US wind capacity hits 100 gigawatts; Texas is No. 1 wind state
By L.M. Sixel Updated 3:29 pm CST, Monday, December 9, 2019 The nation has reached a new milestone with 100 gigawatts of installed wind energy capacity, with more than half of that installed in just the past seven years, according to the Department of Energy. The nation has reached a milestone of 100 gigawatts of […]
Natural Gas Cleaning Up The Power Sector
Power generators have turned to cheaper natural gas over coal in an effort to lower emissions, but cleaner forms of energy are expected to make a move on natural gas. By Frank Nieto As seen on HartEnergy.Com on 4/25/2019 For years one of the biggest goals for the natural gas industry has been toppling coal […]
A New Green Deal — Investing In The Energy Transition
As seen on Forbes.com on April 24th, 2019 ByJoel Moser Investment in the energy transition has grown up; no longer occupying the small socially responsible corner of Wall Street, it has become a central market-based destination for capital all along the risk spectrum, from infrastructure to private equity to venture, as new and improved technologies […]
Competition Puts Consumers in Driver’s Seat in Race to Modernize Electricity
BY ROBERT DILLON As published in the Morning Consult HERE Competition is a core value of the American free-market system. Competitive markets produce the most efficient results in our economy, providing lower costs and a greater array of choices for consumers than government regulators. That was true in the 1980s with the deregulation of the telecom […]
Distribution-Scale Solar Goes Big in Texas
February 22, 2018 | By Dan Seif Texas has long been known as the capital of oil and gas. And over the past decade it added so much wind power that if Texas were a country, it would be the world’s fourth-largest wind producer. Looking back at the past few years, a fourth energy trend […]