green energy - Bizmology

Norway’s “moon landing” — carbon capture and storage

by Stuart Hampton,
May 10, 2012, 8:42 AM

Norway’s “moon landing” — carbon capture and storage. The Norwegian government, Statoil and others are banking on being able to bury carbon.

Statoil to demonstrate floating offshore wind turbines in the US

by Stuart Hampton,
April 30, 2012, 8:38 AM

Statoil to demonstrate floating offshore wind turbines in the US. Cheaper, stronger, and more flexible than fixed platforms.

Coal loses out as Arizona’s utilities choose natural gas and renewables

by Stuart Hampton,
April 6, 2012, 9:04 AM

If Arizona’s major utilities are anything to go by, the future fuels for most of the country’s power plants will be natural gas and renewables (wind and solar). Sorry, coal. [...]

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees coal as king

by Stuart Hampton,
March 8, 2012, 9:29 AM

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees global energy growth up by 39%, natural gas and green energy use up, oil down, and coal as king.

US energy forecast: cloudy

by Josh Lower,
March 2, 2012, 2:38 PM

The latest energy forecast from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows natural gas and renewable energy sources growing their share of US electric power generation. Highlights of EIA’s Annual [...]

California now gets 5% of its energy from wind power

by Stuart Hampton,
February 6, 2012, 2:56 PM

California can now boast that it gets 5% of its energy from wind power, but Texas is still the wind power king.

Low voltage – GM scales back Chevy Volt production

by James Bryant,
January 26, 2012, 4:01 PM

The Chevy Volt not only is electrically charged, it has become politically-charged as well. Rarely, if ever, has a car been tied to the political whipping post like the Volt [...]

BP pulls the plug on its solar business

by Tracey Panek,
January 5, 2012, 3:55 PM

UK oil giant BP quietly announced a few days before Christmas that it was exiting the solar business. Like many others, I was out of the office when I read [...]