Category: Electricity
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Silver and Copper to Benefit from Global Electrification Push / Commodities / Electricity
By: MoneyMetals
Precious metals markets are making modest advances in this final trading week of May. U.S. markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
During the extended weekend, millions more Americans compared to last year are expected to hit the roads for travel. They will be confronted with pain at the pump as gasoline prices have risen to over $3.00 per gallon in most parts of the country.
Other signs of a serious inflation problem are building following the massive cash injections into the economy by the Federal Reserve and the Joe Biden administration.
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Electricity Prices on the Rise / Personal_Finance / Electricity
By: Dumitru_Midon
Electricity is not really something any of us can do without. Whether you have a tariff or a prepaid meter the money soon seems to go, and the media is continually reminding us that prices are going up. Consumers are feeling badly let down by Ofgem, the industry regulators who put a cap in place to ensure that variable tariffs could only rise to a certain point, and then moved the cap higher leaving people feeling frustrated and angry.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 10, 2017
Renewable Energy’s Problem and the Solution / Companies / Electricity
By: Richard_Mills
The electric vehicle (EV) market, indeed the entire energy storage market, is at the start of an at least decade long major transition.
Why would I think that? Well…
- Electric cars deliver full torque from a standstill so they have impressive acceleration. They are fun to drive!
- Electric cars are quiet, there is no combustion, no muffler.
- Electric cars do not use explosive fuel, there is no gas tank.
- Electric cars are cheaper to operate, electricity being cheaper than gasoline.
- Electric cars are also cheaper to maintain than combustion systems. Having far fewer parts makes the car less complex, easier and cheaper to maintain – there’s no ignition, exhaust, timing or cooling systems.
- Electric cars can be plugged in at home and you wake up with a fully charged battery every day.
- No more getting ‘hosed’ at the gas station, not even the day before a long weekend when combustion engine car owners are lining up.
- Road trips have currently been extended to over 400 km on a single charge.
- A network of charging stations is being built with potential recharge times as low as two minutes.
- Old batteries can and will be recycled. Current technology saves a minimum of 70 percent on CO2 emissions involved in creating lithium-ion batteries from scratch.
- Zero tail pipe emissions.
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Energy Foreign Ownership Translates into Higher Electric Bills / Companies / Electricity
By: BATR
What exactly is a public utility? If you listen to the government officials in New York State, a foreign company is just dandy and will qualify from the Public Service Commission as a provider of electricity. While this may be old news, the continued adverse fallout from foreign ownership can no longer be flittered away. The latest approval of rate increases goes as an example of how the entire political favoritism system operates. The Buffalo N.Y. News reports, You’re likely to see higher electric bills soon.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
How Much Energy Does The Super Bowl Use? / Commodities / Electricity
By: OilPrice_Com
In the pantheon of American culture, no event is more iconic and distinctly American than the Super Bowl. Like all things American, the Super Bowl is huge, expensive, and a source of incredible passion for fans. Just running a 30-second commercial to the more than 100 million people that watch the game costs nearly $5 million.So how much electricity and energy go into putting on the Super Bowl?
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Just How Unreliable Is the U.S. Electricity Grid? / Companies / Electricity
By: Investment_U
Sean Brodrick writes: Editor’s Note: If you’ve read some of Sean Brodrick’s recent articles, you know how much of a threat cyberattacks currently pose the U.S. This week’s chart comes from Sean’s most recent report, “Smart Grid Security: Cash In on These Four Companies as They Prepare to Secure Our Nation.” To read the full report and learn more about the companies poised to profit from this situation, click here. - Rachel Gearhart, Managing Editor
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
America Will Go Dark... Unless These Companies Come to the Rescue / Companies / Electricity
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Over the next two decades in the United States, it’s going to cost $2 trillion to keep the lights on.
We’re talking about repairs and upgrades to the nation’s electrical grid, which means some of the best stocks to buy now are the companies that do that sort of work.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Lenin's Goelro And The Myth Of Total Electrification / Politics / Electricity
By: Andrew_McKillop
LENIN AND THE GOELRO
Announcing the Goelro plan on 21 February 1920, Vladimir Lenin said that communism was to politics what electricity is for the economy, saying: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country”. Without total electrification “industry cannot be developed” and for Lenin, the plan was even a bulwark against barbarism, ignorance and disease, and a silver bullet for Russian recovery from the ravages of WWar I and the October Revolution.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Oil Companies Shifting To Electric Gold / Commodities / Electricity
By: Andrew_McKillop
PURE AND SIMPLE ECONOMICS
Outside the US, Canada, China, Australia, India, South Africa, Indonesia and a certain number of other countries, electricity has become a highly valued asset for the financial strategy of leading energy companies – starting with Big Oil. In the highest-priced region for electricity – the EU – Eurostat gives the average price for household consumers as 11.9 euro cents (15.5 US cents) per kWh in 2012 pricing electricity at around $248 per barrel of oil equivalent.
Friday, July 05, 2013
How to Profit From Africa’s $300 Billion Electricity Boom / Companies / Electricity
By: Money_Morning
Greg Madison writes: President Obama is wrapping up a wide-ranging trip to Africa this week, one in which he talked about everything from human rights, the triumphs of Nelson Mandela, a return to growth in Zimbabwe and the prospects of an African renaissance.
But it was his comments about access to electricity that should have drawn the most attention. The President is setting the stage for a huge leap in Africa's standard of living - and most people probably didn't notice.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
US Power Grid Vulnerable to Just About Everything / Commodities / Electricity
By: OilPrice_Com
As Washington hunts ill-defined al-Qaeda groups in the Middle East and Africa, and concerns itself with Iran's eventual nuclear potential, it has a much more pressing problem at home: Its energy grid is vulnerable to anyone with basic weapons and know-how.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The End Of Oil And The Coming Electric Economy / Commodities / Electricity
By: Andrew_McKillop
To be sure, rumours of the impending death of oil are exaggerated and anticipate trends - but since 2001 the trend continues. Using IEA data, in 1973 the OECD countries sourced 53% of their total energy supply from oil, underlining that the post-2001 trend is anything but new.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Renewable Energy Could Cause Your Electric Bill to Plummet in 2013 / Commodities / Electricity
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes:
As we come to the end of an election campaign cycle, something else will be ending as well.
Wind subsidies.
A poster child for the ongoing debate over government support for renewable energy, the wind subsidy will expire at the end of 2012. Amidst the fog and din of a political war, Congress is not going to renew it.
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Friday, September 07, 2012
Will US Face Power Blackouts as Drought Hits Electricity Generation? / Commodities / Electricity
By: OilPrice_Com
Well, its official - the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate to extreme drought.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center's "" report, "Based on the Palmer Drought Index, severe to extreme drought affected about 38 percent of the contiguous United States as of the end of July 2012, an increase of about 5 percent from last month... About 57 percent of the contiguous U.S. fell in the moderate to extreme drought categories (based on the Palmer Drought Index) at the end of July... According to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor, about 63 percent of the contiguous U.S. (about 53 percent of the U.S. including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) was classified as experiencing moderate to exceptional (D1-D4) drought at the end of July."
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Investing in Smart Grid Technology: Two Stocks to Power Up Your Portfolio / Companies / Electricity
By: Money_Morning
G.S. Early writes:
There's a saying that goes, when you lose the Internet it's like 1979 but when you lose power it's like 1879.
For a while, we actually lived through it when a big swath of the mid-Atlantic lost power in July. Let me tell you, it was ugly.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Crazy World Of Smart Grids And Carbon Capture / Politics / Electricity
By: Andrew_McKillop
While the oil-intensive but deindustrialized countries of the West show mounting signs of stress at the prospect of more and further oil price rises, and China moves ever onward on its oil-intensive industrial path racking up huge trade surpluses while paying for all the oil it wants, the twin sideshow of smart grids and carbon capture still has some headroom, in some countries. The main problem, however, is that CCS is almost certainly impossible, and smart grids will be fantastically expensive.