- The latest issue of Foreign Affairs is out and is filled with climate and energy related issues: an analysis of the upcoming Copenhagen Conference,  “Black Carbon” emissions, Cap and Trade versus a Carbon Tax, and a contrarian forecast for an extended period of low oil prices.  We expect some insightful commentary from this well-respected [...]

– Things are heating up with respect to curbing speculation in oil markets.  The FSA in the UK and CFTC here in the US are both back at trying to de-speculate oil markets.  While the WSJ and Economist fight it out over just how much of a role speculation has actually played in the [...]

5 pages on BLM geothermal auction July 2009.
This link leads to a document we created with details of a recent auction by the BLM of geothermal leases in Nevada, California, and Utah.
The auction raised $9 million.  We dug up some detailed analysis from the Geothermal Energy Association’s weekly newsletter (first two pages) as well as [...]

Today’s New York Times was heavily tilted to renewable energy, both purposely and not:
Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide: The lack of a national grid is a common complaint/refrain for renewable power developers: optimal generating sites are located far from end users. This is an interesting scoop, then, from Matt Wald on [...]