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Renewables ’
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With Earth Day coming up later this week, it is interesting to ponder where we are heading on energy and the environment. So often at odds with each other worldwide, the challenge of achieving affordable, clean, and secure energ...
Posted Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 at 6:30 am | Filed in: Electricity, Renewables
With natural gas hovering around $4 per MMBtu, it's an interesting time to be proposing a feed-in tariff for offshore wind energy. But that's exactly what's happening in Maryland, and this morning's WaPo has an interesting piec...
Posted Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:05 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Renewables
Dina Maron reports in this morning's ClimateWire that: "Ethanol is once again in the hot seat." We say, "good!"
One positive outcome of the current focus on our federal deficit and debt woes is that attention must be paid t...
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Oil Dependence, Policy, Renewables
Some remember the crafty strategy President Clinton and his advisers ran on during the 1996 re-election campaign, when the Gingrich revolution had taken the House in '94 and proceeded down a path of budget cuts and a government sh...
Posted Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Renewables
Everyone would love to think the answer to this question is a very definitive “no,” period. But... there is no doubt that renewable energy in the United States is struggling to build any kind of platform for substantial grow...
Posted Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 8:18 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Renewables
This morning's WSJ reports on rising oil prices and rising food prices, which leads us to question: are our policies serving our interests?
First oil prices, as reported by Jerry Dicolo:
"Crude futures settled at a fres...
Posted Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7:48 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
With the Financial Times’ excellent Energy Source Blog on break for the Christmas period (one of many, we are not singling them out!), here at EPIC we are doing our best to keep you up to date with the energy stories closing out...
Posted Monday, December 27th, 2010 at 8:31 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Policy, Renewables
Today's Energy Daily (www.theenergydaily.com, subscription required) puts an election-year spin on DOE's decision this week (http://www.energy.gov/news/9711.htm) to issue a $350 million conditional loan guarantee "to develop the ...
Posted Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at 6:40 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Renewables
Election alert! China bashing breaks out in the House of Representatives! As E&E reports today (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/09/30/3/) "the U.S. House yesterday voted to slap penalties on China for undervaluing i...
Posted Thursday, September 30th, 2010 at 8:18 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Renewables
Last Thursday, the world’s largest offshore wind farm opened off the south coast of England. Seven miles off the coast in the North Sea, stand 100 turbines built by Vattenfall (a Swedish company). At their peak, they can pro...
Posted Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 10:13 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Renewables
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