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May 2009 EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer, Renewables by Cheryl Morgan on the April 30th, 2009

The May 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • US Poised To Fire On All Cylinders In Copenhagen
  • Does it Make Sense For Oil Rich UAE To Go Nuclear?
  • What To Do About Carbon’s Deeply Unequal Effects
  • No More Free Carbon: EPA Requires Carbon Reporting
  • Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Project: Desert Mirage Or Miracle?
  • How Many Green Jobs Will There Be?
  • Missing Headline: CAISO Goes Nodal And Nothing Happens
  • Wind’s Global Contribution to Grow
  • Global Solar PV Installations Reach 6 GW Milestone in 2008

The article on the Masdar Project is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To request a sample copy of EEnergy Informer click here.

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April 2009 EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the April 8th, 2009

The April 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • Does Clean And Green Rhyme With Recession And Unemployment?
  • EDF And ENEL to Launch Italy’s Nuclear Future
  • Coal Fighting For Survival
  • A Dying Breed: AAA Rating
  • Will Obama’s Climate Plan Be Too Taxing On Sputtering Economy?
  • In Search Of Elusive Carbon Neutrality
  • Don’t Like Coal? Try More Energy Efficiency
  • Greening of Michigan And New York
  • Will AMI Investments Pay Off?
  • USCAP: Being At The Table And Ending Up As Lunch
  • Disappointed With Markets, Maryland Toys With Re-Regulation

The article on the US climate plan is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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March EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the February 27th, 2009

The March 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • Renewable Stimulus Creating Jobs Overseas?
  • Sweden to Reverse Nuclear Ban
  • IRENA: Do We Need Yet Another Energy Agency?
  • Will A LNG Flood Lead To The Collapse Of Natural Gas Prices?
  • Grid Operators Envision Windy Future
  • A National Renewable Portfolio Standard: What Is There Not To Like?
  • PJM Puts Price Tag On Climate Change Proposals
  • Renewables Now Come In GW Size
  • Southern Company Unit Applies For IGCC
  • A Better Shade Of Green

The article on LNG is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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January EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the January 6th, 2009

The January 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • Dawn of a new energy era?
  • Bending to Pressures, EU Waters Down Its Cap and Trade Scheme
  • California Forges Ahead On Carbon Diet Despite Economic Woes
  • Coal Gets A Wakeup Call On Both Sides Of The Atlantic
  • Poznan As A Precursor To Copenhagen?
  • Buffett Gets The Last Laugh As EDP Snaps Constellation
  • Drowning In Cheap Oil? Enjoy It While It Lasts
  • Can China Meet Its Ambitious Wind Targets?
  • Environmentalists Wish Comes True: Un-damming The Dams
  • Hawaii To Get Off Its Extreme Oil Addiction
  • Energy Conservation South African Style: Cut Back Or Else
  • Energy Efficiency Can Cut US Electricity Demand In Half

The article on dam removal is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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December EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the November 26th, 2008

The December 2008 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • Draconian Measures Needed To Avert Climate Change
  • Don’t Be Fooled By Current Low Oil Prices
  • Schwarzenegger Orders 33% RPS For California
  • FERC Institutionalizes DR
  • NERC: Wind Major Factor In Coming Decade
  • No Reprieve For Coal
  • PHEVs More About The Grid Than The Vehicles
  • Wind To Supply 30% Of Global Energy By 2050?
  • Ausra’s First Solar Plant Goes On Line
  • New World Order
  • Sustainable Capitalism?
  • Financial Turmoil Hits CleanTech Along With Everything Else

The article demand response is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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November EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the November 6th, 2008

The November issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • Gore vs. Coal
  • Australia Approaches Climate Change With Apprehension
  • OFGEM: No Cartel In British Market
  • RGGI Goes Live
  • Is ERCOT Market Performing Well?
  • California Tops ACEEE Rankings On Energy Efficiency
  • CCS Technology Viable
  • What Is Google Doing In Energy Space?
  • Acceptable Nuclear?
  • US Nuclear Agreement Opens Doors To India
  • Market Woes May Be A Blessing In Disguise
  • Germany Moving Towards A National Grid
  • Financial Turmoil Affects Dynamics of Power Markets

And it appears that due to rush projects elsewhere I completely forgot to bring you the contents list for the October issue, so here it is:

  • CA Regulators Adopt 33% RPS Despite Rising Costs
  • Turmoil In Financial Markets Overspills To Energy
  • Who Delivers Better Results? Markets Or Central Planners?
  • GE And Google To Promote Smart Grid
  • Data Centers Belatedly Go Green
  • US Wind $60 Billion Business By 2013
  • Xcel Finds No Reprieve For Coal
  • Germany To Reconsider Nuclear Phase-out
  • Give Us Our Daily Juice
  • Marketing Green Electricity: How Much Is too Much?
  • Megawatts vs. Negawatts: How So Little Can Do So Much
  • Book review: Hot, Flat & Crowded

The articles on Australia and data centers are available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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September EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the September 4th, 2008

The September issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

  • California Utilities Playing Catch-up With Ever Rising RPS Targets
  • US To Lose Top Manufacturing Slot To China – Surprised?
  • Nuclear Waste: A Distant And Expensive Mirage
  • Why Does Everything Cost More?
  • ESKOM’s Massive Investment Hits New Snag
  • Why Sun Shines On Cloudy Germany
  • Sustainability Moving Up Management’s Agenda
  • Is California Spending Money Like Drunken Sailors?
  • California’s Efficiency Targets Gets Another Boost
  • CFL Sales: Slowly But Surely On The Rise
  • Texas To Stick With Competition Despite The Flaws
  • Women Against Coal: What Next?
  • Another First: Volunteering To Shut Down Coal Plants

The article on sustainability is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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August EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the August 18th, 2008

We are a little late with this due to all the traveling that has been going on, but here is the contents list for the August issue of EEnergy Informer, and a link to one of the articles.

  • An Inconvenient Goal: De-carbonized Electricity Within Decade
  • What – if Anything Did G8 Summit Accomplish?
  • Georgia Takes A Stand On Carbon Emissions
  • Want To Learn About US Energy Policy? Ask T. Boone Pickens
  • Portugal To Promote Zero-Emission Cars
  • California Has A Road Map For Climate Action
  • Regulators Caught In Cross Fire: Damned If You Do, Damned If Your Don’t
  • China’s Real Olympic Challenge: Managing Capacity Shortfalls
  • ENEL Ventures Into Offshore Wind
  • UK’s Renewable Policy: Too Dear And Too Late?

The article on regulation is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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July EEnergy Informer

Posted in EEnergy Informer by Cheryl Morgan on the June 30th, 2008

The July 2008 issue of EEnergy Informer has been released. The contents list is as follows:

  • Has Oil Reached A Turning Point?
  • Blowing Too Fast? Exponential Growth Brings Problems For Wind
  • Sempra’s LNG Bets Pay Off With Costa Azul
  • Exxon Dismisses Wake-up Call
  • Erratic Prices Afflict Texas Market
  • BP Abandons Australian CSS
  • Still Looking For A Site For Nuclear Waste
  • Solar Energy Striving For Grid Parity
  • Outage In Britain Gives Brown A Pretext To Push Nuclear Agenda
  • IGCC Suffers Regulatory Setback
  • Xcel To Showcase Smart Grid In Boulder
  • New Website Launched

The article on the LNG is available for free, and the final article is about this site. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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June EEnergy Informer

Posted in Articles, EEnergy Informer by Staff on the May 22nd, 2008

The June 2008 issue of EEnergy Informer has been released. The contents list is as follows:

  • Solar Energy Growing Up Fast
  • Britain To Chart Its Electricity Future, Soon or Sooner
  • Juneau Responds To Price Jolt
  • Why Too Much Of A Good Thing Could Be Bad
  • Wind: 20% by 2030?
  • Plug-in Hybrids: Making Utilities More Important than Oil Companies
  • Will We Be Using Yesterday’s Technology in 2050?
  • Rockefellers vs. Exxon
  • Fortune 500: The Big And Mighty
  • Book Reviews: An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, by Nigel Lawson; Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence, by Robert Bryce

The article on the intermittency problem in renewable generation is available for free, as are the book reviews. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

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