The Energy Industry News & Analysis

Jennmar: A Family Affair
Under Tony Calandra’s leadership, Jennmar has developed an impressively diverse portfolio of manufacturing and service companies, several of which carry the Jennmar brand.

Dems Have Deal on Inflation Reduction Act
“The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will make a historic down payment on deficit reduction to fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030,” Schumer and Manchin said.

Mustering the Energy to be a Type I Civilization
In the early years of the Space Age, the Russian Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev conceived of his scale of progress based on energy usage. A Type I civilization, or planetary civilization, can make use of all the energy that reaches its home planet from its home star.

Tidal energy is the next wave in renewables
Systems to harness tidal energy come in three basic forms: barrages, turbines, and fences. Barrages stretch across a tidal basin, say at the mouth of an inlet or a bay. They catch tidal energy coming and going at high tide and low tide and use sluice gates to control the flow of water.
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