GLG News by Alternative Energy Experts (North America)

    Court’s decision vacating the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) potentially affects utilities or IPPs long the allowances as described in the section that follows.

    When air pollution retrofits are placed on a power plant, a regulated, investor-owned, utility financially benefits.  An unregulated, independent power producer (IPP) does not necessarily financially benefit.

This story on a US based installer setting up shop in Mediterranean Europe is a good example of the challenges of dealing with what was until recently two of the hottest PV markets in the world for 2009 - Spain and the United States.  The dynamics of what the changes in incentives will do and how...

    The Court’s July 11, 2008 decision vacating the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) caused the price of SO2 emissions allowances to decrease less than the cost of operating a scrubber to reduce the SO2 emissions.  The discussions that follow discuss this and the likelihood...

    As the article points out, natural gas-fired generation may be cheaper than coal-fired generation in certain parts of the nation.  The section below discusses some of the items that go into the decision to fuel switch from coal to natural gas.

The trend by corporations is to demonstrate in some form that they are a green company. Going green can have numerous definitions from a product that is eco-friendly to reducing a company's carbon footprint by use of alternative energy.

What America does with its new found natural gas resources is the pivotal question here. Regardless of the size of the gas fields, none of them can provide an infinite supply of energy. There are more important issues here than creating adequate markets for the natural gas industry.

After Georgian troops entered South Osettia - the brake-away part of Georgia under Russian influence- Russia sent tanks and troops into the region.

The LNG supply will increase next year by over one third of present production with a total estimated supply of over 30 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd).  Qatar gas - a partnership of Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil -, Shell in Nigeria, BP in Indonesia, Gazprom from Sakhalin and Total from Yemen...

High oil and gas prices have rejuvenated Russia under Vladimir Putin.  He is now even emboldened to replay the Khrushchev Cuba game in response to our planned defense shield in European countries adjacent to Russian territories.  Energy is now the weapon, and we should use it forcefully and...