As Coal Slips in Texas, Wind Picks Up
Quartz: Although the White House is leading a campaign to burn more coal, states and utilities are largely ignoring the call. In April, West Virginia rebuffed efforts by Democratic governor Jim Justice...
View Article‘Plug and Play’ Solar Finds Markets in Nebraska and Ohio
Midwest Energy News: Utility customers in Ohio and Nebraska are among those taking advantage of a new and simpler technique for connecting solar arrays and other renewable energy systems to the grid....
View ArticleIEA Report: Renewables Will Supplant Coal in Alleviating Global Electricity...
Carbon Brief: Around the world, more than a billion people still lack access to electricity. This number is shrinking, down by one third since 2000, despite rising population levels, according to an...
View ArticleAgency Sees Solar and Battery-Storage Costs Falling 60% Over Next Decade
Reuters: Solar power costs will fall by another 60 percent over the next decade giving an already booming market another boost, the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) said on...
View ArticleIndustry and Consumer Groups Line Up Against U.S. Coal Bailout
Wall Street Journal: A Trump administration proposal aimed at shoring up coal-fired and nuclear power plants across the nation has generated opposition from an array of energy and consumer interests,...
View ArticleU.S. Bailout Proposal Gets Coal Lobby’s Support, and a Thumbs Down From...
Washington Examiner: The coal and nuclear industries made a big, last-minute sell on why the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should approve a proposed rule from Energy Secretary Rick Perry that...
View ArticleCredit Analysts Cite Climate Risk
The Bond Buyer: As hurricane-stricken states on the Gulf of Mexico face prolonged recovery from this year’s massive storm damage and California douses the remnants of lethal wildfires, affected...
View ArticleIn Investor Presentations, Utilities Are Adopting the Language of Transition
Bloomberg New Energy Finance: Utility companies, it seems, are just not that into coal anymore — or they don’t see it as a source of growth. Using the Bloomberg Document Search, I combed through...
View ArticleU.S. Coal Industry Bailout Plan Would Cost Customers as Much as $288 Billion
SNL: The U.S. Department of Energy’s proposal to prop up financially struggling coal and nuclear plants by ensuring they can recover all their costs would carry a big price tag for consumers, according...
View ArticleFunds in U.S. and China in $3.7 Billion Renewable Energy Deal, Biggest to Date
Wall Street Journal: A group including a U.S.-based private-equity firm and China’s sovereign-wealth fund has agreed to acquire Equis Energy, which oversees one of Asia’s largest collections of...
View ArticleIEEFA Asia: In the Time of Solar, Ratepayers and Investors Alike Should Be...
The Philippines, like many of its ASEAN neighbors, is at a crossroads in a potential energy transition that—if managed properly—could lead to more cost-effective electricity for millions of consumers...
View ArticleNatural Gas Industry Joins Fray Against Coal Bailout
SNL: The natural gas industry joined with other energy market participants to defend the sector’s reliability and decry the U.S. Department of Energy’s grid resilience initiative as “uneconomic” in...
View ArticleLas Vegas (300 Days of Sunshine Per Year) Advances the National Security Case...
The Christian Science Monitor: Though gambling and hospitality still make up the heart of Nevadan industry, the past decade has also seen the technological and clean energy revolutions take root in the...
View ArticleBullish on U.S. Wind
Motley Fool: As companies like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), and renewable energy yieldcos look to expand their generation, we’ll see even more wind power plants built. With the...
View ArticleIEEFA Asia: China’s Utility Sector Is in Change Mode
As regressive policies are being pursued noisily in the U.S. and Australia in hopes of salvaging the fading coal-fired power sector, news has broken more quietly around China’s persistence in moving...
View ArticleIndia and China ‘Now Setting the Pace for Solar Development’
Financial Times: For many in the Indian energy industry, the Bhadla auction confirmed that the country is undergoing a generational shift from coal-fueled power to solar and wind. This shift is being...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: ‘Teenage’ Coal Plants Are Being Retired Too
Coal Wire: Whether in Italy, the US or the Netherlands, the trend to the retirement of teenaged coal plants — or even younger in the case of one of Luminant’s Sandow units — is something new. In the...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Canada, U.K., and Netherlands in Pact to Phase Out Coal
International Institute for Sustainable Development: One indication that the global transition towards low-carbon forms of energy is picking up speed is the decline in demand for coal, as renewable...
View ArticleArmstrong Energy, Miner of Coal in Ohio and Kentucky, Files for Bankruptcy
CNN Money: More evidence of coal’s challenges came on Tuesday as Armstrong Energy, a western Kentucky coal company, filed for bankruptcy protection. Armstrong Energy is the first coal company to...
View ArticleReport: Cost Trends Favor Wind and Solar
Axios: Falling costs for developing wind and solar power plants are giving those technologies a market edge over coal and nuclear power even without tax subsidies, according to a new analysis on the...
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