Obama, Power Plant Emissions, and Renewable Energy

As noted in this article from SmartGridNews, any plan to limit power plant emissions is a plan that will offer a boost to renewables – and, by extension, the value of all solid clean energy investment opportunities.  Yes, the process by which all this works itself out may take many years to work its way through the system, as it’s bound to be fought by a variety of players, of which the utilities are only one.  Yet the handwriting is on the wall.

This explains why representatives of formerly recalcitrant groups like Duke Energy are starting to show up at green energy conferences and demonstrations of new technology at which they were noticeably absent just a few years ago.  In fact, I sat next to a young Duke Energy guy at the dinner that followed the demo of the Advanced Rail Energy Storage last week.  It’s a sign things are definitely in flux, and trending in a positive direction.