Energy Update

You are here

Home » Global Read

Unpacking the Home Battery Value Proposition

In recent years, solar has seen an unprecedented rise in installations, both on a large and small scale. Energy storage, however, hasn’t quite kept pace. Though home batteries present significant advantages to households with solar panels, many consumers spring for the panels, seeing the economic and environmental benefit, but choose not to install a home battery to store the unused solar energy they generate.

Utility Renewables Rise, But Fail To Lift All Boats; State Policies Play A Big Role

This just in: Americans are getting more and more of their electricity from renewable sources. Okay, so maybe that isn’t exactly “news” if you follow the sector, but it’s important to underline from time to time regardless.

RPT-Oil funds hold down risk, eye volatility after weak first half

July 8 (Reuters) - Oil's big rebound in the first half of
the year was a squandered opportunity for most hedge funds with
positions in crude, and a surge in volatility is likely to make
it harder for them to call the market in the second half.

China to slow energy project construction, shifts to capacity cuts-Xinhua

BEIJING, July 11 (Reuters) - China will ban the construction
of new coal-based chemical facilities and coal-fired power
plants until 2018 and continue to shed overcapacity in coal
mining and oil refining, state news agency Xinhua reported on
Monday.

South Sudan's former rebel leader says attacked by president's forces, urges calm

NAIROBI, July 11 (Reuters) - South Sudan's vice president
said on Monday his loyalists had been bombarded by forces of
President Salva Kiir, showing he was "not interested in peace",
but the former rebel also called for restraint and said he had
not lost hope for the future.

Idemitsu Kosan's merger talks with founding family end without agreement

TOKYO, July 11 (Reuters) - Talks between Japan's Idemitsu
Kosan Co Ltd and its founding family on Monday did not
yield any agreement regarding the family's opposition to the oil
refiner's proposal to buy rival Showa Shell Sekiyu KK,
the family's lawyer said.

UPDATE 1-Fighting flares again in South Sudan capital after U.N. demand for restraint

JUBA, July 11 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted again in
South Sudan's capital on Monday a day after the U.N. Security
Council told rivals President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek
Machar to rein in their forces and end days of violence that
have left scores dead.

Swiber flags delay in $200 mln preference share subscription

SINGAPORE, July 11 (Reuters) - Swiber Holdings, a
Singapore-based oilfield services firm, said its subsidiary was
seeking legal advice after the payment for a proposed $200
million preference share subscription was delayed.

Mining sector lifts Britain's FTSE to 11-month highs

LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 climbed to
an 11-month high on Monday, helped by expectations of a cut in
interest rates by the Bank of England later this week and a
rally in mining companies.

Solar plane leaves Seville on penultimate leg of round-the-world flight

SEVILLE, Spain, July 11 (Reuters) - An airplane powered
solely by energy from the sun took off from southern Spain early
on Monday on the penultimate leg of the first ever fuel-free
round-the-world flight.

Pages

GET IN TOUCH

  • 1875 I Street NW, International Square, 
       Washington, District Of Columbia, 20006
  • Phone: +1 (888) 317-3839
  • Email: info@mglllc.com

About

Misha Gerhard & Lewis LLC is International Strategic Consulting Firm with an extensive presence in the most rapidly developing regions of the world.

Photos