State Wind Investment in America

Xcel Energy is preparing the largest multi-state investment in wind capacity in America. The plan is for eleven wind farms across seven states, with...