Renewable energy now makes up 18 percent of total electrical generation in the U.S., roughly double the amount a decade ago, a new report shows. According to the sixth annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, which outlines key U.S. energy trends, renewable energy output in the power sector soared to a record high last year […]

Puerto Rico’s power company will begin shutting down as soon as Friday if it doesn’t receive a $1 billion loan from the territory’s central government, threatening to cause widespread electricity outages across the hurricane-devastated island, a lawyer for Puerto Rico told a U.S. judge. The injection of cash from the bankrupt government will allow the […]

Starting in April through to September, Tajikistan will export 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity to Uzbekistan. Mirzo Ismoilzoda, head of Tajik state-run power company Barki Tojik, said at a press conference on February 14 that although the sales agreement is in place, the sides have yet to land on a price mechanism. Despite the […]

The mix of fuels used to generate electricity in the United States has changed in response to differences in the relative costs of electricity-generating technologies and, for those technologies that consume fuel, the cost of fuel. Several cases in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) show how projected generation and capacity could continue to be […]

New electricity cables across the Channel to France and Belgium will be a key part of keeping Britain’s lights on during winter in the early 2020s, after their owners won backup power subsidies in a government auction this week. For the first time, interconnector operators successfully bid for a slice of hundreds of millions’ worth […]

A wide-ranging government inquiry will look into whether New Zealanders are getting a fair deal on their power bills. The entire electricity market from generators to retailers will be under scrutiny. The inquiry will look at power prices and whether the electricity sector as a whole is prepared for new technology like solar power and […]

The bomb cyclone weather event in early January 2018 resulted in record levels of U.S. natural gas demand and elevated wholesale natural gas and power prices around the country as reported in a special EIA analysis. A constrained natural gas pipeline network led to a significant increase in oil-fired and dual-fuel generation in New England […]

Coming off a year when the shale boom made the United States a leading producer of oil and natural gas, coupled with volatile crude oil prices and shifts in climate change policy, business leaders might have trouble predicting where the energy industry is headed in 2018. Is “going green” on energy a viable option for […]

Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region saw a year-on year growth of 44.9 percent in electricity generated by new energy sources last year, the local energy authority said Thursday. Published in Xinhua Net, 25th January, 2018 http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/25/c_136924475.htm

Wind power is forecast to surpass hydroelectricity for the first time as the nation’s top source of renewable electricity sometime in the next year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. The sector is expected to produce 6.4 percent of utility-scale electricity in 2018, and 6.9 percent in 2019, propelled by a construction boom of […]

The global power generation industry is expected to generate total revenues of $1,580.0bn in 2017, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.9% between 2013 and 2017. Published in Business Wire, 23rd January, 2018 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180123005670/en/Global-Power-Generation-Industry-Almanac-2017–

MIT engineers have found an easier way for heat to be converted into electricity. The researchers reengineered thermoelectric devices by making use of “topological” materials. These materials are ones that insulate the interior but support electron movement on an object’s surface. Postdoc Te-Huan Liu of MIT’s mechanical engineering department and his team made use of […]