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IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation   |
CIO
May 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning... |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Damien Cave |
Green power in the red Electricity deregulation is bankrupting California's fledgling eco-friendly energy industry... |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Damien Cave |
Power and the people The electricity industry and the GOP blame NIMBY neighbors for the crisis. Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy... |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Anthony York |
The deregulation debacle Who's responsible for for California's electricity crisis? Everyone... |
BusinessWeek
March 14, 2005
Peter Coy |
Energy Crisis? Phooey With crude oil prices topping $50 a barrel and another expensive driving season ahead, it seems like a bad time for a book called The Bottomless Well |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Jill Jusko |
Power Hungry No doubt about it, manufacturing is a powerfully hungry energy consumer. But the energy landscape is changing, and manufacturers must be ready to adapt to an uncertain future. |
Reason
July 2005
Kerry Howley |
Soundbite: Energy Forever An interview with Peter Huber, author of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run out of Energy that contends environmentalists should love nuclear power, free marketers should embrace hybrid cars, and we should all calm down about high oil prices. |
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin |
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2013
Arno de Klerk |
A carbon-based future It is almost guaranteed that over the next 50 years most of our energy will still come from carbon-based raw materials. In this respect, there are four important issues to keep in mind. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Mosko & Bellotti |
Smart Conservation for the Lazy Consumer People aren't conserving energy for love or money -- you have to trick them into it |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
Wired
February 2005
Schwartz & Reiss |
Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming. |
Salon.com
November 13, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Silicon hogs A new study tars microchip manufacturing as wasteful and inefficient. Whatever happened to high tech's squeaky-clean image? |
Salon.com
May 8, 2001
Dan Ackman |
A phantom energy crisis The Bush administration has convinced the nation that we're in the middle of a power emergency, but the facts indicate otherwise... |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2007
John Carey |
Solar's Day In The Sun John O'Donnell 's big hurdle has been finding a technology that can match the low cost of fossil fuel. He thinks he has that licked. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Michael Arndt |
The New Clean Fuel: Coal Producer Goes Green American Electric Power, once the nemesis of environmentalists, will embrace an eco-friendly way of producing electricity from coal. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter. |
IDB America
April 2008
Paul Constance |
Latin America's Choice Brazil proves that voluntary changes in behavior, combined with modest investments in energy-saving equipment, can produce huge savings without compromising human welfare or economic growth. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
John E. Besant-Jones & Bernard Tenenbaum |
Lessons from California's Power Crisis Clearly, what happened in California was not what was planned. It is not surprising that policymakers around the world are now asking questions... |
PC World
April 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Computing Through an Energy Crisis: How to Save Money and Power Helpful tips to keep you up and running--with the lights on... |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Huaneng Power Browns Out High coal prices smack first-half earnings for this Chinese power company. Still, the stock does offer a dividend yield of more than 4%, and the long-term outlook for electricity demand in China has to be considered robust at this point. |
CIO
April 15, 2006
Susannah Patton |
Powering Down Electricity-hungry equipment, combined with rising energy prices, are devouring data center budgets. Here's what you can do to get costs under control. |
Salon.com
June 19, 2001
Joe Conason |
Take it public The failure of energy deregulation should make us reconsider blind faith in the market -- and take a second look at public power systems like the one that lights up Hollywood... |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2014
James Hansen |
The energy to fight injustice We need to help developing countries obtain abundant, affordable carbon-free energy. The enormity of anti-nuclear policy decisions is difficult to exaggerate. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Megan Sever |
Coal's Staying Power Whatever technologies "win" as economies around the world continue to grow, and other energy source prices remain high, coal production, consumption and prices will all continue to rise, despite continuing concerns about pollution from coal-fired power plants. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Aimee Duffy |
U.S. Natural Gas Kills Coal An abundance of natural gas changes the game for coal players. |
Reason
June 2001
Carolyn Lochhead |
Electrifying Performances California's senators' responses to the energy crisis... |
IndustryWeek
December 10, 2008
Andrew Fellon |
Viewpoint -- What to Expect from Obama's Coming Energy Initiatives The U.S. will see higher prices in electricity and fossil fuels as producers struggle to adjust to new laws and standards. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Anthony York |
Power politics California Democrats are trying to buy electricity to sell to state utilities, but Republicans and energy companies are crying foul... |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Erin Schulte |
The Other Black Gold--Coal With the U.S. thirst for electricity showing no signs of slowing, with oil prices skyrocketing and, perhaps most importantly, with a coal-friendly administration firmly entrenched, the coal industry looks like it is on an extended winning streak. Investors, take note. |
Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Anthony York |
Energy vultures California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.... |
Chemistry World
March 7, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Ditching Fossil Fuels Could Stretch Water Resources Running vehicles on alternatives to fossil fuels could stress scarce water resources, US scientists have warned. |
Scientific American
August 2007 |
Worse Than Gasoline Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Prachi Patel Predd |
A Power Plant for the Home Basement furnaces generate electricity, too: Recently gaining popularity in Europe and Japan, micro-CHP (combined heat and power), as it's called, has now broken into the lucrative U.S. market. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2009
John Carey |
The Clash Over Clean Power Utility chiefs are juggling the conflicting goals of green energy and low rates - and self-interest reigns. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
James B. Meigs |
The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis Although coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, they are still bad news for the environment and human health. |
CFO
July 1, 2006
John Goff |
Power Source How a fresh crop of CFOs is propelling the alternative-fuels industry. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2002
Glenn Hasek |
Hedging Your Bets Conservation plans that protect during crisis pay cost-cutting dividends year-round. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2009
Christopher Barker |
Like It or Not, FutureGen Is Coming If a project to generate electricity is undertaken primarily by a group of coal miners, are we seeing the beginnings of a structural shift in the industry? The alliance consists of my top two picks in the industry -- Peabody Energy and CONSOL Energy |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Dexter Roberts |
China's Power Outages Come Early and Often Power shortages in China have caused brownouts and pit power generators, who want to raise prices, against regulators. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Eliza Strickland |
Can Japan Phase Out Nuclear Power? The country wants to go nuclear-free, but many obstacles remain |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly. |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. |
