Compliance with wind energy requirements results in coal based power plants cycling on and off irregularly causing them to create more harmful emissions than they normally produce.

Study shows that U.S. has enough natural gas trapped in shale rock to supply present needs for 50 years.

Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2009. Previously I listed how I voted in Platt's Top 10 poll, but my list is a bit different from theirs. I have a couple of stories here that they didn't list, and I combined some topics. ...

Thanks to a reader for this story:Cheap Natural Gas Drives Truck AlternativesNEW YORK (Dow Jones) - If you order a beer in New York, the odds are growing that it was delivered by a truck running on natural gas.Beer distributors are among a growing ...

Politicians are battling over whether to continue using coal as the primary energy provider or to give more power to natural gas.

In case you missed the story yesterday in the Economist:How long till the lights go out?North Sea gas has served Britain well, but supply peaked in 1999. Since then the flow has fallen by half; by 2015 it will have dropped by two-thirds. By 2015 ...

Before I took a recent trip to Canada, I opened up the floor for questions. Getting them answered has taken longer than I intended. Fortunately, other readers answered a lot of them in the comments of that thread. So I have sifted through the list, trying to find questions ...

In my recent post - How Much Natural Gas to Replace Gasoline? - I mentioned that it is quite expensive to convert a gasoline-powered vehicle to natural gas. If you drive a tremendous number of miles each year - as many fleets do - the conversion will pay for ...

I Took This Picture of a CNG Bus on a Recent Trip to D.C.You may have seen the news ...

A couple of articles, both at Seeking Alpha, got me to thinking about whether it might be time to trade in my Petrobras (PBR) stock for something in the natural gas sector. From the first of the two articles:Natural Gas Should Get a Boost from ...