Category Archives: EIA

Oil and Gas

Posted on 23 November 2018 by ecoquant

What the head of the American Petroleum Institute, Frank Ikard, said in 1965.

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(reblog) Bill Ritter, Jr, Colorado State University: “Market forces are driving a clean energy revolution in the U.S.”

Posted on 22 April 2018 by ecoquant

Transforming U.S. energy systems away from coal and toward clean renewable energy was once a vision touted mainly by environmentalists. Now it is shared by market purists. Today, renewable energy resources like wind and solar power are so affordable that … Continue reading →

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“Eon and RWE just killed the utility as we know it”

Posted on 11 March 2018 by ecoquant

The story’s at Bloomberg.

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“Explosive methane will create two million jobs!”

Posted on 3 July 2017 by ecoquant

The American Petroleum Institute has trotted out a commissioned study claiming an increase of two million jobs in 2040 off a base of four million (in 2015). First, these are not people working with development or distribution of natural gas. … Continue reading →

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Deloitte: The drumbeats for the extinction of utilities have begun

Posted on 15 June 2017 by ecoquant

Deloitte Resources 2017 Study — Energy management: Sustainability and progress. From The Economist, 25th February 2017: FROM his office window, Philipp Schröder points out over the Bavarian countryside and issues a Bond villain’s laugh: “In front of you, you can … Continue reading →

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`Evidence of a decline in electricity use by U.S. households’ (Prof Lucas Davis, U.C. Berkeley)

Posted on 8 May 2017 by ecoquant

This is from a blog post by Professor Lucas Davis at his blog. In addition to the subject, that’s an interesting way of presenting a change over time I’ll need to think about: It seems the model could be used … Continue reading →

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The Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project, in association with ClimateMirror

Posted on 19 January 2017 by ecoquant

(Updated the afternoon of 31st May 2017.) The Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project, operating in association with ClimateMirror, is being funded via the Kickstarter available at this link. Give what you can. Thanks! See our goal statement. This is all … Continue reading →

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Westwood Solar & Energy Fair

Posted on 5 November 2016 by ecoquant

Today. Flyer. Position yourself to ride the Energy Revolution. Adapt to warming due to human-caused climate change in the Northeast U.S. by changing over your heating and cooling sources. Make Money. Increase the value of your home. Move towards your … Continue reading →

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Gustin and companies lack technological and business imagination

Posted on 1 September 2016 by ecoquant

Carl Gustin, a consultant to the New England Coalition for Affordable Energy, which “includes many of New England’s major business and industry organizations and labor representatives”, wrote an op-ed in favor of additional natural gas and pipelines for Massachusetts in … Continue reading →

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A model of an electrical grid: A vision

Posted on 3 August 2016 by ecoquant

Many people seem to view the electrical grid of the future being much like the present one. I think a lot about networks, because of my job. And I especially think a lot about network topologies, although primarily concerning the … Continue reading →

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Where’s NY-REV today?

Posted on 23 May 2016 by ecoquant

This is a video and link from The Rocky Mountain Institute about New York State’s Reforming the Energy Visions or “REV”. I have written about REV before.

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Germany’s Energiewende aims to make baseload power obsolete

Posted on 29 April 2016 by ecoquant

In a December 2015 article in Forbes, William Pentland seeks to answer the question “What is so revolutionary about Germany’s Energiewende?” Mr Pentland begins: Germany’s energy revolution has become the perennial punching bag of American energy policy. In particular, American … Continue reading →

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The rationale for reducing Net Metering is based both on unsound math and unsound physics

Posted on 15 March 2016 by ecoquant

News on the diddling-with-metering front. I argued in a comment today that the standard rationale for a change in net metering is based upon accounting and legal contract which is both unsound physics and unsound mathematics. Recall that that rationale … Continue reading →

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I ask again: Does Massachusetts have a share of the clean energy future?

Posted on 16 February 2016 by ecoquant

Or is Governor Baker and the Massachusetts House going to subcontract that to other states, like Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York? They are coming. Update, 2016-02-23 Where does Massachusetts get its energy now?

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Wind and Solar are Cheaper than Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Right Now

Posted on 11 December 2015 by ecoquant

… and that’s based upon levelized cost of energy, without subsidies! See a summary of Lazard’s report, the key chart below: (Click on image to see a larger version. Click on your browser’s Back button to return to blog.) the … Continue reading →

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“Projected Costs of Generating Electricity” (IEA report)

Posted on 28 September 2015 by ecoquant

The 2015 edition is now available. Some highlights: They included a sensitivity analysis (!) along with their statistical findings. Applause!! Figure ES.2 shows the LCOE ranges for various renewable technologies – namely, the three categories of solar PV in the … Continue reading →

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Foul concerns (UPDATE: 14th September 2015)

Posted on 12 September 2015 by ecoquant

Updated, 14th September 2015 I submitted a Letter to the Editor of The Westwood Press last week, one which was published in Friday’s paper edition. It did not/has not yet made it online. It was in response to an article … Continue reading →

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“Dismantling the Utility Model is the Fastest Path to a Cleaner Electricity Infrastructure”

Posted on 7 September 2015 by ecoquant

Dismantling the Utility Model is the Fastest Path to a Cleaner Electricity Infrastructure, by Thomas Conroy.

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Why coastal New England is good for wind

Posted on 20 August 2015 by ecoquant

(Click on image for larger graphic.) By the way, this “sigma.995” says the wind speeds are for where the atmospheric pressure is 0.995 of Sea Level atmospheric pressure. Compare with Texas. And see this chart of installed wind capacity: (Click … Continue reading →

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