GLG News by Renewable Energy Experts in GLG Member Programs

Wind power continues to grow as a means of generating electricity.Eventually the need to improve dispatching of wind and solar electricity will be needed for these industries to become more than relative niche players.The Iowa Stored Energy Park is a specific example of how wind power dispatching can...

The natural gas extraction is good news for Norway, but like the few decades of North Sea petroleum boom before the decline, so this natural gas bonanza shall, too, pass.  It is reflective of the institutional bias in the natural gas industry and its information sources that this issue is overlooked. At...

Iranian oil revenue is not so much declining as it is getting consumed by growing domestic demand.This demand is due to skyrocketing energy growth in petroleum products and natural gas for the transportation and housing sectors.Compounding this issue is a massive subsidy of retail energy prices, especially...

This latest acquisition by BP continues a trend in oil companies taking serious positions in wind power development.It will be interesting to see whether BP and Shell stay with photovoltaic manufacturing in lieu of wind farm developments. There may be a number of institutional reasons to support...

  We shouldn’t expect a return to cheap oil prices. A strong economy needs to be based on fundamentals, especially an ever increasing productivity.

California utilities have been attempting to get primarily solar renewable energy certificates ("REC's or "green tags") gifted to them at no compensation.The California Public Utility Commission decided against that, saying the REC's belong to the system owners.This decision will help solidify the value...

Spain is poised to lead Mediterranean Europe in being the fast growth market for both solar thermal and photovoltaic installations, taking up the slack from a maturing German market.In addition to Spain's solar and wind resources, plus a Renewable Portfolio Standard and solar feed-in tariff, a national...

Most attention in PV has focused on big systems, but residential new construction is a potentially sizable market.Residential new construction has been relatively ignored due to market fragmentation, but that is changing.The BP Solar-Old Country Roofing partnership may be able to exploit this marke...

Existing buildings are a huge potential market for solar, a fraction of a percent per year penetration meaning billions of revenue.Servicing entities to these buildings like contractors and fuel suppliers have been traditionally hostile to solar power.PriceEnergy may be one of the first to break the...

The exceptionally strong endorsement for windpower by the conservative Audubon Society removes an important though specious argument against windpower.  The industry has been fighting false perceptions about the avian mortality issue for more than two decades.  With this support, the issue...