Feed The Grid

In a recent post (Peak Oil Demand is Already a Huge Problem), I showed the following estimate of future energy consumption. Figure 1. One view of future energy consumption for the world as a whole. History is based on BP's 2012 Statistical Review of World ...

Despite a few daily spikes in the market, the ethanol to RBOB gasoline price spread has narrowed through May. This continues to focus on tighter supplies and growing summer demand.

Supplies of ethanol, a gasoline additive, “are now as low as they usually are coming out of the end of the driving season in late August,” Jerry Gidel, the chief grain-market analyst at Rice Dairy LLC in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. “There is little ...

That was followed by the weekly Energy Information Administration report showing ethanol production accelerated last week. These suggest underlying corn demand remains strong despite the elevated cost. July corn jumped 18.5 cents to $6.185/bushel by ...

With an on-going demand to try and reduce emissions from the transport sector, one company, Alset Global, has managed to open a new window for automotive manufacturers to think about how they can incorporate a hydrogen fuel supply system into their ...

The underlying trend in energy and commodity prices seems to be only upwards under the influence of gradually rising demand in emerging markets and supply constraints in both renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Increasing energy needs can create opportunities for technology and innovation.

W ith a rich wind resource, massive renewable energy demand and access to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator and PJM Interconnection markets, Illinois has emerged as one of the nation's most important states for wind power.

Focusing on hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle research could help SA achieve its target of harnessing 25% of the global market, according to a Mail & Guardian report. It says this would spur demand for platinum, which is used in the cell, Science and ...

The demand for alternative energy is becoming increasingly more prominent and production companies are responding by turning their focus onto mobile power and back up generators. With emergency situations in mind, Intermountain Wind and Solar are ...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) plans to invest as much as 50 billion yen ($487 million) in renewable energy projects in Japan in the next five years, tapping demand for electricity produced from solar and wind-power generators.

Imagine a world where leftover corn, wheat and wood chips could power your car.That's the aim of cellulosic ethanol, a budding sector of the renewable fuel industry that finds itself struggling to reassert itself in a world of renewed popularity for oil and gas. The process aims to transform agriculture waste, most of which would normally be discarded, into a renewable source of fuel

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) should not support Sarawak’s plans to build more mega-dams in Sarawak, says SAVE Rivers. MIRI: Save Sarawak Rivers Network (SAVE Rivers) is demanding that the International Hydropower Association (IHA) stop supporting the Sarawak state government and the state-owned energy utility Sarawak Energy Berhad(SEB)’s plans to build at least 12 additional

They said their bill would end imports of sugar cane ethanol from Brazil, which EPA allows, to meet an increasing portion of the RFS mandates; more properly align ethanol supplies with demand to mitigate blend wall impacts; and soften RFS's harmful effects ...

Genscape's QAP-A RIN replacement mechanism is further backed by the company's multi-billion dollar parent company, Daily Mail and Group Trust (DMGT). As the biodiesel industry evaluates the impact of the EPA's NPRM, the demand for biodiesel A-RINs ...