-
Jan 06, 2011
|
Martin Rosenberg
A crystal ball - yours for the taking!
What do some leading energy journalists have to say about 2011?
And what were the hottest stories of 2010?
www.energybiz.com/article/11/01/hot-button-issues-energy
-
Nov 05, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
What will the world look like when energy consumption increase 130-fold in the next century as some predict?
www.energybiz.com - Friday posting
-
Oct 28, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
http://www.energybiz.com/article/10/10/coal-generation-retreat
1,400 coal trains, each averaging 100 cars long, criss-crossed America one week earlier this month, helping keep the lights on.
I remember as a boy neighborhood stores in Brooklyn had chutes for delivery of coal.
Those are long gone. Will America's dependence on coal today one day be a memory?
-
Sep 17, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
Take a read....
top story ... www.energybizmag.com
this morning and let me know what you think.
-
Jul 28, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
AEON Lake Town Center fashions itself as Japan`s largest mall and one of the largest in Asia.
It also may well be the most energy efficient palace to shopping anywhere in the world. It opened two years ago on the sprawling plains outside of Tokyo, about a half hour drive from the center of city in off-peak traffic periods. The place is gleaming. Fitting its image, one smacks into a Prius...
-
Jul 25, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
As the lightning crackled around a nearby a major manufactured housing factory, a group of American utility folks touring Japan this week learned Monday about the appeal of PV in this island nation.
The Solar Electric Power Association group spent the afternoon touring the Sekisui factory in Saitama outside Tokyo. Here is the deal. The company started offering consumers the option of buying...
-
Jul 22, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
Leon Roose will be there. He is with the Hawaiian Electric Co.
So will Sharon Staz, with Kennebunk Light & Power.
SEPA has assembled a diverse cluster of utility industry executives from Hawaii to Maine and points in between to head to Japan this week for its third annual mission to study what foreign countries have been able to do deploying solar. The implication is that the United States...
-
Jul 15, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
It seems half a loaf is what Team Obama wants to now settle for instead of a whole.
News reports surfaced yesterday saying the administration will press forward on a carbon cap on just the utility sector, which is responsible for one-third to 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, depending on who is doing the counting.
The rest of the economy will be excluded from the cap. I wonder if some of...
-
Jul 08, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
The chart popped off the page of a recent Business Week.
It is titled OF GREENBACKS AND GREEN POWER,
One heading: total gigawatts of green power - and the US with its sizable energy economy is tops at 53.4 gigawatts. But China is fast closing on the US at 52.5 gigawatts.
More telling is the category of green power as a share of total capacity. It begs a glaring question. The US stands at 4...
-
Jun 24, 2010
|
Martin Rosenberg
Dan Arvizu, the head of the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colo., was in Kansas City yesterday to talk energy with the city's Economic Club.
He reminded everyone how much the US has accomplished. "The United States is the number one producer in the world" when it comes to wind energy. At least for now.
He and I have talked in the past about the roller-coaster funding his...
Martin Rosenberg is Editor-in-Chief
of EnergyBiz Magazine. EnergyBiz is a bimonthly business magazine for leaders in the new power industry. EnergyBiz
is a controlled circulation publication that reaches more than 20,000 of the most influential managers, executives,
legislators, regulators, lawyers and consultants who play critical roles in utilities, government, advisory firms,
and supplier companies.
