Daniel Yergin
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How Different Will Tomorrow Be? Thinking About The Energy Future
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/16/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The energy business has one of the longest timelines of any industry. Decisions are being made today for oil or natural gas fields that will only begin to flow fifteen years from now. Investors, in the meantime, have to decide where to put their bets on technologies that will take years to come to fruition.
A Double Bubble Drives Rising Oil Production Costs
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/16/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The dramatic run-up in oil prices in recent years has been the subject of much attention and many headlines. What has received far less attention is another increase: the parallel rise in the costs of drilling for oil and building the infrastructure necessary to pump it out of the ground.
Ethanol And Brazil: The New Global Energy Brand?
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/16/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
When it comes to energy, Brazil is on its way to becoming a "global brand." Although the United States recently outpaced Brazil in ethanol production, Brazil is by far the leader in sugar-based ethanol.
Will Innovation Transform Energy?
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/17/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
There has never before been so wide-ranging a drive for technological advance and breakthroughs. It affects every part of the energy industry, whether
one is talking about oil and natural gas, renewables and alternatives or efficiency and demand management.
The impact is evident in the oil and gas industry.
Renewable Electric Power Takes Off
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/17/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
Renewable electric power is beginning to soar. The current surge of activity, which has been accelerating over the last few years, is driven by several factors including environmental and sociopolitical considerations.
Security, Climate And Technology
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/24/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The world today depends on fossil fuels to meet over 80 percent of its energy needs, a simple fact of the way the industrial world has grown up. But dependence brings with it major challenges placing places the United States and the world at an energy crossroads.
The Future Of Electricity-Center Of Gravity Shifting To Asia
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 04/24/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The global electric power landscape is changing fast, and increasingly, the action in it has been shifting to Asia. On average, in each of the last three years, China alone has added as much new generating capacity as all of existing capacity in Texas. The shift to Asia will continue.
Biofuels In The U.S-Just The Facts
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/1/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
Biofuels are hot. But how hot? Here are "just the facts."
Closing The Conservation Gap In Electric Power
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/3/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
Today, as U.S. electric power demand grows and environmental and energy security issues become more urgent, there is a growing concern that the current balance encourages the construction of new power plants rather than investment in the conservation of electric power.
Energy's Challenges
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/10/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The energy challenge certainly ranks at the top of the world's agenda. What makes it particularly difficult to deal with is that it is created by two forces.
Commentary: Yergin Sees Clear Road Ahead For More Fuel-Efficient Cars
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/10/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
This week, legislation will emerge from committee, and almost certainly soon head to the floor of the U.S. Senate. It might not get that much notice in itself, but it ought to, because it tells you how much has changed on energy issues.
California Power Crisis Aftershock: The Potential Modification Of Western Power Contracts
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/22/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
A recent set of decisions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit raises the prospect that market-based rate transactions, including billions of dollars worth of wholesale power contracts, entered into during the US West power crisis may be modified now, more than six years down the road.
China and America Need Not Be Energy Rivals
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 05/22/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
Energy is markedly different from the other controversial matters that will be at the top of the US-Chinese Strategic Economic Dialogue, edition two, meeting this week in Washington.
How Much Oil Is Really Down There? Oil And Gas Reserves Accounting Needs Updating
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 06/1/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
The disclosure of "proved reserves" has been one of the great rituals of the reporting season for oil and gas companies, and one carefully monitored by investors. It's recently taken on even more significance with high and jittery prices, concerns about energy security, and plain fear of running out.
What Does 'Energy Security' Really Mean?
- By Daniel Yergin
- Published 06/6/2007
- Environment
- Unrated
the conclusion of last year's G8 summit in Scotland, Russian President Vladimir Putin said to the other leaders of the G8 industrial nations, "We cannot ignore the question of overcoming poverty - and the fight against terrorism." But "the key issue for the next summit" would be energy security.