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London Assembly urges renewed energy goals
07 March 2014 London officials are urging the mayor to lobby the UK government for a renewed commitment to energy efficiency….
People prefer ‘smart grids’ with local energy
26 February 2014 There are lots of different ways to define the “smart grid,” but a new study shows people…
Automation program aims to stabilize UK grid
31 January 2014 A new smart-grid program being launched in the UK aims to help stabilize the power grid as more renewable…
Tiny island in Azores moves to greener, smarter microgrid
13 December 2013 When it comes to renewable energy, too much of a good thing has in the past been a problem. Germany,…
Waste heat from London’s Tube will help heat homes
19 November 2013 London expects to begin heating some homes with waste heat captured from the London Underground and an…
World faces ‘energy trilemma,’ warns International Energy Agency
19 November 2013 Triple-digit prices for crude oil have opened up large new unconventional sources like Canada’s…
Cheap soy catalyst produces hydrogen fuel
24 April 2013 A US research team inspired by the work of twin sisters from a New York high school has identified a…
Five ‘out-there’ energy technologies
21 March 2013 Modern society would grind to a very unpleasant halt without energy … we all know that. Outside…
Solar energy for 1bn people?
13 March 2013 Grand solar energy plans — such as turning the Sahara or the Mojave into giant, clean power plants…
Peak water worries energy experts
06 March 2013 What are the key takeaways from the World Economic Forum’s latest report on energy? One, global…
More British homes to stay warm with heat pumps or solar
07 December 2012 If winter is making temperatures drop to frigid levels where you live, you’re likely grateful for…
At Finnish ‘research hotel,’ the top amenity is efficiency
15 November 2012 Foreign students will get more than just a place to stay while visiting the VTT Technical Research Centre…
Titan ushers in new era of computing for energy, climate research
31 October 2012 A technology first created for computer gaming is helping to launch a “new era of scientific supercomputing.”…
Energy Institute aims to fast-track utility innovation
29 October 2012 A new Smarter Energy Research Institute aims to help energy and utility companies improve their services…
‘CNG in a Box’ aimed at boosting use of natural gas for transport
12 October 2012 With US production booming and low prices, natural gas could be an appealing fuel for a growing number…
Navy dreams of turning seawater into jet fuel
08 October 2012 Refueling a Navy vessel in the middle of the Pacific ocean isn’t like topping off the tank of your…
Predicting wave heights doubles marine energy generation
13 September 2012 What if we could “tune” marine-energy devices so they could grab the maximum amount of power…
New power cell is both a generator and a battery
28 August 2012 Imagine being far from the comforts of home — maybe hiking through a remote wilderness or patrolling…
Sludge power: Wastewater plants could become energy producers
20 August 2012 Wastewater treatment plants could one day not only power themselves but be able to generate excess electricity…
Solar propulsion key to future space travel
14 August 2012 NASA is banking on advanced solar energy technologies to power spacecraft and satellites on future journeys…
Transparent solar cells could mean rooms with an electric view
01 August 2012 A new breakthrough could bring us a bit closer to a future in which building and car windows could generate…
Which countries produce the most coal?
26 July 2012 While the world continues to put up more wind turbines and solar panels, it also continues to use more…
Algae shells could hold secret to better solar cells
19 July 2012 Algae could help us build a cleaner, more sustainable energy future, but not necessarily in the way you…
Big ‘liquid batteries’ could mean a better, cleaner grid
17 July 2012 “Liquid batteries” could provide the answer to the large-scale energy storage challenges…
BP: World sees challenges for oil at ‘reasonable prices’
15 June 2012 What’s the most telling comment in this year’s BP Statistical Review of World Energy? It’s…
Floating, deep-water wind farms inch closer to reality
06 June 2012 The tantalizing prospect of deep-water wind farms, using vast, floating turbines, is coming closer to…
Which countries produce the most geothermal electricity?
04 June 2012 The global geothermal energy market continues to grow significantly in 2012. However, in the US, the…
7 reasons why the ‘golden age of gas’ is a trap
01 June 2012 Let’s get a few potential objections out of the way up front: Yes, natural gas is cleaner than…
Which countries produce the most wind energy?
21 May 2012 The world was producing nearly 238 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy as of the end of 2011, with the fastest…
Colorado welcomes world’s largest concentrating PV power plant
16 May 2012 With the opening of the Alamosa Solar generating facility, Colorado is now home to the world’s…
Oil bonanza? Maybe … A return to $2/gallon gas? Forget it
11 May 2012 For consumers, sentiment about prices generally follows two simple rules: more expensive and hard to…
Which countries use the most nuclear power?
23 April 2012 Nuclear energy is a lot of things: reliable, controversial, fraught with economic and engineering challenges….
Which countries get the most energy from hydropower?
19 April 2012 Which country generates the most electricity from hydropower? It probably comes as no surprise that China…
Quest continues for cheap, easy, ‘drop-in’ biofuels
12 April 2012 What else is crude oil but ancient sunlight in liquid form, a fuel distilled from the remains of tiny…
What if our assumptions about a clean-car future are wrong?
11 April 2012 We tend to assume that moving toward a world of all electric, zero-emissions cars is just a matter of…
Rising oil prices cost importing countries $5.5 billion a day
10 April 2012 Oil prices and the broader economy are linked in complex ways, but there’s no question the connections…
Which countries produce the most biofuels?
09 April 2012 Biofuels — liquid fuels made from everything from algae to corn — haven’t yet come…
Solar, gas or biofuels? Power-generating Tulip says ‘yes’ to all
04 April 2012 Every alternative energy source has its disadvantages, right? Natural gas, while cleaner than coal or…
What parts of the world get the most sunlight?
04 April 2012 What parts of the world have the best potential for solar energy developments? Desert regions like the…
Which countries get the most energy from solar panels?
02 April 2012 Which countries are getting the most energy from solar panels? Germany continues to lead the way globally,…
Countdown to chaos: What happens when gas pumps run dry?
29 March 2012 How dependent are we on a steady supply of fossil fuels? In particular, how much does a fully functioning…
You tell us: What’s most important for our energy future?
28 March 2012 Smart-grid technology and renewables are the keys to a more energy-secure and sustainable future, a lot…
Dual visions of gas future: ‘Golden age’ or ‘well from hell’
28 March 2012 What’s the potential downside to a “Golden Age of Gas,” the International Energy Agency’s…
Where is oil demand growing the fastest?
27 March 2012 Standards of living aren’t the only thing rising in so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India…
Which countries use the most oil?
26 March 2012 Who uses the most oil in the world? In this category, the US does have the right to say, “We’re…
Resource collapse stands to ‘wipe out’ successes of fossil fuel age
23 March 2012 When it comes to making sense of current energy issues, it seems wise to ask, say, a scientist. And one…
How are water and energy linked?
22 March 2012 Most forms of energy we produce also require us to use water, often lots of water. Think of all the water…
What do we need water for? Food, of course … and energy too
22 March 2012 This year’s World Water Day is focused on the most essential way in which we use water: to produce…
Energy from the ocean: Almost ready for ‘prime time’?
20 March 2012 With wind turbines becoming a familiar part of the scenery in many places, and the cost of photovoltaic…
US industry wastes way too much energy, coalition says
19 March 2012 With wasted electricity accounting for nearly 25 percent of their total energy consumption, industries…
What we know about solar energy
14 March 2012 What do we know about solar energy? We know that, despite the popular criticisms leveled against government…
‘Golden age’ of natural gas could bring more earthquakes
13 March 2012 The world might be on the brink of a “golden age of gas,” as the International Energy Agency…
10 facts about the natural gas ‘boom’
08 March 2012 In the US and elsewhere, a lot of news coverage lately has focused on the vast new supplies of natural…
One year on, Fukushima fallout — real and literal — continues
07 March 2012 As we close in on the one-year anniversary of the deadly triple disaster in Japan — earthquake,…
LEGO wind turbines to sprout in North Sea
02 March 2012 LEGO is helping a new crop of wind turbines sprout up in the North Sea off of Germany’s coast….
RIP Oldbury, 44, world’s oldest working nuke plant
01 March 2012 It was a different world for nuclear power stations when Oldbury came onto the scene in the UK in 1967….
Eat your efficiency: Good for us but hard to swallow
28 February 2012 Why is it people continue to do so many things they know aren’t good for them: eating fast food,…
Is there such a thing as ‘energy security’?
24 February 2012 Who could argue with the goal of achieving an “energy-secure” future? It’s a worthy-sounding…
Why are oil prices going up?
24 February 2012 In the good-versus-evil, broad-brush-strokes world of modern politics, it’s always someone’s…
US power blackouts leave record numbers in the dark
22 February 2012 We’ve heard over and over again in recent years that a smarter, more technologically advanced energy…
How much uranium is left?
21 February 2012 As a natural resource on a finite planet, uranium is no more unlimited in supply than oil, coal or natural…
Is it a new dawn — or twilight — for nuclear energy?
20 February 2012 Nuclear energy stands at a strange crossroads. In one direction, the path taken by Germany and Siemens,…
Why $200 oil is the subprime mortgage of energy
17 February 2012 What does an oil price shock have to do with subprime mortgages? Well, consider this: the global economy…
Natural gas boom: A deal ‘getting worse all the time’?
16 February 2012 Could the natural gas “boom” end up being the Darth Vader to Lando Calrissian … as…
How much oil is left? Who cares?
13 February 2012 There’s been a lot of crowing in certain media arenas lately about the “death” of peak…
How NOT to cover energy news
07 February 2012 What’s the best way to understand developments in the energy world? A Daily Ticker story on Yahoo!…
How much coal is left?
07 February 2012 Compared to natural gas, the US is using proportionately less coal than it once did for generating electricity….
How much natural gas is left?
31 January 2012 In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama laid out an all-energy-sources-go…
In clean energy, the ‘growing’ outweighs the ‘pain’
31 January 2012 The renewable energy industry might be suffering growing pains, but the key word there is “growing,”…
Utilities team up for a water-energy two-fer
30 January 2012 Energy and water are linked in many ways, though we don’t always give much thought to the connections….
Challenge of the century: How to keep energy ‘lifeblood’ flowing
30 January 2012 Energy is the “lifeblood” of the global economy, as a report issued at the just-wrapped-up…
World energy outlook: High demand, higher prices
27 January 2012 The US will produce 20 percent more crude oil a decade from now, become a net exporter of liquefied natural…
Is the post-cheap-oil, de-globalized future upon us?
26 January 2012 President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address this week highlighted a lot of issues related…
As North Sea oil dwindles, UK eyes ocean energy ‘gusher’
23 January 2012 North Sea oil production passed its peak more than a decade ago, but the UK is still looking offshore…
What will our energy world look like in 2040?
18 January 2012 What will our energy landscape look like in, say, 30 years? As physicist Neils Bohr is quoted as saying,…
Could we power the world with just clean energy?
16 January 2012 As if the year 2012 doesn’t already portend challenges enough, what with all the Mayan prophecy…
How to lose 55 BILLION gallons of gas? Blame friction
12 January 2012 Friction is a fickle friend for motorists. On the one hand, you wouldn’t want to find yourself…
Consumer electronics: Bigger, smarter and hype-ier than ever
10 January 2012 It’s that time of year again, when the Sugar Plum Fairies have put away their dancing shoes, and…
Can wasteful gas flaring be stopped?
10 January 2012 We mentioned in an earlier post that the size of the global gas-flaring problem is massive – 150 billion…
Watch oil companies waste gas around the world: video
10 January 2012 Financial impact 150 billion cubic meters per year of flared gas is roughly equivalent to … • Gas use…
8 minutes and 19 seconds that could change the world
09 January 2012 The company name Eight19 doesn’t seem to suggest anything … until you hear the reason its…
‘Autos on steroids’ keep US gas thirst super-sized
04 January 2012 Rising levels of obesity and the McMansion trend of the real-estate bubble era already provide evidence…
Saudi Arabia’s domestic thirst for oil threatens world markets
03 January 2012 A looming but hidden energy crisis in Saudi Arabia could wreak havoc both at home and internationally,…
Solar energy goes through the roof in Germany
03 January 2012 Nuke-abandoning Germany is rapidly expanding its already large base of renewable energy, putting it on…
Ohio’s ‘clean’ gas-energy future on shaky ground … literally
02 January 2012 The fast-expanding shale gas industry in the US has hit a literal bump with the closure of several fluid…
Water + solar = savings for cash-strapped California utilities
02 January 2012 Cash-strapped water utilities in California are turning to solar energy to keep operating in the face…
European ‘supergrid’ could have it all: wind, solar and geothermal
29 December 2011 Electricity utility Landsvirkjun plans to build the world’s longest submarine power cable to connect…
What’s the smart-energy outlook for 2012?
28 December 2011 The past year was a busy one for the smart grid, with advanced energy meters and other major grid improvements…
Remembering Brian Robertson of Amonix
23 December 2011 Our thoughts today are with the family, friends and co-workers of Amonix CEO Brian Robertson, who passed…
Could we quit fossil fuels for good?
23 December 2011 Coal, oil and natural gas helped power the Industrial Revolution, and make life as we know it today possible….
Five key clean-energy materials face ‘critical’ supply risk
22 December 2011 With budget cuts, rampant climate-change denial and a Republican party eager to turn back the clock on…
Could ‘parasite power’ change the world?
21 December 2011 By 2016, many of the little energy aggravations that inconvenience you today — a run-down cellphone…
Will oil prices hit record highs – or crash – in 2012?
21 December 2011 Will 2012 be the year we see oil prices rise to crushing record highs? Or will the cost of crude collapse…
Sub-atomic ‘avalanche’ could pave way for super solar cells
20 December 2011 Researchers at Kyoto University have discovered a way to unleash an “avalanche” of excitons…
Yes, energy and the economy are linked … just not how you think
15 December 2011 The inextricable link between energy and economic growth has been painfully clear to many people since…
For nuke-nixing Germany and Siemens, it’s full-steam ahead with wind
15 December 2011 Nuke-rejecting Germany plans to expand its renewable energy base even further with a new offshore power…
Low-carbon future? Ha … Coal demand to grow by 600,000 tons A DAY
13 December 2011 While it’s common knowledge to anyone who follows energy news that the world’s appetite for…
New ventures to put China’s wind energy on steroids
12 December 2011 After several years of courtship, Siemens and Shanghai Electric are tying the knot and looking to raise…
Bundle up this winter: Cheap energy is gone for good
12 December 2011 Late December brings with it more than Christmas these days: as winter looms in the northern hemisphere,…
The scariest energy graph you’ll see today
06 December 2011 We have all the technology we need today to live more efficiently and sustainably … or so we’ve…
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