In response to my recent piece on the cancellation of subsidies for solar and wind, 2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes: “U.S. costs for residential solar are way higher than in other parts of the world.
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We Tend To Overestimate Trump’s Power To Destroy
Michael Bloomberg often delivers a short address at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall St., an event I’ve attended several times over the years. Here’s an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times that invokes the same folksy, …
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Talking Points for Craig Shields’ Interview with the Wall Street Business Network
One of my colleagues is trying to put together an interview for me with the Wall Street Business Network, and asked me to develop some “talking points” to provide an example of how this might unfold. I just knocked out …
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Different Reasons to Love Renewable Energy
I had an experience yesterday at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in San Francisco that I thought I’d share. Right before lunch, I took the opportunity to pose a question to the panel on the stage, prefaced with this announcement: …
A Frightening Reminder About Our Government–from the National Clean Energy Summit
At the National Clean Energy Summit yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat with Bill Ritter (pictured), ex-governor of Colorado. I reminded him of a story I had heard him tell a few years ago at one of the Renewable …
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Iran and Syria: Using Vast Oil Profits — For What Purposes?
Sorry, we made an error and sent you this email with a link to the wrong article. It’s corrected below….. I’m anything but an expert on the Middle East, but this can’t be good news: Iran and Syria signing a …
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Hot New Solution to the Management of Mid-Sized Solar PV Projects
I’m happy to announce that Robert Benedict, a key player in the solar PV arena since 2005, will be coming on as a 2GreenEnergy Associate shortly. I met Robert at last year’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum in San Francisco, when …
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Renewable Energy Finance Forum Looks at Latin America, the Caribbean
I usually try to attend these Renewable Energy Finance Forums, though I’m going to skip this one, as it focuses on the Latin American and the Caribbean – a part of the world in which, sadly, I haven’t historically gotten …
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We Want Clean Energy, But Getting Congress To Act Is Tough
I occasionally like to write something purely for the 43% of 2GreenEnergy readers who reside outside the United States and may have difficulty understanding how profoundly broken our legal and political processes are here, or who may think I’m exaggerating …
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The Good News: Geothermal Produces Baseload Power. The Bad News…..
This article on geothermal makes an important point: geothermal produces baseload power, just like coal or nuclear. That’s the good news. The bad news is that exploration is expensive, and its success is hard to predict. When I was listening …
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