U.S. Gas Production: Can We Trust the Projections?
Government (EIA) forecasts suffer in credibility when compared with geologic assessments.
Energy Information Administration
The Bush Plan and Beyond: Toward a More Rational U.S. Energy Policy
Any plan to reduce energy consumption should rest on economics — not ideology.
In addition to increasing total U.S. gas consumption to 34.7 Tcf in 2020, it would take another 11.3 Tcf/year to convert existing coal-fired U.S. steam-electric capacity to gas-fired combined-cycle units operating at the same load factor. Clearly, that is a tall order. Nevertheless, we must face the fact that there are few alternatives other than backing out coal-fired generation that would reduce global carbon emissions to a total of less than 870-990 million metric tons between 1991 and 2100. The logical endpoint will be electrification of most stationary energy uses with high-tech renewable or essentially inexhaustible energy sources, and the use of hydrogen from non-fossil-fuel sources as the dominant transportation fuel.
California's Power Gamble: Long-Term Contracts, Locked-In Risk
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
Let's consider three questions crucial to California's energy crisis and its plans for solution.
CO2 Does Not Pollute: But Kyoto's Demise Won't End Debate
A gas industry leader says Bush got it right, yet admits the worth of carbon abatement.
Money, Power and Trade: What You Never Knew About the Western Energy Crisis
Fortnightly
Fortnightly
Key to the Citygate
Have gas prices fallen victim to speculation?
On Thursday, Dec. 8, as natural gas hit $40 at the citygate for Southern California (prices hit $60 that Friday), I found myself in Colonial Williamsburg, a guest of Michigan State University's Institute of Public Utilities, at the group's annual conference, watching a panel of industry experts try in vain to explain what was happening.
Fossil Fuels and Energy Policy: Understanding the New Natural Gas Economy
How gas supply and price disruptions now outweigh oil imports as the nation's real energy problem.
News Analysis
<b>Methods vary, notes one analyst, but are they barking up the wrong tree?</b>
News Analysis
Electric Shopping Credits: In Search of an Apples- to-Apples Comparison
Pricing Reform for the Local Disco: Setting Rates That Will Support Distributed Generation
<b>The Proposed Distribution Tariff </b>
How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.
News Analysis
A Twenty-Fold Increase?
Former coal lobbyist Glenn Schleede plays Don Quixote, crusading against the DOE's 20-year initiative to boost investment in windmills.