One of our interns who spent the summer working on our companion site SustainabilityRoleModels.com wrote a good article on Southern California Edison’s numerous sustainability initiatives, and arranged for me to speak with one of SCE’s spokespeople, Evan Birenbaum. Late yesterday, …
Times Are Changing Quickly in the Power Utility Space Read More »
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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A reader by the name of Jerry sent in this article “What’s Not Wrong with Wind” and suggested that it would amplify some of the points I made in my recent piece “Is Wind a Scam?” Thanks, Jerry.
According to the American Wind Energy Association, the last quarter of 2012 brought the total wind installations for 2012 to 13,131 megawatts of power. This influx of new power extends the total of cumulative wind capacity for the United States …
From Guest Blogger Tina Samuels: Which States are Getting Wind Energy Right? Read More »
Here’s a headline from the syndicated news show “Democracy Now” along with a few comments: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil what it calls a major initiative on tackling climate change. The White House says President Obama will soon …
U.S. President Obama: Sounding Good on Energy and the Environment Read More »
Those of us who follow renewable energy would like to think that participants in the industry are of a higher moral character than those in the 20th Century forms of energy that are now being replaced. While that may be …
I’m always on the lookout for good infographics on renewable energy. I just came across the one I linked above, but it’s flawed for several reasons: • It treats as separate items things like “hydro” and “biomass” (sources of energy) with …
As a set of technologies, solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP), lags at least a couple of decades behind the more mature industries of wind energy and photovoltaics. That means that we can expect lots of interesting advancements as …
Solar Thermal Towers: One Is Good, Several Is Better Read More »
This article on fracking reminded me that I haven’t written too much on the subject. For the record, my position is that fracking carries with it serious ecological consequences that we’re sweeping under the rug, and that natural gas does …
Clean Energy Investment Opportunities Becoming More Attractive By the Day Read More »
Wind energy – maybe one thinks of old wooden windmills and tulips when they think of wind energy, but reality shows new state of the art wind turbines that have the capacity to power around 250 homes from a single …
From Guest Blogger Heather Legg: Is Wind Energy Getting Blown Away? Read More »
