While the examples of Japan, China, and India show the promise of rapidly emerging energy economies built on efficiency and renewables, Germany—the world’s number four economy and Europe’s number one—has lately provided an impressive model of what a well-organized industrial society can achieve.   READ MORE >>

Here’s a cross-section of the energy conversations that took center stage last week:   READ MORE >>

NRG Energy's vision for the future involves consumers disconnecting from their electric utility. What could possibly possess NRG to begin taking customers off the grid, launching a veritable coup d’etat against not only electric utilities, but against its own business models?   READ MORE >>

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The fossil fuel economy we've created and upon which our prosperity up until now has been built has the dangerous side effect we call global warming.   READ MORE >>