Here’s a story about Jigar Shah, long-term friend and colleague, and how he finds himself in a position within the U.S. Department of Energy to make loans totaling hundreds of billions of dollars to companies in cleantech. As the director …
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From Guest Blogger Jane Marsh: The Role of Fuel Cell Technology in Disaster Recovery
Using hydrogen as a fuel source may bring back unpleasant memories of the Hindenberg Disaster in 1937, but our technology has evolved quite a bit since then. Today, hydrogen fuel cells are self-contained, emit water and oxygen as their only …
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From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Is This the End of Oil Companies?
People love saving at the pump — if they’re actually using their cars. In the midst of a global pandemic and a nation-wide lockdown, however, consumers aren’t exactly reaping the benefits. Even as gas prices dip below $1 in some …
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Renewable Energy Plays Key Role in GE’s Future
As shown here, the past 18 years haven’t been kind to investors in U.S. industry icon General Electric–but exactly what went wrong? The common wisdom is that the enterprise was simply so diverse and far-flung that it had become unmanageable.
Portugal Selling Off Renewable Energy, As It’s Generating More Than It Can Consume
It seems that each week we get word that another country or major city has kicked the habit…the fossil fuel habit, that is.
“Energy Matters” Offers Some Good News, But As Usual, There’s More To the Story
If you’re looking for a summary of news from the entire energy industry: fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables and all the peripheral technologies, you may want to check out Energy Matters; regular 2GreenEnergy readers will note that I quote something this source at least …
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In Terms of Environmentalism, For Every Action There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
I met a guy at the farmers’ market just now who asked me what I was doing with my life. In the course of my explanation, I mentioned that renewables and cleantech generally are facing a stiff headwind associated with …
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In Renewables, China Picks Up the Baton that the U.S. Dropped
As pictured here, the Chinese province of Qinghai used only wind, solar and hydroelectric power to supply its population of 5.8 million for seven consecutive days.
With This Level of Impact, Is It Still Correct to Refer to Renewables as “Alternative” Energy?
March of 2017 saw solar and wind contribute more than 10% to the U.S. electricity grid mix for the first time in history (up from 8.6% in March 2016). In a very short period of time, renewable energy has gone …
Oklahoma’s Winds May Come Sweeping Down the Plains, But the State Whacks Production Tax Credit (PTC) for Wind Energy
Those who may be fixated on kleptocracy that the U.S. federal government has become should be aware that certain of the states are excelling at lying and conducting corrupt business practices as well. Take Oklahoma, for instance, with its dogged …
