Craig Morris’s Posts

• Feed-in tariffs -- the new school of thought 1

  Posted 3 weeks agoWhy Renewable Portfolio Standards and emissions trading (cap-and-trade) alone won't get us where we need to go - and what will.

• Why solar won't topple in Germany 1

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoSince the new center-right coalition won the elections a few weeks ago in Germany, onlookers from the U.S. have been expecting the country to drastically cut its support for solar. But Craig Morris explains why solar there to stay.

• The Spanish solar collapse 3

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoThere's been a lot of talk in the U.S. about the collapse of the Spanish solar bubble this year. But few U.S. commentators seem to understand the Spanish market well enough to explain what really happened. Craig Morris does.

• Feed-in rates: a hard sell 3

  Posted 1 month, 4 weeks agoI really feel for the renewable energy activists in the U.S. who are trying to get the most successful policy in the world, feed-in tariffs (FITs), implemented.

• Snow jobs

  The nefarious net-effect argument: Recent conservative studies on clean energy jobs miss the mark 0

  Posted 3 months ago

  Proponents of clean energy have long argued that investment in solar, wind, and other renewable sources creates domestic jobs. In the past few years, however, critics of renewable energy have responded -- with considerable success -- by arguing that the net effect is actually negative.

  The concept of "netting" the effect of investments (including government subsidies) on the job market is legitimate when used correctly; when not used correctly, it is disingenuous.

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