Feed The Grid

Ontario's concrete industry has been enjoying the benefits of the province's efforts to construct more wind energy and turbines. Concrete has been the material of choice to use as the foundation for wind towers, according the NextEra Energy, one of the largest ...

Author Rob Bailey says that biodiesel made from vegetable oil was worse for the climate than fossil fuels and biofuels in general are a more expensive source of energy than fossil fuels. From this month EU law demands that 5% of the UK's transport fuel is ...

The government recently reduced the solar feed-in tariff—the guaranteed price utilities must pay to approved solar projects for a period of 20 years under Japanese law—by 10%, to 37.8 yen ($0.39) per kilowatt-hour for projects approved starting in the year ...

Palm dropped on speculation that a decline in crude oil prices will reduce the demand for biofuels, which use the cooking oil as feedstock.

The targets have led to increased demand for biodiesel made from used cooking oil, rapeseed, or animal fats, and corn ethanol from outside the EU. However, the Chatham House report backs claims by ... It adds that production can drive farming into areas such as rainforest or peatland that store large amounts of CO2, meaning the indirect emissions arising from biofuel development could outweigh any greenhouse gas savings associated with the fuel

We in the United States, the Euro-zone, and Japan are already past peak oil demand. Oil demand has to do with how much oil we can afford. Many of the developed nations are not able to outbid the developing nations when it comes to the world's limited oil ...

Oil demand has to do with how much oil we can afford, Tverberg writes, and many of the developed nations are not able to outbid the developing nations when it comes to the world’s limited oil supply.

AS the cost of living continues to bite, Queenslanders have spent a staggering amount of money on solar system installations in the past two years.

We in the United States, the Euro-zone, and Japan are already past peak oil demand. Oil demand has to do with how much oil we can afford . Many of the developed nations are not able to outbid the developing nations when it comes to the world’s limited oil supply.

Remember "peak oil"? The theory, popularized in the past decade, said global crude-oil production would eventually reach its zenith and oil prices would have only one way to go: up. So much for that idea. Oil production continues to climb, and the latest ...

The recent support in the corn market sparked by the midweek USDA supply and demand report has drawn support back into corn markets. But the typical follow the leader relationship in the ethanol market is missing.

It's about time Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty has acknowledged concerns about the process to change Connecticut's existing renewable energy portfolio [April 12, Business, "State Hit For Speed On Proposed ...

“Eighty percent of Ontario's generation of electricity from wind power occurs at times and seasons so far out of phase with demand that the entire output is surplus and is exported at a substantial loss,” the Fraser report says. “Data from the Independent ...

Brazil is seeking to boost prices at electricity auctions and spur demand for power from coal- and natural gas-fired plants, after developers agreed to sell wind energy at low prices that made fossil fuel less competitive.