Gary Hunt is President, Scalable Growth Strategy Advisors, an independent energy technology and information services adviser and a partner in Tech & Creative Labs, a disruptive innovation software collaborative of high tech companies focused on the energy vertical. He served as VP-Global Analytics & Data at IHS/CERA; global Division President at Ventyx, now an ABB company; and Assistant City Manager-Austin Texas responsible for Austin Energy and Austin Water.
North America’s oil & gas production growth is the envy of the world. From the Alberta oil sands to shale plays across the US, we…
It was no surprise that China responded to the US decision to impose countervailing tariff duties on sale of imported photovoltaic panels from China. We…
Cyber terrorism is the nightmare scenario for the energy industry. Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) are the weapons of choice. In the ‘good old days’…
The convergence of forces creating profound changes in domestic energy production is being driven by technology, globalization, demographic changes and by economies turning things upside…
In Medieval times one form of dispatching miscreants was called “pressing”. The punishment involved piling stones on top of the offender one at a time…
Clean energy is something everyone is ‘for’. Few people are in favour of dirty energy. But the problem is the definition of what is clean…
“Low Prices, Always Low Prices” that is the tag line of one of the world’s largest retailers. That may be why Wal-Mart is one of…
The beaten and bruised US coal industry got up off the floor from the body blows of US EPA’s regulations and got back in the…
The US Energy information Administration (EIA) released its updated Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) May 8, 2012. The overview calls for falling crude oil prices,…
The success of unconventional oil and gas production from shale formation is reshaping the US energy industry and may yet prove to be a major…
Global oil prices are driven by a ‘rule of thumb’ that suggests prices will go up when the spare capacity of oil available on any…
In both the EU and the US carbon policy correctness has run its course having been discredited by scandal, the persistence of scientific method, and…
The impacts of higher oil and gasoline prices are beginning to ripple across the economy. Wells Fargo Economics reported today that higher energy prices increased…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is trying to avoid being drawn into the political battle over the regulatory agenda being pursued by the US EPA…
The electric power industry is driven by boom and bust cycles as market fundamentals and volatility sends signals to market participants to speed up or…
The news out of Detroit had all the feel of a wake. GM announced that it was suspending production of the Chevy Volt idling its…
Every husband has been there. It is not a good place to be. But when you are the former President of the United States and…
Our world is a ‘funk’—again over global oil price spikes caused by concerns about conflict between Iran and Israel drawing the US into a war,…
Technology and global competition are profoundly impacting our energy future. The evidence is all around us in wind and solar energy advances, horizontal drilling and…
President Barack Obama’s FY2013 budget includes $27.2 billion for the Department of Energy. US DOE says the budget priorities are focused on the ‘all-of-the-above’ energy…