Power shortages in India and Pakistan

The recent publication of the EIA review of Shale Gas has caught the world’s attention, and led to the perception that the coming decades ma...

Indigenous Energy - Pakistan, India and Bangladesh

Yesterday and this morning I spent my time helping clear up the damage from a storm that hit our town over the summer. We were away, and se...

Conventional Coal Production is rising

Gregor MacDonald had a couple of interesting charts on coal demand that should get greater attention. The first was the relative pace at w...

And welcome to 2010

Well I trust that New Year’s Night went well for you, and tht you are all set for a Prosperous New Year. But what of the future for energy ...

Pakistan load shedding, IPI, TAPI and what chance of change

While for many in the West the thought of fuel shortages is a “sometime” future thing, and there is enough energy supply around that there i...

More on Turkmenistan and gas sales

A couple of days ago I was writing of the promise inherent in a meeting between the Turkmen President, Gerbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Presid...

Energy Shortages, the Monsoon, India and Pakistan

The international impacts from a lack of sufficient power are often missed when debate swirls about the price of oil and gas, and the need t...

P61. Pick Points

A few stories of interest to start off the week. When I wrote about the EIA Energy Conference last week I had promised that I would make a b...

P49. Pick Points

Sometimes there are situations that don’t know when to quit. So it is with the Ukraine:Russia dispute over gas. Today Prime Minister Putin...

P38. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Until recently if you had tried to talk to me about solar cars, I would have only been able to think...

Coal in South Asia

Over at Salon, Joseph Romm has a column today explaining the deep credentials of the current Administration team that will be addressing t...

P23. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen, or so, stories of interest. Time was when the word Audit would strike fear, since it was (and perhaps still is) associated wit...

P21. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. When the normal supplies of fuel are cut-off, as electricity has become intermittent in Pakistan, an...

P20. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. So is the Russian:Ukrainian story over for another year, or ten ? Certainly it has lost the press...