Unrealized Potential in U.S. Renewables
Seeker: Years of efforts to nurture renewable energy have borne fruit dramatically in recent years, with wind and solar farms sprouting worldwide. That growth has largely overshadowed fossil fuels like...
View ArticleReport: U.S. Renewable Costs Fall Below Existing Coal and Nuclear
SNL: The cost of building and operating new renewable energy projects has fallen so far that it can be less expensive than operating existing coal and nuclear generators, according to a recent analysis...
View ArticleLatest Data, Coupled With Armstrong Bankruptcy, Shows Slide in Kentucky Coal...
SNL: Recent data shows that total coal production at Kentucky mines during the third quarter of 2017 totaled 9.6 million tons, posting a 15.6% cutback from the previous quarter’s 11.4 million tons and...
View ArticleThe Economic Case for Solar, Not the Climate-Change Case, Is Driving Its...
InsideClimate News: When Brandon Presley was elected to the Mississippi Public Service Commission in 2007, he said, he couldn’t have found a solar farm “with a SWAT team and a search warrant.” A decade...
View ArticleReport: Wind and Solar Are Reshaping U.S. Electricity Markets
GreenTech Media: Renewables have grown powerful enough to alter the workings of power markets, which will in turn affect the future growth of wind and solar. This unprecedented collision course creates...
View ArticleEditorial: The Trump Administration’s Fake Grid-Resiliency Plan
Scranton (Pa.) Times-Tribune: Energy Secretary Rick Perry claims his plan to further subsidize the failing coal and nuclear power industries is crucial to improving the electrical power grid. The grid...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Texas’ Electricity Market, in Uptake of Renewables, Is Working
Environmental Defense Fund: Coal plant closures are the clearest sign of how Texas’ electricity market is working. Running and maintaining coal plants is expensive (without even considering the hidden...
View ArticleForecast: Coal Share of U.S. Electricity Generation Will Remain Flat
Platts: Coal is likely to make up 30.8% of US electricity generation in 2017 and 30.7% in 2018, both up from 30.4% in 2016, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday. Natural gas is again...
View ArticleU.S. Utility With Millions of Customers: ‘It’s All Wind and Solar’
GreenTech Media: When Charles Patton joined American Electric Power in 2000, around 90 percent of the company’s electricity production came from coal. Since then, AEP’s executive vice president of...
View ArticleIEEFA Update: If Trump Is Looking Out for Consumers, He’ll Reject Solar Tariffs
President Trump is about to confront a policy dilemma that will test his commitment to U.S. job growth. The dilemma in question is manifested in a trade tariff case brought by two troubled U.S....
View ArticleU.S. Wind Generation Up 16% in First Half of 2017
SNL: U.S. wind generation increased 16% year over year during the first half of 2017, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. Nine of the 10 states with the most wind generation saw a...
View ArticleAfrica Poised to Bypass Tradition Electricity-Expansion Model by Embracing...
The Economist: Thanks to a happy combination of innovation and falling costs for renewable energy, Africa may now be able to leapfrog ahead not once but twice, skipping both polluting fossil fuels and,...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Proposed Bailout of U.S. Coal Industry Puts a Spotlight on...
Triple Pundit: What a mess Energy Secretary Rick Perry dumped into the lap of FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Perry has taken a lot of heat for proposing new protections for coal and...
View ArticleIn Coal Phase-Outs, Canada and U.K. Part With U.S.
Globe and Mail: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her British counterpart, Claire Perry, will launch an international alliance to phase out coal-fired electricity at the Bonn climate summit...
View ArticleTrump’s First Year Is a Study in the Limits of Presidential Power Over...
Reuters: A year after Donald Trump was elected president on a promise to revive the ailing U.S. coal industry, the sector’s long-term prospects for growth and hiring remain as bleak as ever. A Reuters...
View ArticleElectricity-Generation ‘Disruption of Unprecedented Scope’ Drives Siemens to...
Wall Street Journal: German electrical engineering giant Siemens AG on Thursday became the latest corporate behemoth to bow before sweeping changes to the way electricity is made the world over, as it...
View ArticleColorado City Contemplates Closing Coal-Fired Plant a Decade Ahead of Schedule
Denver Post: One of the nation’s last coal-fired power plants in the middle of a city may shut down a decade sooner than planned as Colorado Springs leaders contemplate climate action and urban...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Cheapest Electricity in the World? Mexican Solar
Electrik.co: Per a press release from the Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (Cenace) of Mexico, the department received bids for 3TWh of solar electricity, with the lowest bids being 1.77¢/kWh...
View ArticleOperator of One of Montana’s Newest Coal-Fired Plants Says It Is Losing Money...
Billings Gazette: The owner of a coal-fired power plant in Hardin has lost money from the site since 2014 and plans to leave town. Gary Arneson, vice president of operations for Heorot Power, said in a...
View ArticleU.K. Company in 300-Turbine U.S. Wind Project for Northern Indiana
Associated Press: A British-based energy company is working on plans for a wind farm with perhaps more than 300 turbines in parts of three northern Indiana counties. Officials with Renewable Energy...
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