In general terms, we’ve known for a while that the current condition of the grid would be a limiting factor in the growth of renewable energy. But now, as utilities are introducing significant new programs to meet state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), the reality of grid limitation
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IHS CERA: World Oil Demand Set to Resume Growth; Return to Pre-recession Levels by 2012
Overall, emerging markets will drive the recovery of oil demand. IHS CERA expects oil demand to increase from 83.8 mbd in 2009 to 89.1 mbd in 2014. 83 percent (4.4 mbd) will come from non-OECD countries. China alone is expected to account for 1.6 mbd of cumulative growth. Just 900,000 bpd of growth is expected to come from OECD countries
Energy: China turns tables on U.S.
Our domestic markets are exactly the opposite of the Chinese. Americans are strapped with debt, paralyzed and frozen in place. We had to borrow more money in order to keep our entire economic system from collapsing.
Washington Capitulates – Peak Oil Is Real
Projected production, as you can see, is suddenly shriveling up. From 107.5 million b/d of oil projected for 2030 in 2007, to 102.9 million b/d in 2008, to this year’s meager expectation for 93.1 million. That’s a drop of 13.4% in only two years, and posits production growth of only 11.6 million b/d (14.2%) from 2006 levels.
If that isn’t an admission that the era of Peak Oil is upon us, what is?
Is Peak Oil Real? A List of Countries Past Peak
Only 14 of the 54 oil producing nations in the world are still increasing their oil production. The era of cheap oil is definitively over, as shown below.
OPEC Achieves Cuts in Output, Halting Price Slide
After months of gradually closing the oil spigot, members of the OPEC cartel have managed to stop the slide in oil prices — at least for now.
Can Nuclear Power Compete?
On an August afternoon in Washington, D.C., typically miserable for its heat, humidity and stillness, reporters gathered at a downtown hotel not known for its air-conditioning. Stuffed inside a windowless conference room that was being heated still further by the television people’s lights, we waited for Michael J. Wallace, who had been trying, in fits and starts, to unveil nuclear power’s second act.
Harvesting Electricity From Moving Vehicles
13 Dec 2008 at 12:17
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Parasitic energy harvesting” might sound like it is part of a Sci-Fi plot where alien beings feed off of the energy emanating from human bodies, but it is actually a means of reclaiming wasted energy.
IEA Oil Report: “Time is Running Out”
After some six months of leaks and previews, the long-awaited World Energy Outlook report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) is finally out. And in many ways, it is the bombshell we expected.
