In Ontario most consumers have smart meters and are paying for electric power based on time-of-use pricing. Smart meters track your power usage by the hour. In Ontario time-of-use pricing is based on different rates […]
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual World Energy Outlook for 2011 (WEO-2011). 2000-2010 In the past decade 2000 to 2010, almost half of the world’s demand for energy has been provided by coal, […]
India has announced plans to build an Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) designed to use thorium as fuel. India has very little uranium which was the initial motivation to develop a thorium reactor. The reactor […]
I blogged previously about the Desertec project, which envisions developing concentrated solar generation capacity in the Sahara and a direct current supergrid to bring the power to Europe. The World Bank has approved $297 million in […]
The Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, which was just released at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 34th Session being held in Kampala, […]
I’ve blogged previously about the tremendous impact that shale gas (also known as unconventional gas) extraction has had on the energy market in the US and potentially in Europe. For companies and firms engaged in identification, design, […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending […]
According to a very recent article at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) state commissioners met with two FERC commissioners and FERC staff to discuss FERC Order 1000 which is intended […]