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Energy Demand ’
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Readers of this space read last week about the protests over Cairn Energy's production activities in the Arctic. Today's WSJ has a nice piece by James Herron (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870420680457546739021846...
Posted Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 7:52 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply
Gotta love the blog in this morning's FT by Masa Serdarevic entitled "Oil drilling in the Arctic? Blame the bankers" ( http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/25/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-blame-the-bankers/). For those who...
Posted Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 6:49 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Uncategorized
Electricity: the fuel of electric vehicles (EVs). The price of electricity: a key determinant of their economic viability. Policies to support renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions tend to push electricity prices up. Under ...
Posted Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Filed in: Economics, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand
Today is the final day of an innovative conference at Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio, “Moving Ahead 2010: Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century.”
The conference is focused on long-term sol...
Posted Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 8:22 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Demand
This morning, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a panel entitled “Resurrecting the Patchwork Strategy: Top-Down or Bottom-Up Approach to Energy and Climate Policy?” However slowly climate polic...
Posted Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 8:38 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency
Today, in its Energy Source blog, the Financial Times looked at the possibility of a broad switch from coal plants to natural gas power plants. It cites Bernstein Research as predicting that this shift will come despite uncertai...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 8:55 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Supply
Last week this blog pointed out the current oil price conundrum – extremely high spare capacity of upwards of 4 million barrels per day (mmbd) coinciding with high oil prices. Speculation or rebounding demand?
At yesterday’...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 8:22 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
This morning WTI crude traded at above $80 per barrel. A year ago they traded closer to $40 per barrel. The OECD oil demand projection is set to fall by 4.3% (-2.0 mb/d) year-on-year in 2009 and remain flat in 2010. Notably,...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 6:02 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
While oil prices hover around $80 a barrel, in Saudi Arabia you can buy a barrel – for domestic use – for $5.
The subsidy might not seem so unreasonable in the current climate, when Saudi and other OPEC members find themsel...
Posted Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 8:32 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
This morning's FT guest columnist Michael Rothman pens an interesting piece entitled, "Prosperity of the world hinges on oil."http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34d8bf80-c8d2-11de-8f9d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
That's true and tr...
Posted Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply
