Renewable Energy

It Ain't Leviticus, but it is deuteronomy

Gore on the Daily Show: extended dance remix 0
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago The ex-veep turned in a stunning performance on The Daily Show last night, revolutionizing his own image and the -- oh, who are we kidding. He was solid, smart, and painfully right, as always. Take a look.
Coal River Mountain: destruction stops here

Blowing up our clean energy future 1
Posted 2 days, 8 hours ago Right now, Coal River Mountain represents the best and worst our country has to offer. It is one of the most dangerous examples of blasting for dirty coal and one of the most profound examples of hope that exist in our country. It is a crossroads.
meanwhile, back at the DOI ranch ...

Salazar cowboys-up to fight global warming 0
Posted 2 days, 21 hours ago With all eco-eyes focused on the action (or, more properly, inaction) on a climate bill, other critical components of a clean energy economy can be overlooked -- like what Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is up to.
...reducing carbon will be very good for our economy overall...

Why Does Oklahoma Want To Drown New York? 0
Posted 4 days, 21 hours ago
Alert Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck!

American stimulus funds benefiting foreign wind energy firms 8
Posted 1 week ago The Investigative Reporting Workshop released a report on Thursday detailing how one of the first big chunks of money for clean energy under the stimulus package went to wind power projects owned by foreign companies.
PBS NOW - Electric Car Dreams

The long and wind-powered road 7
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago The Danes are hard at work cracking one of the great challenges of wind power: the fact that the wind blows when it darn well pleases.
The electrons are green, but the wires are still ugly

Renewables are inevitable, transmission is optional 72
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago We all agree that a 100 percent renewable energy system is preferable. But we don't need a new, high-voltage transmission network now to reach that goal, and it's far from clear that we'll need it in the future.
Local fetishists still wrong

We need transmission to solve global warming 15
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago The new version of Energy Self-Reliant States manages to duplicate the fallacies of their previous reports, and adds new ones.
Shock to the system

A little heresy on transmission 6
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago The last thing renewable energy needs right now are new transmission lines.
Clean tech reality check

Paging Dr. Chu, venture capitalist 2
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Despite all the entrepreneurial buzz around clean energy companies, it's going to take very deep pockets to get projects online at utility scale. That's why Energy Secretary Steven Chu may be the industry's most important venture capitalist.
Gore talks energy and climate at SEJ 1
Posted 4 weeks ago
Free Pass?

Ask Umbra on buying carbon offsets 11
Posted 1 month ago Your power company wants to sell you offsets, but what are they doing with the money? Umbra explains how to find out, and whether it's worth the investment.
India’s 1.1 billion move to feed-in tariffs 0
Posted 1 month ago The world's largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential.
Tank and File

Ask Umbra on replacing hot-water heaters 21
Posted 1 month ago When the parents of three little boys wonder which hot-water heater makes the most sense for them, Umbra sheds light on the issue.
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Extra largesse

Fossil fuel subsidies dwarf clean energy subsidies; Obama wants to eliminate them 13
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago One often hears opponents of clean energy say that renewable sources are too expensive; they can't get by without subsidies; they can't compete in a "free market." One of the many reasons this is a daffy argument is that there is no such thing as a free market, certainly not in energy. Fossil fuels have benefited from a century of subsidies and supporting infrastructure -- and are still subsidized lavishly relative to their scrappy little competitors. This is a point enviros often make, but a new report from the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars puts some teeth in it.
They are asking for it, really asking for it

LADWP asks public for input on solar plans 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago When it comes to sustainability, Los Angeles has its work cut out for it.
Conservative French Government again proposes higher solar PV tariffs 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
For the second time within twelve months the French Government of conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed raising the feed-in tariff for solar PV in the coming year.
Does the Wall Street Journal employ anyone who understands energy markets? 14
Posted 2 months ago
Actually, I think they do.
Wind in Wall Street's Sails

Investment rushes into wind, but can we make it last? 2
Posted 2 months ago
After falling into the doldrums for the past six-months, the wind industry is roaring back to life thanks to direct public investments enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.