BP’s chief economist, Spencer Dale, is perhaps one of those for who the old EF Hutton ad applies: when Spencer Dale speaks, people should listen. Thoughtful, substantive, and often incisive about what has happened, is happening, and might/potentially could happen in the energy sector. Dale’s presentations aren’t only substantive, but articulately engaging and done in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Energy Forecasting'
BP’s “Stair Step” approach to coal and renewables in the electricity sector?
June 15th, 2018 · 1 Comment
Tags: coal · electricity · Electrification · Energy · Energy Forecasting
New EIA forecast subtitled: We are EFFed …
February 6th, 2018 · 1 Comment
The latest Energy Information Administration (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook has been released and one’s hope, on first glance, is that this forecast is just as off as so much of energy forecasting has been because, if this is accurate, the simplest summary of this might be: The United States and humanity is EFFed when it […]
Tags: economics · Energy Forecasting · energy information administration
When it comes to renewable energy forecasting, Japan’s forecasting follows world lead
January 19th, 2018 · 1 Comment
While many reasons exist for this, a simple reality: every single major forecasting institution (both public and private) has consistently, since roughly the turn of the century, under forecast future progress in solar and wind energy. (See after fold for a sampling of the literature on this.) Forecasts have consistently (and often quite significantly) projected […]
Tags: analysis · economics · Energy · Energy Forecasting · energy information administration · solar