In major economies transmission is the enabler for getting electric power to electric distribution companies, for creating a single market for electric power and for integrating major sources of renewable energy. Two persistent issues […]
I blogged earlier about new natural gas and renewable power generation capacity installed in the EU in 2010. It is interesting to look at the long term trends in EU energy consumption since 1990. […]
I have blogged previously about the funding challenges facing water utilities and the myriad ways that water utilities are using to fund critical water projects, for example, projects to reduce combined sewer overflows resulting from […]
A bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate (S.1669 – Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 2011) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a program of awarding grants […]
According to Oak Ridge national lab (ORNL) Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center latest estimates of emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement manufacture suggest that 2010 was a record year for CO2 emissions. Globally over 33.5 […]
According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest Annual Energy Review, emissions of CO2 from energy consumption in the U.S. increased by 3.7 percent in 2010 over 2009, reversing a downward trend in the last […]
The EPA plans to issue the final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants by December 16, 2011. The EPA has opposed a motion from the Utility Air Regulatory Group seeking a one-year […]
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has finalized the rules for the state’s cap-and-trade program, which is a key part of California’s climate change law (AB 32) which mandates greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) be reduced […]