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Energy Policy and the Adoption of Renewables

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Craig Shields — 1 Comment ↓

Renewable Energy World does a good job at tracking the adoption of clean energy at all levels, including continental. Here’s an article that explains why Europe is unlikely to achieve its goal of 20% penetration of renewables by 2020. While…

Tagged with: adoption of clean energy, clean energy replacement of fossil fuels, energy policy, Europe unlikely to achieve its renewable energy goal, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels artificially cheap, fully dispatchable renewable energy, grid parity, Renewable Energy World, solar energy, subsidizing oil companies, Wind Energy
Posted in Renewables - Politics

Fuel Economy Standards – Getting Trickier As the Years Go By

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Craig Shields — 4 Comments ↓

Those of us old enough to remember can recall the day when cars sold in the U.S. – even new cars — didn’t require seat belts. And the debate here was fierce; public safety advocates had their reports detailing how…

Tagged with: Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, American Lung Association, American Petroleum Institute, Association of Global Automakers, auto industry, Big Auto and Big Oil no longer completely joined at the hip, CAFE standards, catalytic converters, clean diesel, comprehensive costs of fossil fuels, electric transportation, energy and transportation, environmental horrors of electricity from coal, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EVs, externalities of fossil fuels, fuel economy standards, gasoline prices, Jon Lesage’s newsletter “Green Auto Market”, low-sulfur gasoline, lower sulfur content, reduce tailpipe emissions, rules to make gasoline cleaner, stricter limits from tailpipes of cars, Tier 3
Posted in Electric Vehicles

The Most Common Motivation for Ending Renewable Energy Subsidies: Greed

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Craig Shields — 2 Comments ↓

In this piece I just wrote on economic incentives for wind, I suppose I should have pointed out this obvious fact: most of the people calling for an end to the subsidies for wind are, in one form or another,…

Tagged with: Duke Energy, energy policy, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, global climate change, incentives for wind, North Carolina Rep. Mike Hagen, repealing Ohio’s RPS, subsidies for wind, The Heartland Institute, ultra-conservative Grover Norquist, Wind Energy
Posted in Fossil Fuels

What's the True Price for a Gallon of Gasoline?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

Ed Kerr writes: How do we assess “cost” to fossil fuels vs “solar” energy? If the scenario that Malcolm Light posits in a post that he wrote for the Arctic Methane Emergency Group at the Arctic-News.blogspot comes to pass (namely…

Tagged with: Arctic Methane Emergency Group, Arctic-News.blogspot, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, Malcolm Light, solar energy
Posted in Fossil Fuels

Creating the Right Incentives for Environmental Stewardship

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

Here’s an article that illustrates what happens when regulators get clever in creating incentives for environmental stewardship and responsibility: smart people work around them, unintended consequences result, and windfall profits occur in random places that have nothing to do with…

Tagged with: clean energy, coal-fired power plants, environmental benefit, environmental responsibility, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, incentives for environmental stewardship, lung damage, remove all subsidies, Renewable Energy, uncaptured externalities, unintended consequences
Posted in Renewables - Politics

Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the…

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Posted in Renewables - Business

Will Environmentalists Engage in a Cost/Benefit Dialog?

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

Glenn Doty notes with sadness: What would be nice is if someone actually tried to nail down a rough estimate for the global net economic benefit, and the national net economic benefit, for different paced CO2 reduction strategies. The fact…

Tagged with: Amory Lovins, black swan events, CO2 reduction strategies, Dr. Jason Scorse, Dr. Robert Pollin, environment, environmental lobbies, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, Glenn Doty, global climate change, global net economic benefit, global warming, internalizing the externalities, Is Renewable Really Doable, Jeremy Rifkin, national net economic benefit, positive or negative feedback cycles in global warming, quantifying the economic benefit of “green” investments; advisors to the Obama administration, Rocky Mountain Institute, solar energy, The Third Industrial Revolution, What Environmentalist Need to Know About Economics, Wind Energy
Posted in Renewables - Business

"Climate One" Produces Fabulous Conference on Consumer Adoption of Green Products

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

I attended a terrific conference on Friday produced by “Climate One” at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. For those who may not be aware of this incredible organization, formed 88 years ago, “The Commonwealth Club of California is the…

Tagged with: adoption of eco-friendly products, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “green” messaging, bashtags, BP oil spill, car-sharing, Chevron does, Climate One, coal-fired power plants, consumer acceptance of environmentalism, disaster at Fukushima, early adopters, eco-friendly, Electric Vehicles, externalities of coal, externalities of fossil fuels, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, green brands, green fatigue, green-washing, Hybrid vehicles, ideas worth sharing, Lexus SUV hybrid gets worse gas mileage than the non-hybrid version, TED Talks, The Commonwealth Club, Toyota’s PR coup with the Prius, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Vice President Dan Quayle, Who profits at the expense of our health?, Who ruins the Ecuadorian rainforest?, Zipcar, Zipcar sold to Avis
Posted in Sustainability

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

Here’s a consumer-oriented piece from the U.S. Department of Energy: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles. Nicely done. There are a couple of issues with EVs, however, that make this a trickier issue than the article implies: • Even…

Tagged with: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles, all-electric vehicles, baseload electrical energy, build out transmission grid, car-sharing, coal damage to ecosystem, coal damage to health, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, environmental benefit of EVs, EV consumer value proposition, EV cost/benefit proposition, EV fuel savings versus gasoline, EV range, EVs, externalities of coal, externalities of fossil fuels, mass transit, plug-in vehicles, ride-sharing, shift in transportation paradigm, small vehicles for commuting, small vehicles for urban package delivery, U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Energy, wind power
Posted in Electric Vehicles

Discussion on Electric Transportation Is Part of a Larger Topic

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Craig Shields — Leave a comment ↓

When asked what 2GreenEnergy is, I normally talk about what we’re doing to forward the cause of clean energy, but I quickly add that we’re about sustainability more generally. I want to ensure that we play a role in any…

Tagged with: clean energy, climate scientists, dependence on fossil fuels, Dwight D. Eisenhower, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, energy efficiency, energy infrastructure, energy transmission, externalities of fossil fuels, farewell address in 1961, fossil fuels, Glenn Doty, global climate change, global warming, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, reducing energy consumption, Renewable Energy, renewable resources exist in specific geographical regions, renewables, smart grid, Thomas Jefferson, Wind Energy, wind power
Posted in Electric Vehicles

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