From the Houston Chronicle: A majority of Texans would be willing to pay $4 more on their monthly electric bills to create a network of power lines from wind farms, according to a recent poll. The survey, commissioned by a group of wind generation companies, is being released in advance of state utility regulators’ debate …
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Michael Giberson My posting will be light over the next two weeks or so as I switch jobs and move a little more than half-way across the country. Beginning with the fall semester I will be teaching in the energy commerce program at Texas Tech University‘s Rawls College of Business.
Michael Giberson In the booming business of building wind power systems, manufacturers have found a number of critical components to be hard to find. From Renewable Energy World magazine: In recent years component shortages have occurred in a number of key supply chain areas including single main bearings, gearboxes, generators, main shafts, control cabinets, and …
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Michael Giberson An article on the barriers to combined heat and power plants from Forbes: Utilities that want to can often hit projects with repeated delays. [Neal Elliott of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy] describes the sort of scenarios he’s seen. “Require an interconnection study, takes 60 days, present the study, 60 days …
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Michael Giberson T. Boone Pickens, the oil and gas billionaire now making a splash in wind energy, has released the “Pickens Plan” for reforming the U.S. energy landscape. In brief, use a lot more wind power to displace natural gas used in electric power generation, and use the natural gas to displace gasoline in transportation …
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Michael Giberson At Energy Outlook, Geoff Styles writes: Oil prices set another record last week, closing above $145 per barrel for the first time, on the strength of heightened fears of an attack by Israel or the US on Iran, combined with a dip in US commercial oil inventories below 300 million barrels, their lowest …
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Michael Giberson Renewable energy mandates are often popular state polices. According to the US Department of Energy, 24 states and the District of Columbia have “renewable portfolio standards” (RPS) which requires that a minimum percentage of power consumed in the state come from renewable resources. Four other states have non-binding goals. (Wikipedia on RPS for …
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Lynne Kiesling Those Prius engineers at Toyota keep working and working … a third-generation version of the hybrid vehicle is due on the market next year, and they are already working on rooftop solar panels to generate the power to run the car’s air conditioning. See also the the picture available at Engadget. I’d like …
Michael Giberson The Global Subsidies Institute takes note of a report on the consumer (and taxpayer) costs of ethanol-blended fuel in Missouri: A report from a Missouri-based research organization debunks the claim that Missourians are saving money through a state law requiring that retail gasoline contain a minimum of 10% ethanol. The report is in …
Michael Giberson On July 4, The Guardian newspaper reported: Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% – far more than previously estimated – according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by …
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