Energy Report

Two years ago, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and a successful ramp-up of renewable energy subsidies, the German government decided to permanently shut down eight of its 17 nuclear power plants and pledged to gradually close the remaining nine by 2022.

The World Economic Forum is busy this week prepping for next week’s annual get-together of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland.

The United Arab Emirates last month won the right to host World Expo 2020, beating out Yekaterinburg, Russia; Izmir, Turkey and São Paulo, Brazil.

You can't turn around in Germany without seeing wind turbines, many of them now of the gearless variety, their three blades turning their faces to the breeze.

Governors continued to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency and other forms of clean energy during their 2013 state legislative sessions, according to a report released Oct. 21 by the National Governors Association (NGA).

More than $100 billion of investment will be required to meet growing energy demand in Turkey, says İlker Aycı, president of the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT).

In the company of U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) early this month released its annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.

Tommy Strömberg, COO and EVP Products for Innotech Solar, used to work for REC Silicon, where about six years ago one of his colleagues had an idea.

It wasn’t enough to help prevent partial federal government shutdown, but it was impressive nonetheless.

Apparently, even with the government’s shades drawn, the sun still rises.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: A megaproject has surfaced in Nigeria.

While many businesses and industries evaluate their next-generation work force after colleges and universities graduate students, in the Carolinas the energy industry follows another path.

Last week the EPA finalized the 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program established by Congress. Most of these fuels are produced by American farmers and growers domestically and help reduce carbon pollution.

When the 100-MW Quartzsite Solar Project in La Paz County, Ariz., receive US Dept. of Interior approval on June 3, it was just the latest in a series of projects around the world for the large-scale solar developer.

Last week the US Dept. of Energy released two new reports showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind power market. According to the DOE, in 2012 wind energy became the number one source of new U.S. electricity generation capacity for the first time - representing 43 percent of all new electric additions and accounting for $25 billion in U.S. investment.

Rivers by definition drive apart. But there's no shortage of examples where they've served to bring regions together. Think Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, Greater Pittsburgh or Minneapolis-St. Paul.

In May Ernst & Young published the latest edition of its Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), marking 10 years since the index's first edition.

Fisker Automotive is in bankruptcy. Coda's story has reached its own bankruptcy coda. And Better Place's vision for an electric car network has gone to a better place.

A search of Halliburton's 2,100 current job openings shows a bit over 1 percent of them (29) are in Colorado. Sixteen of those are in the company's Brighton district, where Halliburton this spring has brought online the world's largest frac sand terminal at Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor.

Companies involved in all aspects of traditional or renewable energy development are seeing a lot of action from the US Dept. of the Interior since former REI President and CEO Sally Jewell was sworn in as its new Secretary in April.

Despite many benefits of locating businesses in New England such as proximity to a huge customer base, the relatively high cost of utilities can act as a damper to business growth, even if prices last year hit a record low.

Not knowing whether the wind production tax credit would be renewed or not, a megaload of wind farm projects and expansions came online just before the finish line in 2012.