The prospect of dramatically higher energy efficiency would impact many facets of the energy industry, but particularly utilities that service regions with federal customers and energy efficiency companies that would address new building codes and other requirements. The recently introduced amendment to the Keystone bill, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015, was a pared…...
Plausible Legislation Would Bolster Oil and Gas, Energy Efficiency Industries The implementation of planned Republican legislation and Obama Administration regulations will have direct impact on utilities, regional regulators and conventional and renewable energy industries in the next year. Passage of the Keystone XL bill would ease crude oil transportation constraints to the lower 48 and…...
Legislation to expedite the liquefied nature gas (LNG) export approval process would allow facilities to more rapidly capitalize on favorable export economics. LNG export economics are also impacted by currently low crude oil prices, and companies are eager to finalize facilities to exploit global LNG price disparities. The federal government regulates and restricts the export…...
Oil volatility will continue to be very strong and the talking heads will inevitably say anything, something and actually nothing. Yes oil rebounded but to what end? Did it really make such a big move? Well if you were a buyer of oil at its low then yes you made a great investment, trade or…...
Executive Summary 2015 will be a showdown over President Obama’s energy legacy through regulatory change and pushback from the 114th Congress, all while looking ahead at the 2016 elections. The outcome will have a dramatic impact on utilities, conventional and renewable energy industries and federal and state government in 2015 and beyond. The recent debates…...
Cleanweb is a term that most people have not heard. Many who have heard this mysterious term do not know what “cleanweb” actually is. Since this has become a growing movement and an important part of today’s energy climate, let’s take a dive into this new term and find out how we can participate. What…...
We have a war going on globally and its flying right under the radar. Oil and the drop in price have created a massive amount of turbulence. The players are many and the alliances are blurred to say the least. While at war in some cases in the traditional manner, many of these countries are…...
Unlimited Energy? Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth. 173,000 terawatts of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. Sounds like a lot but what does that mean? That is a fairly obscure number to most who don’t know what a terawatt is. It consists of more than 10,000 times the world’s total…...
Is this the next major bump in the road or the “new normal”? In 2000, we had the culmination of the dotcom bubble. In 2008, we had the mortgage debacle or what some call the financial crisis. Now we are in what could inevitably be the 2015 fracking meltdown. Most would not refer to this…...
White House Open Data Initiative identifies EnerKnol as a top innovator harnessing data to build U.S. clean energy economy. NEW YORK, May 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — EnerKnol today announced that the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy have selected the company to present its decision support technology at the 2014 White House Energy Datapalooza onWednesday,…...
EnerKnol Founder & CEO, Angelique Mercurio, will speak during the Closing Keynote at the 10th annual CIO Executive Summit happening in midtown Manhattan on May 13, 2014. Ms. Mercurio joins a lineup of leading technology and data executives from globally-recognized organizations such as Thomas Reuters, Colgate-Palmolive, GE, Moody’s, and Dell who will be speaking at the…...