Making Sense of Levelized Costs
December 22, 2011Levelized costs are a convenient way to compare the costs of various forms of future electrical generation. Similar to a…
Exxon predicts U.S. oil imports have peaked
December 14, 2011Exxon Mobil predicts that U.S. oil imports have peaked due to increased domestic oil supplies and a drop in oil…
Growing Disenchantment with Renewable Energy
November 30, 2011Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance forecast is predicting that global clean energy investments may double to $395 billion by 2020, led…
Rebutting Ms. Bode’s Wind Comments
November 14, 2011In last Sunday’s New York Times Dialogue on Incentives on Energy, Denise Bode, Chief Executive of the American Wind Energy…
Beacon Power: Another DOE Loan Bites the Dust
November 4, 2011When Solyndra went belly-up, the proponents of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program warned us not to let one…
Impacts of a Clean Energy Standard
November 2, 2011The Energy Information Administration (EIA) was requested by Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Ralph Hall to analyze a “clean…
