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September, 2009
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On Monday we noted Gov. Schwarzenegger was reportedly considering allowing power generated at nuclear plants to help meet the renewable power requirements that he established by executive order. We noted that this could have b...
Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Supply
Today's WaPo -- and its strong reporter Steve Mufson -- reports on the bizarre "controversy" over certain Obama Administration analyses of the costs of climate change policies (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/...
Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 3:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Environment, Legislation
In a further development to California’s push for even more aggressive renewable energy proposals, Governor Schwarzenegger said yesterday that he would veto legislation passed last week that would limit the amount of renewable p...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 7:46 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Renewables
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce this week a requirement that 33 percent of the power sold by California utilities be renewable energy. (California law already requires that 20 percent of power b...
Posted Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Environment
The Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure held a hearing yesterday on the Oil and Gas Tax Provisions of the president’s FY2010 Budget Proposal. The panel consisted of si...
Posted Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm | Filed in: Legislation
This morning's Energy & Environment Daily (http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/09/10/2/) reports on a looming show-down in the House Natural Resources Committee. Yesterday, the Committee's Energy and Mineral Resources Subcomm...
Posted Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 7:01 am | Filed in: Legislation
Less than one week since BP announced the discovery of a ‘giant' oilfield in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, BG Group has announced that it could ultimately extract between 1.1 and 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (at least double w...
Posted Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 10:55 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil Dependence
The name suggests a state-owned enterprise from the days of the Little Red Books: China Aviation Industry Harbin Hafei Automobile Industry Group Co., Ltd.
That would be wrong.
A few days ago the company (Hafei for short) pre...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification
The role for natural gas is sure to be an issue in the fall debate over energy policy, as discussed in a recent New York Times article. We thought it would be worth a few minutes to figure out how efficient it is to use natura...
Posted Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 5:12 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, Gas Prices, Natural Gas
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