We are in a new age of electricity demand. As the recent International Energy Agency (IEA) report reminds us, electricity demand is seeing some of its highest growth rates in the past decade. Headlines…
As federal clean energy incentives are targeted, red states face bigger losses.
In uncertain times, it helps to take a breath and look at the data. One great reference point is the International Energy Agency (IEA), and this year’s Global Energy Review provided some striking insights on…
As new clean technologies grow up S-curves, the incumbent technologies get pushed out in inverse S-curves.This creates an X pattern that is standard in technology history; we saw this for example in the shift from…
Commodities, like coal or oil, are lumps of matter we dig out of the ground. Technologies, like solar or batteries, are things we make in factories. Technologies are the meeting of matter and knowledge. Adding…
Contrary to popular belief, the buildout of renewable energy supply does not require a surge in capital expenditure (capex). As cleantech capex rises, fossil fuel capex falls. And the net growth in capex is only…
Until the Industrial Revolution, biomass ruled the energy kingdom. Then came coal, reigning over the top spot until the mid-20th century. Petroleum succeeded coal, but not for long. At the turn of the 21st century,…