Tag Archives: water shortage
Georgia Power to Triple Solar Capacity
Georgia Power filed a request with the Public Service Commission (PSC) today in order to expand its solar energy capacity between now and 2015. The utility is looking to triple the amount of solar from 61 MW annually to 210 MW over a three-year period. This is an abrupt shift from Georgia Power’s previous position [...]
China and India Don’t Have Enough Water to Cool Future Coal Plants
China and India are already bumping against their resource limits – they don’t have enough water to cool all the coal-fired power plants they want to build. “They have not introduced a water constraint on their model and assume the water is there. So my view is that they actually will not be able to [...]
Water and the Clean Energy Economy
Considering it composes roughly 80% of our body, water is humanity’s most important resource. With more than 7 billion people on the planet, water is becoming increasingly more precious. Given its absolute value, the Stockholm Energy Institute (SEI) recently published a report evaluating the potential impact of renewable energy technologies on water resources. The findings? [...]