Tag Archives: renewables
Bipartisan Support for Renewable Energy?
Think only liberals support renewable energy? Not a chance. You know who supports renewable energy? Those who understand the economic and environmental superiority of things like solar, wind and electric vehicles. As the American Council on Renewable Energy reported in its “fact check” series. . . The claim is that American people – other than [...]
In Focus: Investing in Renewable Energy
Besides being good for the planet, investing in renewable energyis a rapidly emerging trend among the world’s biggest investors. What if I told you the world’s third-richest man, one of the biggest investment banks in the world, and the country with the largest national economy in Europe all have huge investments in renewable energy sectors? [...]
In Focus: California Energy Use
Californians are poised for a more functional, data-driven model for setting the prices people pay for electricity. The new model will make the massive differences in costs of providing electricity during the course of a typical day more evident to us as energy users, thereby inspiring more efficient use of electricity resources. The California Public [...]
Solar Passes Wind as #1 Renewable Energy Investment
Not only did solar installations soar in the US this past quarter, but solar surpassed wind as the top renewable energy investment worldwide in 2011, according to twin reports from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Solar attracted almost twice as much investment as [...]
Can California Make it to 12K MW of Distributed Generation?
California Governor Jerry Brown wants 12.000 megawatts of distributed generation (DG) to be part of the 20,000-plus megawatts of renewable capacity the state’s utilities have been ordered to put in place by 2020. That’s a lot of rooftop and ground mounted solar, small and community wind, small biomass/biogas production, combined heat and power and other [...]
The Big Tunas Get It: GE, Buffett, Google, Apple go the Clean Energy Route
Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America’s most-watched investor. GE, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, is too. Each of these corporate icons is placing big bets and hundreds of millions of dollars on a future powered by wind and solar power. Apple just joined them, announcing plans to power its main U.S. [...]
Integrating Renewables into the Electric Generation Resource Mix
We recently posted the following graph (of California ISO Hourly Breakdown of Total Production by Resource Type for May 1, 2012) on our Facebook page and asked followers to guess what resource the red section represented: Below is the same graph with the resource labels included. The red resource type on the bottom is renewables. [...]
In Focus: Renewables vs Coal
No energy has zero emissions but clearly some sources of energy are better than others. To help identify power sources that have the lowest energy requirements the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released an analysis that lets users compare, contrast and better understand what a lifespan of emissions means for project permitting, [...]
Is The War On Coal Real?
Big polluters and their Congressional allies have created a new straw man to knock down with the invention of the so-called “War on Coal.” It is a multi-million dollar disinformation campaign funded by Big Coal polluters to protect their profits and distract Americans from the deadly effects of air pollution on public health. However, with [...]