FIJI has shown leadership and is clearly on the way to having 80 to 90 per cent of its energy needs generated from renewable sources.

Supermarkets Transform Their Unsold Spoiled Food Into Green Energy

Lori Zimmer

Two supermarkets are making lemonade out of lemons the green way—by converting their spoiled food into energy. Grocery chains Ralphs and Food 4 Less (both part of the Kroger Co.) have joined forces with FEED Resource Recovery to make use of the rotten and        

Growing Pains: Unclear Progress Towards the EU 2020 Renewable Energy Targets

Evan Musolino

The European Union (EU) has undoubtedly been one of the global leaders in spurring the advanced development and deployment of renewable energies worldwide. The vision set forth by the Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC – a directive setting continent-wide targets for all EU-27 member states to increase their share of renewable energy in the national energy [...]

Summary: Bernard Weinstein, an economist and associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, opines against a biofuel mandate.

By Bernard Weinstein

The Renewable Fuels Standard, commonly known as...

Oil Supply Shock Will Drive Prices Down

PAR Model

Demand for energy resources has been soft in recent years, due to economic problems in much of the developed world. This brought world demand growth for crude oil negative in 2008 and 2009 (see chart below). In addition, the general drive toward energy efficiency has been slow but steady, including more natural-gas power plants, efficient appliances, fuel-efficient cars, and 100% electric cars. Sluggish demand was interrupted by a spike in demand from emerging markets (in particular, China) in 2010, but that reversed in 2011-12 as China slowed down...

State-owned Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOC) has developed and commercialized a technology for coprocessing nonedible vegetable oil in a refinery diesel hydrotreating unit to make biodiesel.