Oft forgotten and on the periphery of the European Union, the Balkans plus Ukraine may have a plan to address the energy needs of the economic…
2015 is shaping up to be a fateful year for the coal industry. After coal prices tumbled from their highs in 2011, the industry hit a rough patch. Years…
Investors looking for the next “big thing” could be forgiven for being a little unsure about the state of the green energy revolution. While some commentators…
Government policies should shift incentives in solar energy away from rooftop deployment in residences toward utility-scale use because this is the most cost-effective way to deploy…
A scientific breakthrough in a laboratory in Seoul, South Korea could soon give Tesla, and other companies, a run for their money in the energy storage game. Scientists have developed…
Slowing productivity growth in the United States has been in the news in recent months. It has become a concern to policymakers because they believe it…
With major setbacks in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, the Obama administration has been faced with questions about its strategy. Rather than making progress…
Shell’s Arctic campaign this year will be pivotal. If the company cannot find large reserves of oil, it will likely set back Arctic oil development for…
BG Group’s assets in Tanzania give Shell another chance at East Africa’s huge gas opportunity. However, in the race to become Africa’s newest LNG exporter,…
Solar power appears to be hitting some technological hurdles, if the slowing rate of innovation in that industry is any indication. This apparent slowdown could…
As it appears GDP will be seasonally adjusted again, I find myself wondering just one thing: why? Earlier GDP figures showed the US economy on the…
There is no shortage of surprises in the world of oil. Nobody anticipated the rush of oil supplies that would come online in such a short…
More than a dozen people were killed as massive rain storms hit Texas, flooding large swathes of land across much of the state. The storms…
A new attempt to generate electricity from solar power using a Stirling engine created a ripple of interest recently when an article in the Guardian hailed…
Main Street investors are not the only ones who have been surprised by the speed and magnitude of the oil price collapse over the last year.…
Part 2: Cold War or Competition on the New Silk Road. Note:In Part 1 of “The New Silk Road,” we examined the China’s plan for rebuilding…
The past year has been seen oil prices drop to below $50 per barrel. But now that prices seem to be stabilizing, a number of new trends and investment opportunities…
The US rig count may finally be bottoming out. Baker Hughes reported that the number of rigs pulled from the oil patch fell to just…
OPEC publishes monthly production data for all OPEC nations in their Monthly Oil Market Report. The data crude oil production only and does not include condensate.…
U.S. retail gasoline prices last week averaged over $2.80 a gallon, thirty cents higher than a month ago. The preliminary University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment for…