Future Coal Supplies - more, not less!

There has been a growing trend toward predicting an imminent peak to the production of coal. Just this last week Nature carried an article ...

P54. Pick Points

So here it is the weekend, and I would usually be putting up Saturday Pick Points, and the Saturday post, with Sunday’s Tech Talk in the win...

Making Decisions at a local Utility.

It has become almost routine to glance over at Energy Shortage , and see the same names of places around the world where there is insufficie...

Rural Electric Systems

The world is in recession. And with the drop in demand for different fuels, it becomes a little harder to see when we will return to the te...

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...

Load Shedding, Blackouts or becoming more vulnerable

Load Shedding is one of those terms that has started popping up in more stories than it used to. Mainly they are stories that relate to dis...