The impact of shale gas on the US economy is hard to underestimate. The most important impact is that shale gas has pushed natural gas prices down and kept them there. Incredibly in 2009 there […]
Shale gas has dramatically impacted the US natural gas market and US energy prices in general. A recent US Energy Informattion Administration (EIA) report has estimated world reserves of technically recoverable shale gas, meaning gas […]
New drilling technology including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made possible the profitable extraction of natural gas from geologic formations, primarily shale, that are uneconomic for conventional natural gas production. The impact of shale […]
According to a recent report Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs at the Bipartisan Policy Center, it is estimated rhat 30 to 40 percent of the 400,000 people employed in electricity generation, transmission and […]
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) designated development of a smart grid as a national policy goal and specifically said that the interoperability framework should be “flexible, uniform, and technology neutral” while […]
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released a report, Transportation Electrification: A Technology Overview, which provides projections of the commercial rollout of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), gives an overveiw of vehicle, plug-in and other […]
Germany’s aging population and low birth rates is creating a labour shortage that is limiting Germany’s economic growth. According to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce DIHK Germany needs 400,000 engineers, master craftsmen and […]
I have been travelling a bit and got a bit behind on some of the things that I normally try to track. One of the most exciting things that has happened over the past few […]