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The Environmental Protection Agency announced its biodiesel quota for next year on Friday, increasing the amount of plant-based fuel it will require refiners to blend into petroleum-based diesel from 1 billion gallons to 1.28 billion gallons. The agency projects that...
A statistic you probably don’t know is SAIDI, system average interruption duration index. It means the average number of minutes per year for which the customers of an electricity network are deprived of power, not counting short interruptions of 1-5...
Yours truly, blogging in January on the political geography of renewable energy, and particularly the wide distribution of its sources in the West, South, and Midwest: If the Democrats play this right (especially ensuring that landowners and local communities benefit)...
Some of you asked for something completely different.Iran proudly switched on its first civilian nuclear reactor at Busheyr in 2011. It justifies its nuclear enrichment programme as needed for the development of civilian nuclear power. The USA, Israel, Europe and...
Energy prices have gone through boom and bust cycles in the past, and there is a real possibility that current prices could decline as they did in the 1980s, which fueled rapid economic expansion. Even though presidents have little control...