Month: October 2016
Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is a hot topic these days. With the ever-growing increase in population, demand of energy is also increasing everyday. Non-renewable sources are limited, not environment friendly and increase or decrease in production of these sources can have direct result on the inflation. Renewable sources, on the other hand,…
Wind Is the New Corn for Struggling Farmers
Wind energy, the fastest-growing source of electricity in the U.S., is transforming low-income rural areas in ways not seen since the federal government gave land to homesteaders 150 years ago. As commodity prices threaten to reach decade lows and farmers struggle to meet debt payments, wind has become the newest…
De-risking Power Trades in the Age of Renewables
The transformation of North American power markets from the coal-fired past to a renewable future is well underway. For power utilities, independent power producers (IPP) and traders, this new-age energy market — reliant on renewables for baseload power generation — presents challenges that have to be addressed quickly in order…