A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
Tag: energy efficiency
Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
Tagged with: 96% of all manufactured products are made from hydrocarbons, baseload, Climate Change, CO2, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy storage, fossil fuels, growing population of increasingly urbanized consumers, ocean acidification, renewable energy sources, solar and wind, variable resources, water and food shortages
Ron Binz To Head the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – Sounds Like a Terrific Choice
It appears that another one of my wishes was just granted: a progressive force in the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. If FERC chief nominee Ron Binz lives up to what I’ve read about him, he really is the man …
From Guest Blogger Alejandro Rasca: How Green Windows Provide Energy Efficiency
Have you ever put your hand next to the window on a cold winter night and felt a draft? All the drafts that you feel, and many that go unnoticed, are not only compounding your electricity bill each month but …
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Jon Wellinghoff, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Pricing of Electricity
As Jon Wellinghoff steps down from his position as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) we read various articles summing up his accomplishments. In my estimation, Wellinghoff will be best remembered for establishing “dynamic pricing,” aligning consumer and …
Tagged with: demand response, dynamic pricing, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, externalities, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, Jon Wellinghoff, long-term damage fossil fuels, regulation of the power utilities, Renewable Energy, smart grid, strengthening America’s economy, strengthening America’s security, strengthening America’s stature as an environmentally responsible actor, wholesale electricity rates
From Guest Blogger Jay York: Go Green – Energy Efficiency Where You'd Least Expect It
Energy efficiency is not as difficult as it may sound. While most people aren’t in a position to custom-build a LEED certified home, they are in position to do and add a few things around their homes to make them …
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Solar PV — and Distributed Generation More Generally — Changes What We Expect from Our Utilities
The solar PV growth curves illustrate the rapid expansion in the deployment of this form for distributed generation (DG). The only conclusion one can draw from looking at these graphs is that, after decades of customers’ putting their toes in …
Talking Sustainable Agriculture on North Carolina's Outer Banks
I’m on the Outer Banks of North Carolina for the wedding of my eldest nephew. I’d never been here before, and I was expecting a stretch of land so desolate that I’d have trouble getting online or finding a good …
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NRDC Has a Good Feeling About New U.S. Energy Secretary
Ever since I interviewed Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) ace Johanna Wald for my first book (Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies), I’ve had only fond respect for what these fine folks do: use the legal process to protect the …
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Electric Transportation and Coal-Fired Power Plants
Here’s an article suggesting that electric transportation saves lives insofar as its environmental benefits reduce global warming, and heat causes more deaths each year. Sadly, this is an oversimplification. As long as coal is our lowest-cost base-load energy source, EVs …
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Tagged with: apathy to environmental damage, clean energy, coal is our lowest-cost base-load energy source, electric transportation, Electric Transportation and Coal-Fired Power Plants, Electric Vehicles, energy efficiency, environmental benefits, EVs are of dubious benefit, EVs selling like hotcakes, falling prices of EV batteries, falling prices of renewable energy, global climate change, global warming, grid-parity with fossil fuels, integrating renewable energy, oil and wars, petrostates, reduction in energy consumption per capita, smart grid, Wind Energy
Hope, Activism, and Climate Change
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this incredible, wide-ranging article by political activist Rebecca Solnit. Its theme is critically important to people trying to making sense of our modern world – and especially to those of us trying to change …
Tagged with: Arab Spring, Cameron Atwood, Citigroup, clean energy solutions, Copenhagen carbon-neutral city, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy generation, George Will, global climate change, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mohammed Bouazizi, Rachel Carson, Rebecca Solnit, tar sands pipeline
