LED Lighting: Global Outlook: Commercial, Residential, Industrial, Outdoor, and Automotive Markets: Global Market Analysis and Forecasts

What Went Wrong in Oil-Price Forecasts?

This was supposed to be the year oil prices turned around. How did market watchers get this so wrong? Analysts say they forgot the lesson that supply-driven downturns can last a long time.

With Oil Analysis "What You Know is What Counts"

For the well-honed reliability program, knowledge equals power and financial success. Without an appreciation of how to derive knowledge from data, it is not difficult for the poorly informed,...

Two Charts That Show How Renewable Energy Has Blown Away Expectations

The world’s most prominent energy forecaster will raise its outlook for wind and solar installations following a decade of underestimating growth in the renewables industry.

Machine learning techniques applied to solar flares forecasting

Space weather encompasses the Solar-Terrestrial environment’s interactions, emphasizing phenomena in the solar environment, such as sunspots, coronal …

Why EIA, IEA, and BP Oil Forecasts are Too High

When forecasting how much oil will be available in future years, a standard approach seems to be the following:

Why a green electricity grid depends on weather forecasts improving

Ramping up fossil power sources is no longer a good option in an energy-supply crisis. Bring in the weather forecasters.

Planning For A Microgrid: How Economic And Infrastructure Analysis Can Help 

As the installed costs for solar PV projects have rapidly declined in recent years, more solar PV has been installed across the U.S., and the traditional model of a centralized utility grid is evolving to accommodate distributed energy resources (DER). These changes are empowering utility and large commercial customers to strategically manage energy and control …

How Just 5 Copper Mines Determine Global Supply

With production down, miners are having to search farther and dig deeper to access copper.

Improved forecasting of sunlight could help increase solar energy generation

The Sun is becoming an increasingly important source of clean electricity. Accurate sunlight forecasts being developed by A*STAR researchers could greatly improve the performance of solar energy plants, making it a viable alternative to carbon-based sources of power.

Could tight oil go global?

What lessons can countries draw from the remarkable rise in US tight oil production

Is the marvel of LED lighting also a blight on global health?

Zillow analysis finds solar homes sold for 4.1% more than others in past year

More than 80% of home buyers say energy-efficient features are important, a truth that's reflected by data showing homes with solar energy systems fetch

Shell is Wrong: Global Oil Demand Can Only Increase

The great shale rise has put to bed the 'peak oil production' theory but it has not stopped the apparent new concern of 'peak oil demand.'

Sails made global shipping possible. Can they make it greener?

Know Your Oil: Creating a Global Oil-Climate Index

Oil is changing. Conventional oil resources are dwindling as tight oil, oil sands, heavy oils, and others emerge.

LED lighting has become a global threat to public health

Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive assault on the ecology of the planet, including us. It also has indirect impacts because, while 20 per cent of electricity is used for lighting worldwide, at least 30 per cent of that light is wasted. Wasted light serves no purpose at all, and excessive lighting is too often used beyond what is …

Explainer: Six ideas to limit global warming with solar geoengineering

Scientists agree that cutting global greenhouse emissions as soon as possible will be key to tackling global warming. But some researchers are now calling for more research into measures that could be taken alongside emissions cuts, including – controversially – the use of “solar geoengineering” technologies.

6 Signs The Big Global Switch To Solar Has Already Begun

These six events in the solar industry demonstrate how the global switch to solar is happening at a much faster pace than first expected