Gary Hunt is President, Scalable Growth Strategy Advisors, an independent energy technology and information services adviser and a partner in Tech & Creative Labs, a disruptive innovation software collaborative of high tech companies focused on the energy vertical. He served as VP-Global Analytics & Data at IHS/CERA; global Division President at Ventyx, now an ABB company; and Assistant City Manager-Austin Texas responsible for Austin Energy and Austin Water.
The Doha climate change conference concluded this week with what has become a familiar ring. Nothing much of import happened and increasingly fewer people noticed. …
The search for market equilibrium is an elusive quest in the solar energy industry. But the addiction to subsidies, carve-outs and other political favours has…
A funny thing is happening on the way to the clean energy future. While the US government wages a regulatory war on coal fired generation,…
More than 96% of the domestic energy production growth from shales has taken place on private lands safely out of the reach of the Federal…
You must admit there is a certain irony in reports out of Argentina by none other than the newly named CEO of YPF, (NYSE: YPF)…
When you read the Obama Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future and compare it to Romney’s Energy Plan for market-driven competitive energy growth to…
This is an overview of the Obama Energy Plan released in March 2011 as a Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future. A year later,…
The growth of oil and gas exploration in shales begun in North America is setting off a global race for shale E&P development and threatens…
“An affordable, reliable supply of energy is crucial to America’s economic future. I have a vision for an America that is an energy superpower, rapidly…
Nothing infuriates Americans more than volatile, spiking gasoline prices. Often the causes given for gasoline price hikes seem contrived. Iran and Israel trade harsh words…
American leadership in developing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing used in shale oil and gas plays is spreading around the world making it possible to…
Outsourcing has become a dirty word in the 2012 election, in part, because over the last decade the US lost more than 5 million jobs…
The Q2:2012 economic reports are in and—to use a technical term—the results suck! GDP growth has slowed to 1.5%, unemployment rates remain stubbornly high at…
The energy business cycle has always been dominated by boom and bust cycles. Through changes in technology, economic conditions and regulation nothing has altered that…
The economy, jobs and the debate over the direction of the country dominate 2012 political campaigns. Nowhere is the political rhetoric fiercer than on energy…
It does not feel like recovery. Recovery is a time for rationalizing the old and positioning for what is to come. I know it seems…
The latest economic statistics are out and it is not good news. The Federal Reserve’s latest projections for the U.S. economy show significant deterioration as…
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) workshop presentation of its Q2:2012 outlook for photovoltaic panels has attracted a lot of attention. Before the presentation BNEF leaked…
And you thought the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) was all about limiting greenhouse gas emissions, didn’t you? Think again.There is a brewing fight…
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to publish new proposed rules setting air quality standards for soot this week under terms of a tentative…
