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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Officially, U.S. electricity demand in 2009 is expected to be up about 1.2%. But well-known electric utility analyst Daniel Scotto’s own forecast is for demand growth to be no better than 0.2% this year. Moreover, Scotto told EnergyTechStocks.com in an exclusive interview, the U.S. electric utility industry could experience negative growth for the first time since the 1950s. …

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Because of the upcoming IPO for Changing World Technologies (See this story at Seeking Alpha) the articles that I wrote on the company are getting quite a bit of traffic. I thought I would bump them to the top for a review of who they are, what they do, and where things went wrong for them. The …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Posted: For the Week of January 26-31 As reporters well know, the best stories often hide in plain sight, slowly building over months or even years until, inevitably, something spectacular happens that catapults a story onto the front page. When the big bang finally occurs, it often sets off a big sector stock rally, which is why investors should …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com `Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #1 – Put Oil Companies to Work on Geothermal Energy ‘Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #2 – Quicken Deployment of Stop-Start, Mild Hybrid ‘Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #3 – Adopt the Berkeley Solar Financing Model ‘Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #4 – Redirect Corn …

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog The following guest post is by Bob Findlay, a self-employed open source software engineer who lives on a small farm just outside Toronto. —————————- On 07 Apr 26 an Oil Drum blogger named Squalish (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2499) wrote a response to a debate about government’s role in climate change policy. In that piece Squalish described an idea whereby all CO2 …

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog The Dodge Circuit Electric Vehicle Regular readers know that I am hopeful that electric cars can start to become one of our transportation options in the next few years. There are several reasons for this. First and foremost, it is because there are so many different options for making electricity. We currently make it primarily from …

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I wanted to just have one housekeeping post here at the beginning of the year covering a wide range of topics: From posting etiquette to themes to my internal debate over whether to proceed with a book. So here goes. First, some reminders about posting etiquette here. While I encourage debate and disagreement, I discourage gratuitous insults …

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Tis the season for Top 10 stories, and here are what I think were the Top 10 energy stories of the year. 1. Unprecedented volatility in the energy markets Oil prices raced to nearly $150 a barrel, and then fell to the $30’s by year end. This marks the highest ever prices for oil, followed by the lowest …

Submitted by New Energy News Blog Synergy: A combination that produces more than the sum of its parts. Doctoral candidate Eric Stoutenburg of Stanford University has done data collection and calculations demonstrating that combined offshore wind and wave power projects make a New Energy synergy. Building a hybrid wind/wave ocean installation increases the amount of energy captured, the value of the …

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Get ready to make some notes on which energy investments should do well in 2009 and beyond based on what leading experts forecast in 2008 – predictions that have gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the media in the crush of the global credit crisis. #1 – President-elect Obama, in a cable TV interview on MSNBC on the …