Pacific Gas & Electric Co. decided to close its Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant because its baseload power—often cited as nuclear's best asset—doesn't fit into the dynamic grid California is developing, a PG&E executive said today at the U.S.…
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The forces driving clean energy are likely to continue progressing regardless of efforts by President-elect Donald Trump to reverse them, a leading expert in energy policy said last week at Stanford University.
"I’m not saying it’s a good thing.…
After studying more than 22,500 ingredients for batteries, Energy Department researchers have settled on two prototypes they believe can surpass lithium-ion at much lower cost, the project's director announced.
The Joint Center for Energy Storage…
Donald Trump's promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will need some gaping holes for natural-gas pipelines if Trump is also to keep his promises to grow the fossil-fuel industries and export more energy.
"As for President-elect Trump’s stated goal…
The Obama legacy wasn't built in a day, and it will take Donald Trump more than a day to tear it down, despite his promise to rescind many of President Obama's actions on day one.
Trump can rescind Obama's executive actions with a stroke of the pen,…
A fierce competitor of both coal and renewables, shale gas has done at least one favor for solar and wind, according to a Harvard economist: it has demonstrated that the American energy system can accommodate sudden and massive influxes of…
Republicans and Democrats both have reasons for perpetuating the idea of a "war on coal," energy experts said this week, but the decline in coal's fortunes stems largely from competition with natural gas.
"Both sides have a vested interest in the…
Climate change is the one phenomenon that could overcome public opposition and economic obstacles to nuclear power, a former director of Argonne National Laboratory said Friday.
"In principle I don't think there's a real obstacle to" building a new…
The transition from fossil fuels to clean energy is so established already that it would be difficult to reverse it, an official from the White House Office of Management and Budget said Monday.
And companies representing most of the world's capital…
Research may be toppling one of the strongest objections to renewable energy: that wind and solar are not reliable enough to support the grid 24-7-365, so they need fossil and nuclear backup.
Scientists seem to be finding solutions to the variability…
