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We love electric vehicles (EVs) in California and we want that love to spread. Why? It isn’t because of the cool factor — though, believe me, EVs like the Tesla are undoubtedly cool. Instead, it’s because these cars can offer significant benefits to the environment, electric grid, and economy.

A disruptive innovation is one that helps create a new market by improving a product in an unforeseen manner, thereby “disrupting” the existing market. Today’s disruptive technologies—from solar photovoltaics (PV) and battery storage to fuel cells and wind turbines—are transforming the electric utility industry, according to a report released by th

The Russian Prime Minister Nikolai Medvedev has amended Russia’s federal law on the electric power industry. Ordinance No47 lays out a number of measures aiming to stimulate renewable energy sales in the national retail market.

Dangote Group plans to commission a new $9bn refinery in Lagos, Nigeria, by the end of 2017, giving a major boost to refining capacity in Africa.

A land claim brought against South Africa’s largest sugar farmer threatens to stop a 1.1 billion rand ($90 million) renewable-energy project that will produce electricity by burning leftover cane leaves and tops.

Lightweight metals producer Alcoa is planning to sell its aluminum unit Suralco in Suriname, South America, as part of its strategy to review upstream capacity.

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology have developed a new cobalt catalyst that selectively transforms propane to propene and hydrogen.

Examining the gasoline seasonality switch from winter to summer specification and blending demand; and where US gasoline strength has impacted European markets.

It's the middle of March, and we’ve caught our breath enough to share this listing of five big oil topics our oil editors and analysts worldwide think are among the most important.

(Wed, 18 Mar 2015) The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a free data add-in for Microsoft Excel for Windows that builds on the well-known Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) add-in and allows users to find, download, and update EIA's energy data and FRED's economic data directly in any Excel spreadsheet.

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