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NRG Doubles Down on Distributed Generation

NRG Energy's vision for the future involves consumers disconnecting from their electric utility. What could possibly possess NRG to begin taking customers off the grid, launching a veritable coup d’etat against not only electric utilities, but against its own business models?

Breaking New England’s Natural Gas Addiction

This year I’m putting 60% of my retirement fund into Apple stock. I reason its recent string of product successes should continue unabated for the next 20 years, creating large returns with little risk. What could possibly go wrong, right?

Hot Air About Cheap Natural Gas

Would you build a buy-and-hold financial portfolio from only junk bonds and no Treasuries by considering only price, not also risk? Not for long. Yet…

Good Natural Gas News Today, But What About Tomorrow?

Recent articles have posited that natural gas is so cheap and plentiful that it not only challenges coal as our dominant source of electricity in the short term, but will also threaten the development of renewables in the long-term.