Gary Hunt, President, Scalable Growth Strategy Advisors helps software, data and information services companies with competitive go to market strategies to meet the needs of the energy vertical. He previously served as VP-Global Analytics & Data at IHS/CERA and Division President at Ventyx/Global Energy Advisors. He can be reached at ghunt@scalablegrowth.com or through Linked-In.
Energy industry appears to have successfully dodged a big Dodd Frank bullet with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) decision July 10, 2012 by a 4-1 vote defining a “swap” for energy transaction purposes as largely exempting any regulatory driven environmental transactions.
Watch out if, in the absence of building new nuclear power plants, we begin to experience the double whammy loss not only of the existing coal fired generation but the retirement of the existing nuclear fleet.
Congress can’t agree on much of anything. Some argue we already have a de facto clean energy standard defined by a majority of the states. But the big winner in this proposed clean energy standard is not wind or solar energy but nuclear power
The markets have spoken declaring natural gas fired generation the power technology of the decade. The markets believe so much in the potential of natural gas generation that the largest category of power plant retirements over the decade is also old gas plants being replaced by new, better ones.