Renewable Energy

Commentary: Global Energy Drivers in a “Black Swan World”

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Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…

United States – July 28

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– California votes down offshore project
– How Can Obama Pay for Healthcare Reform? How about Linking it to a ‘Manhattan Project for Energy Efficiency’?
– Lessons learned from General Motors’ collapse
– Climate Change and the Future of Southern California: Peak Oil and Climate Change Scenarios
– Is the ocean Florida’s untapped energy source?

An interview with Ray Leonard

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Ray Leonard was selected last week to serve as CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., a Houston-based and AMEX-listed oil and gas company with exploration assets in West Africa…A number of international organizations and elite audiences in Washington D.C. have heard his talks and have taken them seriously. Steve Andrews reached him last week and popped several quick questions.

Desertec: power to the people or just another mirage? – July 27

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– Matthias Reinig on Desertec Industrial Initiative
– Desertec Solar Project Shows That Green Investors Can’t Afford to be Too Green If They Want to Make $$
– European power from the desert is a Fata Morgana
– Stewart Taggart at Desertec-Australia on clean power from deserts worldwide

A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan

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After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there as a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday…