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Get in the van It's not whether we can beat climate change with today's tools, but whether we can get moving	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Tyler Hamilton ran across some elaborate, multibillion-dollar plans for a carbon capture and sequestration network in Canada, geared around enhanced oil recovery. Naturally it was asking the government (read: Canadian taxpayers) to assume the bulk of the risk. Naturally it won't be done for well over a decade. Then he ran across something else: Then I read about a new law passed in Germany that, among other things, will require all new homes built in the country to ...
Topics: Germany, renewable energy, energy, climate (all these topics)

How can California become more energy efficient? California looks for yet more clean energy	Joseph Romm	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following essay is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- The California Energy Commission (CEC) has released its biennial integrated energy policy report (PDF). The 301-page report looks at various issues confronting California and makes recommendations on how to address them. The issues include: Rising population leading to greater demand for energy (natural gas, petroleum, and electric power). Rising natural gas demand while pr ...
Topics: energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy, California (all these topics)

Question of the day What about the RPS in Texas?	John McGrath	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
So Senate Republicans managed to kill the Renewable Portfolio Standard in the energy bill. One question: who was the big-government, nanny-state liberal who forced one of the nation's largest and most successful RPSs on the poor, unwitting state of Texas? Hint: As Governor of Texas in 1999, he signed the RPS into law and later moved to the District of Columbia to pursue other opportunities, like threatening to veto a bill that would have treated all Americans like ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, legislation, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Annals of irritants, part three Louisiana's Sen. Landrieu votes against party, for Big Oil	David Roberts	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
When the energy bill went before the Senate yesterday morning, it had been stripped of the Renewable Energy Standard, but it still retained the tax package, which would have reversed $13.5 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas companies to help pay for $21 billion worth of investment in renewable energy. Republicans, as always, threatened a filibuster, so majority leader Harry Reid went for a cloture vote, for which he needed 60 votes. He got 59. The final roll call s ...
Topics: energy, politics, legislation, renewable energy, Big Oil (all these topics)

'Decision-makers' rank GHG abatement technologies Guess which type of energy comes in last in a recent poll	Ron Steenblik	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
GlobeScan, a self-styled 'global public opinion and stakeholder research' organization based in Toronto, has just published the results of a survey of 1,000 climate 'decision-makers and influencers' from across 105 countries, conducted in the two weeks leading up to the Bali Climate Conference (Nov. 22-Dec. 5, 2007). According to the firm's website: Unlike public opinion polls, this survey focuses on the views of professionals in position to make or influence lar ...
Topics: climate, energy, renewable energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

CNBC energy bill debate with Dan Weiss The economic benefits of going green	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Earlier this week, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, Dan Weiss, went on CNBC to discuss 'the economic benefits of going green' as it relates to the energy bill currently in Congress. Weiss, a strong advocate of the clean energy provisions, went head to head with Max Schultz of the Manhattan Institute, whose sole platform was costs. The unjustifiably controversial renewable portfolio standard was the heart of the ...
Topics: renewable energy, energy, climate, legislation, politics, economy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Interesting Kiwi story about anti-windfarm sentiment	JMG	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently being in the antipodes doesn't change how people see wind farms: The "not in my backyard" view rules in a district where many residents don't mind wind farms just not any where near them, writes Bruce Holloway. ... In that respect, the experts advise that wind farm development in New Zealand is unfolding in a remarkably similar pattern to that of other countries. There is a relatively slow start to development, followed by a period of intense ac ...
Topics: energy, New Zealand, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Back online	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Okay, the committee website picked the feed back. It can be accessed here. In the intervening hour or so, a Cardin amendment -- to fund federal agencies involved in L-W enforcement with money raised from the auction -- passed. So did an amendment offered by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to create a bonus system for renewable energy modeled on the bill's existing bonus system for carbon capture, and a Lautenberg amendment offering to authorize the National Academy ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Mirror, Mirror, on the Sand Solar project in African desert could supply clean energy to Europe		04 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:12 PM on 04 Dec 2007 A string of gigantic solar generators in the northern African desert could cleanly supply one-sixth of Europe's electricity needs, say backers of a project called Desertec. The project relies on concentrated solar power, in which giant mirrors focus the sun's rays on pillars filled with water, creating steam, which drives turbines, which generate electricity. In the ...
Topics: Africa, energy, European Union, innovation, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

News from the Googleplex Is Google betting on a carbon tax?	Charles Komanoff	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Google Inc. has a new project, 'Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal.' Google is preparing to bet megabucks, mega-engineers, and its cutting-edge reputation on its ability to propel solar thermal power, wind turbines, and other renewable electricity up the innovation curve and under the cost of coal-fired power, Reuters reported Tuesday. "Our goal is to produce one gigawatt [1,000 megawatts] of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are opt ...
Topics: carbon tax, politics, renewable energy, business, energy, legislation (all these topics)

You know what they say about a guy with a big footprint? GAO says the electric sector's got a big subsidy to match	Sean Casten	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The GAO has reported on subsidies to our electric sector, proving what Grist readers already (sadly) know, namely that subsidies to the dirty folks vastly exceed existing or proposed subsidies to cleaner generation. The most remarkable thing is that the biggest subsidies, like nuclear liability guarantees and lower debt costs through rate payer guarantees, aren't even included in the list (although, to the GAO's credit, it does acknowledge their existence). So ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, fossil fuels, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Google Dolls Google funds R&D to make clean energy cheaper than coal		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:31 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Google has made a humongous announcement -- which goes without saying, since everything Google does is humongous -- of plans to heavily fund R&D of renewable-energy technology, focusing on wind, solar, and geothermal power. Calling the project Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (or RE<C), Google has an end goal of cleanly produced electricity that's less expensive than dirty-black-ro ...
Topics: business, greenish companies, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Neva-duh Cheaper to power Nevada with renewables than coal, says consultancy		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:57 PM on 26 Nov 2007 Nevada will end up with costlier power if it goes ahead with plans to build three new coal plants instead of relying on renewables, says a study from an independent economic consultancy. Higher construction costs and an inevitable tax on emissions will drive up costs of the black rock in the not-so-long run, according to ECONorthwest. The conclusions will surely get the thumbs up from d ...
Topics: coal, energy, Nevada, news, renewable energy, Utah (all these topics)

Hamsters for baseload power Innovative idea may reduce renewable energy costs	biodiversivist	25 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A study done at Stanford and published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is described by its lead author, Cristina Archer, this way: ... each in a separate cage with a treadmill. At any given time, some hamsters will be sleeping or eating and some will be running on their treadmill. If you have only one hamster, the treadmill is either turning or it isn't, so the power's either on or off. With two hamsters, the od ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The salty, oily flavor of progress 80% by 2050? Try 2010.	Adam Stein	20 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Got a headache from all the recent back and forth over rhetoric and politics of climate change? Last week, Frito-Lay served up a refreshingly rhetoric-free reminder that the future is coming no matter what we might do to encourage (or stop) it. Under their net zero initiative, the salty snack behemoth will be taking an Arizona potato chip factory almost entirely off the grid, running it on renewable energy and recycled water. The project stands out to me mostly for wha ...
Topics: renewable energy, energy, climate, business, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The speaker speaks on the energy bill Nancy Pelosi answers my question about renewables in the energy bill	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I and several other journalists spent the morning at an on-the-record breakfast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where, armed with my trusty digital voice recorder, I asked her to address last week's rumors about the potential demise of renewable energy in the energy bill. Will the electricity standard and the tax titles be dropped? If not, will the bill be split into parts? Her reaction was ... well, I'd call it slight consternation. She, not surprisingly ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

NYT sez: Don't gut it New York Times supports renewables in energy bill	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Just in time to be too late? The New York Times has some good advice for the congressional leadership: The House bill requires utilities to generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind by 2020. Republicans, pressured by a few big utilities like the Southern Company, blocked a similar provision in the Senate. Almost two dozen states have already figured out that this is both good for the environment and good for the economy and have enacted ren ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

From Concentrated Advocates talk up concentrated solar power		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 13 Nov 2007 It would provide an endlessly renewable, carbon-free power supply, and be a means of bringing drinkable water to those who need it most -- on the cheap. An environmentalist's utopian imaginings? Advocates of concentrated solar power say it could be the future. From the Archives Not Behind My Farm. Farm Belt residents not gung-ho about ethanol plants. Junk the Bunker. Group urg ...
Topics: energy, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

How to keep wind power soaring	Joseph Romm	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If you are interested in how wind power can continue to soar, be sure to read an excellent study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: 'Using the Federal Production Tax Credit to Build a Durable Market for Wind Power in the United States' (PDF). The authors conclude: ... our analysis suggests that a longer-term extension of the federal PTC may provide a number of benefits, including accelerated wind deployment, reductions in installed wind project costs, and i ...
Topics: wind power, renewable energy, energy (all these topics)

Progress in renewable energy infrastructure Wind power installations set to soar 63 percent this year	Joseph Romm	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Some good energy news: US wind power installations are projected to jump 63 percent this year amid concern about global warming and rising fuel prices, an industry group said on Wednesday. The US wind industry is on track to complete a total of 4,000 megawatts worth of installations in 2007, or about enough to power 1 million average homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association [AWEA]. Tip o' the hat to state renewable energy standards and th ...
Topics: wind power, energy, renewable energy, progress (all these topics)

Renewable energy on the ropes Hound your representative to add an RPS to the energy bill	Adam Browning	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If scientists could take the repeated dashing of hopes for a better future and harness it to make electrons, we'd have electricity too cheap to meter. If the crushing of expectations were a renewable resource, this Congress is truly on the cutting edge of the clean energy revolution. Apparently, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi met on Thursday morning and decided to move an energy bill that does not include an RPS [see this post]. Or a tax title. No tax title means n ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

No coal? OK, then what? Beware the allure of liquefied natural gas	Kristina & Jason Makansi	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Two years ago, one of us (Jason) was at an energy industry conference planning committee and he made the point that whether or not everyone around the table agreed on global warming, the issue was just about to break out and dominate the public conversation on energy. Because of global warming, he went on to say, getting a new coal-fired power station built was just a 'prudency review waiting to happen.' For those of you that remember, it was, in many wa ...
Topics: coal, energy, international politics, natural gas, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bye, bye, Ms. Renewable Pie Dem leadership considers axing renewable energy from the energy bill	Brian Beutler	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
OK. I'm still trying to report this out. What I have for now comes from environmental advocates, off-the-record conversations, and, for what it's worth, my own speculation. The situation is very fluid, and can change at any time (as in, by the time you read this). Near as I can tell, though, this is how things look going into tonight: I've learned from concerned advocates that Democratic congressional leadership is considering stripping the production tax credits ...
Topics: renewable energy, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Nefarious legislative shenanigans Domenici tries to kill the energy bill and sneak nuclear loan guarantees into the farm bill	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) is up to some serious shenanigans up on the hill. First, he has introduced an amendment that would attach the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to the farm bill. He claims he's trying to save the RFS, in case negotiations on the energy bill (where the RFS now lives) stall out. Senate majority leader Harry Reid opposes the move. Why? It's complicated, but the gist is that lots of folks -- Reid likely included -- see this as an attempt to sin ...
Topics: agriculture, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics)

What price carbon? How high a price on carbon is needed to make renewables competitive?	David Roberts	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I've argued before that electricity cost comparisons are, in Walt Patterson's memorable phrase, "an artifact of prior decisions otherwise concealed" -- i.e., based on unstated moral, social, and economic assumptions. Most of those assumptions, for reasons of habit, custom, and occasionally pecuniary interest, are weighted toward the traditional way of doing things: a hub-and-spoke electricity grid driven by massive coal, gas, nuclear, and hydro plants. (To ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

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