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People still argue passionately for or against fracking. It's a political football, and in some cases the science doesn’t seem to matter at all.

In 2020. 85% of the leading project finance lenders in solar said that little-to-none of their business came from refinancing in 2020, laying the foundation for a refinancing boom in 2021.

Replacing coal use for power generation should be the first priority of climate change policy, but renewables are not well-suited to task.

As OPEC fades OMEC moves into view.

CPS Energy, the municipal electric utility serving San Antonio and the surrounding area, has won the first skirmish against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator, over charges resulting from the deep freeze in February.

The U.K. startup is expanding its model line to include a small, battery-powered passenger car and is partnering with Uber to fine-tune it for rideshare fleets.

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger revealed over the weekend that Greg Abel, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway’s vast electric power generation business would be taking over from them some day.

A recent report by the consulting/analytical firm Wood MacKenzie projects what would appear to be devastating impacts on the oil and natural gas industry should the world achieve the emissions targets put forward by the 2015 Paris Climate Accords.

Africa is adding solar energy at a record clip. But the need is urgent now -- not just to combat global warming but to protect against COVID 19.

It is not the global climate system that’s broken, it’s the alleged “climate consensus” that is. That in a nutshell is a central message of physicist Steve Koonin’s new book, “Unsettled”. He has written a brave and convincing book on the weak case of an impending human-induced climate apocalypse.

A spokesman for Mayor Bill DeBlasio called the robot “creepy” and said he was “glad the Digidog was put down.”

Amtrak could benefit from better management, not just more money.

Energy has played a pivotal role in human development since time immemorial. Dr. Alexander Mirtchev of the Atlantic Council and George Mason just came out with a massive, in-depth treatment of the subject in his book Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition,

The changeover from fossil fuels to renewables behooves US governments as well as fossil energy companies to look at what South Australia has learned.

America’s leading climate and environmental groups including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation, and Environmental Defense Fund have not responded to repeated queries about evidence that China is forcing Uyghur Muslims to make solar panels.

The premature closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant should make anyone who cares about climate change, electricity prices, or the security of our electric grid more cynical about the politicians and "green" groups who claim we need to take urgent action on climate change.

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