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  • PwC: Big Demand Meets Tight Money in Power’s Future

    As electric power utilities look ahead, they see the need for major financial investments, but also view a more difficult world in which to raise the needed funds for financing generation and transmission. That’s the conclusion of the 12th annual survey of global power and utility firms by PwC.

  • Securitizing Renewable Energy Loans

    Renewable energy sources have increasingly become a focal point of U.S. regulatory and financial institutions as well as trade associations and legislatures. One area of particular interest is programs that have been established by local and state governments to encourage homeowners to become more energy efficient through the use of Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) loans.

  • The Leadership Dilemma

    When did the term “management” change from a corporate organizational level to be achieved to a leadership model that must be mastered?

  • A Call for Visionary Leadership in Energy

    Along with the global economy, there are significant signs indicating how radically the energy business has changed in the past few years.

  • Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence

    Is the clean energy technology sector doomed because federal spending is sharply dropping?

  • Workplace Drama: Why Behavioral Change Does Not Work

    Do you communicate to manipulate or to change behavior?

  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Blather

    We are hot and heavy into election season, and there is a lot of buzz about “jobs.” We hear about job-killing regulations (mostly from Republicans) and the wonders of green jobs (mostly from Democrats). All this, of course, is aimed at tying favored policy options to something the average voter can understand, the need for […]

  • TREND: U.S., Energy Exporter

    The U.S. has been blessed with enormous quantities of natural resources yet has long been a net energy importer. The shift from global purchaser to global supplier of fossil fuels is accelerating.

  • Left-Right Cabal on Carbon Taxes?

    Washington, D.C., July 14, 2012 — A group of mainstream conservatives and representatives from Washington environmental groups have been meeting over recent weeks to revive the idea of a U.S. carbon tax as a way to combat alleged man-made global warming. The aim is to have a package of proposed laws to bring up when […]

  • Candu Labor Dispute Escalates While Entergy Lockout Ends and ConEd’s Persists

    About 700 nuclear engineers on Monday joined 144 others in a strike that has lasted more than a month, after failing to reach a labor pact with Candu Energy, a subsidiary of Canada’s SNC-Lavalin Group.