It’s hard to know what to make of this week’s unanimous Senate vote, confirming Ernie Moniz as the new U.S. Energy Secretary, replacing the outgoing Steven Chu. If you’re a fan of a sustainable energy policy, it’s certainly not a …
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I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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Here’s a terrific piece by Renewable Energy World’s Jennifer Runyon explaining the need for and status of changes in the way that clean energy projects are financed. As it turns out, master limited partnerships (MLPs) and real estate investment trusts …
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At the fabulous lunch served at today’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum, I sat next to Christopher Dorondo, a senior representative of AWS Truepower, a solar and wind consulting company with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Terrific guy. In …
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The Writer’s Almanac reminds us that it’s the birthday of the French thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville whose visits to the fledgling U.S. in the early 19th Century culminated in his famous book, Democracy in America. According to the …
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Many of us are scratching our heads, wondering how it’s possible that renewable energy, for all its merits, could be so slow to replace fossil fuels. As outlined in this article on Chesapeake Energy (our second largest natural gas producer), the …
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Frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: Is government intervention the way to change the hearts and minds of the consumers of energy? Look at prohibition of alcohol. See the NYT article that was published today. This is a case study that …
A reader asked for my opinion on this article in RealClearScience, a well-written and innocuous primer on renewable energy. The premise: “keep pushing, but push smarter” is hard to argue with. I’m reminded of people who caution “Be careful!” when …
The subject of master limited partnerships (MLPs) arose in a session here at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum. MLPs are the perfect vehicle to raise capital for movies – and for oil and gas exploration. Why not renewables? It’s unclear. …
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When we talk about a “level playing field” for renewables, we mean that we simply hope for a day in which the incentives to generate energy from fossil fuels are removed and the energy industry and its customers must pay …
