Areas of Expertise:
Chris Nelder is an energy analyst, freelance journalist, and consultant who has written about energy and investing for over a decade. He is an energy expert who likes to think about the future and how we can negotiate the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. He is the author of two books on energy and investing, Profit from the Peak and Investing in Renewable Energy, and is a frequent media guest. He has appeared on BBC TV, Fox Business, CNN national radio, Australian Broadcasting Corp., CBS radio, France 24, and online media including Yahoo Tech Ticker, Financial Sense, StockTwits, TheStreet.com, and the Washington Post. His writing has appeared in investing newsletters, the Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Futurist, among others, and is a columnist for SmartPlanet.
Recent Comments by Chris Nelder
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For SmartPlanet this week, I put President Obama’s new climate plan into context of the data on U.S. carbon dioxide emis"
Looking Beyond the President’s Climate Speech - "In my last post on the energy-water nexus, I surveyed some recent literature in search of hard hard data on exactly how much water it takes to produce"
Can We Make Energy Policy Without Water Policy? - "Coincidentally (or not), my column this week was about exactly that subject:
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How do the GOP and Democratic Energy Platforms Stack Up? - "I dug up a fair bit of data on this subject for my regular column this week. See: "
Water-Energy Nexus Debate Heats Up - "I forgot to mention: The US Army should look closely at biomass (wood pellets) as a fuel for on-site power generation with CHP. If the proximity to fe"
Encouraging Grid Security with Distributed Generation - "[img]http://media.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/renew-eco-1.png[/img][img]http://media.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/renew-eco-2"
Encouraging Grid Security with Distributed Generation - "Rep. Bartlett,
I've been a fan of yours ever since I heard you speak at the ASPO 2005 conference. This bill looks like a good approach. My comment"
Encouraging Grid Security with Distributed Generation - "It's probably pointless to say so, again, but: A 20-year national feed-in tariff would be so much simpler and effective, as most of the rest of the de"
Impacts of the Section 1603 Program - "@Joel: Yes, it's certainly true that technology and economics shift potential resources to proved reserves over time. It's also true that predicting t"
Enthusiasm and Concern over Natural Gas Exports - "Before considering long-term committments to LNG exports, we should understand three things clearly: 1) How much gas we actually have, 2) How much we "
Enthusiasm and Concern over Natural Gas Exports