‘Halcyon Days’ of Coal Trading Are Past
Bloomberg News: The halcyon days of coal trading seem to be over as buying and selling of the world’s most widely used power-plant fuel plunged last year. For years the coal market defied a global...
View ArticleChile Announces Coal Phase-Out
Climate Home: Chile will phase out coal power generation, president Michelle Bachelet declared on Wednesday. The energy ministry has secured an agreement with its major utilities not to build any more...
View ArticleIn Colstrip, Montana, a Sense of the Inevitable
KTVH (Helena): The future of the nation’s coal industry was in the spotlight this week during the State of the Union speech, but here in Montana, things seemed much more dim. President Trump declared...
View ArticleIEEFA Update: In U.S. Utility NextEra, a Template for Electricity-Generation...
The best-performing electricity utility in the U.S. is also the world’s biggest installer of renewables. NextEra Energy Inc., a major national electricity provider with 47 gigawatts (GW) of capacity...
View ArticleAmazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Netflix Stand to Undermine Utilities’...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Consumer-facing tech giants, namely Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc., known together as the “FAANG” firms,...
View ArticleChinese Battery Factory Aims to Reign in New-Car Market, Including Over...
Automotive News: The next global powerhouse in the auto industry comes from a small city in a tea-growing province of southeast China, where an unheralded maker of electric-vehicle batteries is...
View ArticleRenewable-Energy Leader in India Can Double Its Wind and Solar by 2027
Indo-Asian News Service: Tamil Nadu should double its wind energy capacity to 15 gigawatts (GW) and increase its solar capacity six-fold to 13.8 GW by 2026-27 whilst simultaneously delivering cheaper...
View ArticleLittle Hope Seen for New Coal Generation in the U.S.
S&P Global Market Intelligence: With Donald Trump in the White House and a Republican majority in Congress, the political environment on the surface would appear to be ripe for a new fleet of...
View ArticleA Reality Gap at the U.S. Energy Information Administration
S&P Global Market Intelligence: According to the U.S. government’s annual energy forecast, domestic electricity use is expected to grow steadily through 2050 across all sectors after decades of...
View ArticleIEEFA India: Tamil Nadu, Population 72 Million, Emerges as a National...
Feb. 7, 2018 (IEEFA) — New modelling by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) finds the Indian state of Tamil Nadu capable of doubling its wind energy capacity by 2027 and...
View ArticleSurvey: In the Heartland, Political Support for Renewables
North American Wind Power: The Center for Rural Affairs has released “Powering Iowa: Rural Perspectives on Iowa’s Renewable Energy Transformation,” a report examining renewable energy development....
View ArticleMidwestern Mega-Utility, Acknowledging ‘Era of Transformation,’ Announces...
Columbus Dispatch: American Electric Power is announcing targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from its power plants, with an ultimate goal of cutting those levels, by 2050, to 80 percent less...
View ArticleEuropean Renewables Company Siemens Gamesa Expands Its Pipeline Into India
PV Magazine: Spanish-German renewable energy developer Siemens Gamesa has confirmed this week that it will add 160 MW of solar PV capacity to its growing Indian pipeline. The firm, which has already...
View ArticleConnecticut Aims for 40% Renewable Energy by 2030
Utility Dive: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has finalized the state’s 2018 Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES), and recommended doubling the Renewable...
View ArticleChina Leads Global Race for Battery-Critical Cobalt
Wall Street Journal: There is a world-wide race to lock up the supply chain for cobalt, which will likely be in even greater demand as electric-car production rises. So far, China is way ahead. Chinese...
View ArticleU.S. Deal to Support Coal-Fired Generation Expansion in Vietnam Appears Dead
New York Times: A Vietnamese company is no longer seeking American financial support to build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, bringing to an abrupt end a closely watched test of whether Washington...
View ArticleMore Openings for Renewables Seen in Indonesian Power Markets
Reuters: The developer of Indonesia’s first commercial-scale wind farm says conditions for renewable energy investors are better now than ever before, but more work is still needed for the country to...
View ArticleUtah Lawmaker Wants to Sue California for Cutting Back on Coal-Fired Power
Salt Lake Tribune: When Utah’s Intermountain Power Plant sells its electricity to Southern California, utilities there must pay an extra $15 per megawatt hour. That’s a special penalty on coal, a fuel...
View ArticleU.S. Solar Growth Adds to Momentum in Tilting Markets
Bloomberg News: Natural gas is getting edged out of power markets across the U.S. by two energy sources that, together, are proving to be an unbeatable mix: solar and batteries. In just the latest...
View ArticleUtility-Scale Batteries Encroaching on Gas-Power Markets in U.S.
Wall Street Journal: Giant batteries charged by renewable energy are beginning to nibble away at a large market: The power plants that generate extra surges of electricity during peak hours. Known as...
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