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Although coal-fired power plants have no mandatory retirement age, power plant owners and operators have reported to EIA that they plan to retire 28%,...
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Although coal-fired power plants have no mandatory retirement age, power plant owners and operators have reported to EIA that they plan to retire 28%,...
Originally published by the EIA. Nearly 18 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity was retired in 2015, a relatively high amount compared with recent...
Carbon capture and sequestration is expensive because it has three components, each with its own expensive challenges: capture, distribution, and sequestration. The mass of CO2...
The latest US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) “Electric Power Monthly” report with data through to the end of June, 2013, shows that renewable energy...
This post first appeared on the US Energy Information Administration Site Recent developments in Virginia put a spotlight on feed-in tariffs (FITs), which are...
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-923, Power Plant Operations Report. Notes: Non-hydroelectric renewables include generation from wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable sources such as...
The U.S. has 78 GW of hydropower – that supplied about 63 percent of all the power from renewable sources last year. But there are also 80,000 navigation locks,...
By 2020, we will use more energy storing all of our virtual lives “on the cloud” than we will by flying in airplanes. As...
Until this year, California homeowners have usually arranged to have their solar installations slightly undersized, because it didn’t pay to get stuck with excess...
With so much of our planet covered in the stuff, it is a surprise that water does not receive the attention that renewable technologies...
With my complete lack of faith in the US federal government, it warms my heart aplenty to see so much initiative by local governments...