Russell Gold

In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the natural forces that could power America’s future. Russell Gold’s Superpower tells the story of Michael Skelly whose innovations, struggles, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway …

The question of electric being cleaner than gasoline is irrelevant if the goal is to save the world!

EVs produce fewer emissions overall than their gas-powered counterparts, but there are caveats

The state extended peak prices for more than a day longer than needed, said the independent monitor, which is recommending the charges be reversed.

Prices skyrocketed in the state’s energy market during the blackouts, resulting in billions of dollars in extra bills that consumers, cities and businesses must somehow pay.

Warren Buffett’s firm is pitching Texas lawmakers on a plan to spend $8.3 billion to build power plants that would run during electricity emergencies, a month after the state suffered devastating blackouts.

Pockets of Texas entered their fourth day of widespread power outages amid an extended winter storm.

On the menu today: Texas powers down, debt and more debt, government gets in the way of COVID testing, food, and windows.

After a decade of rapidly falling costs, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery is poised to overhaul the car industry, disrupt the power grid and challenge the dominance of oil and gas.

World leaders welcomed the return of the U.S. to the Paris Agreement, but it won’t be easy to reassert global leadership and meet targets to reduce their carbon footprints.

Meet MIT Sloan’s MBA Class of 2022 through in-depth profiles on a sample of the extraordinary students, their stories, and their dreams

The shift comes as global energy demand is expected to fall by 5% in 2020, a pullback not seen since World War II, according to the International Energy Agency.

En+ Group, the world’s largest aluminum maker outside China, wants to get a financial benefit for the low-carbon metal it produces at its hydroelectricity-powered smelters in Siberia.

U.S. medical centers have reported 5,000-plus cases of patients likely catching the coronavirus once admitted for other conditions, a problem that’s adding to the strain of the pandemic itself. At one facility, four staff members died.

Foreign-born physicians are on the front lines in the fight against the pandemic—and if they get sick or die, their families could face deportation.

And a new poll says voters prioritize an experienced VP for Joe Biden over gender and race.

“The men keep coming back because they feel there is not enough goodness in everyone’s heart today,” he said. “It’s not that we get sentimental. I just got a bunch of guys who are willing to do it.”

Wind and solar farms are attracting interest from investors hungry for low-risk, stable-yield opportunities at a time of extraordinary market volatility.

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A book by Russell Gold on the US wind industry, and a bumper crop of other energy books. Happily, for my annual book review, a number of energy books have come across my radar in the past couple o…