On the Blogs: No Place for Partisanship in North Carolina Energy Transition
SoutheastEnergyNews.com: It is the reality of the world in which we live — Republicans and Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly are often divided on complex social and economic issues....
View ArticleU.S. Solar ‘SunShot’ Program Achieves Utility-Scale Price Goal Three Years...
Green Tech Media: The solar industry has met the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative — three years early. The DOE’s National Renewable Energy...
View ArticleIEEFA Europe: Technology Gains Help Drive a Rush From Capital Markets Into...
The U.K.’s latest auction of power purchase agreements for offshore-wind generation confirms an aggressive trend toward cost reductions across the industry and signals the arrival of a mature, bankable...
View ArticleEditorial: EPA’s Phony Promises to a Fading Industry
New York Times: While environmental rules have played some role in the closing of coal-fired plants, the main driver is cheaper and abundant natural gas. Coal’s use in power generation has been...
View ArticleZero-Subsidy Renewables Promise a Reckoning for Old-Order Utility Industry
Bloomberg News: Renewable energy technologies are upending the century-old, centralized business model that that utilities have used to grow. The cost of electricity from offshore wind farms, once one...
View ArticleDeveloper Behind Kansas Coal-Fired Project Says Plant Stands Little Chance...
Lawrence Journal-World: In an August filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Denver-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association described as “remote” the chances that it will...
View ArticleOld-School ‘Mindset and Culture’ Is Sidelining Traditional Utility Companies...
SNL: For a risk-averse industry that has been slow to embrace change, overhauling the DNA of electric utilities stands as a bigger challenge than outdated regulations in the face of a market...
View ArticleTotal SA: Another Oil Major Veers Into Renewables
Financial Tribune: Oil major Total moved forward with its plan to expand in the renewable energy sector on Tuesday with investments in EREN RE and Greenflex. Total said it was buying a 23% stake in...
View ArticleNuclear Industry Report: As Reactor Growth Slows, Solar and Wind Rise
PV Magazine: As renewable energy auctions continued to achieve record low prices at or around $30/MWh in Chile, Mexico, Morocco, the UAE and the U.S., the investment flow in the global energy arena has...
View ArticleIEEFA Webinar: Moody’s Investors Services on Coal, Renewables, Utilities...
IEEFA: One of the core takeaways in research published last week by Moody’s Investor Service: Declining capital costs and improved operating efficiencies will continue to drive strong growth in...
View ArticleFor Investors, a ‘Tipping Point’ Toward Renewables as Wind-Turbine Momentum...
Bloomberg News: The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market. That’s the conclusion of...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: The German Transition
ChinaDialogue.net: If Angela Merkel is to win another term in Germany’s upcoming election on September 24, then winning the western state of North-Rhine/Westphalia (NRW) will be essential. NRW is the...
View ArticleIEEFA Update: FirstEnergy, Out of Step With the Times, Sells Gas and Hydro...
If there’s a standout feature in today’s fast-changing electricity-generation landscape, it’s that coal-fired and nuclear power plants cannot compete with those that run on natural gas or renewable...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: The Rising Market in Electricity Storage
WamstedOnEnergy.com: Electric utility executives already fretting about slow/no growth in their service territories have another item to add to their growing list of worries: the prospect that many of...
View ArticleReport: Battery Storage Emerges as ‘Near-Term’ Piece of NYC’s Evolving...
Utility Dive: A new study commissioned by the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST) concludes the largest city in the United States has a near-term opportunity to clean up...
View ArticleMissouri Utility Announces Plan to Shift From Coal to Renewables
Utility Dive: Ameren Missouri this week filed its 20-year Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with state officials, calling for significant cuts to the utility’s coal-fired generation, increased investment...
View ArticleNew York Clean-Energy Projects—Mostly in Renewables—Attract More Than 200 Bids
Solar Industry Magazine: In response to two requests for proposals (RFPs) for clean energy, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York Power Authority...
View ArticleS&P: Struggling U.S. Nuclear Fleet May Be Gone by 2055
Bloomberg News: The U.S. nuclear power industry could be out of business by the middle of the century. The entire existing fleet of reactors may disappear by 2055 when the last operating license...
View ArticleIEEFA Webinar: Moody’s Investor Services on the Gathering Transition to...
Sept. 27, 2017 (IEEFA) — The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis hosts a webinar tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. ET, register here) with executives from Moody’s Investor...
View ArticleIEEFA Guest Post: China’s Renewable Energy Revolution
Jiang Kejun is senior researcher at the Energy Research Institute of China’s National Development and Reform Commission. Jonathan Woetzel is a McKinsey senior partner, a director of the McKinsey...
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