The ubiquity of news coverage on the cornavirus has offered the fossil fuel industry an opening no one could have anticipated: the opportunity to claim that our civilization is too busy to worry about anything else. They’re using this to …
Pursuing a Coronavirus Vaccine and Renewable Energy Solutions: Walking and Chewing Gum Read More »
I get a real charge out of obviously disingenuous remarks. Yesterday we had Donald Trump’s thanking Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 members of the U.S. state department from Russia, on the basis that this will reduce the U.S. federal government’s …
In the Energy Industry and Elsewhere, We’re Surrounded by BS Read More »
Not all news in the solar PV world is good, as my colleague Craig Ruark (pictured) notes in this column on Nevada’s energy markets. This whole thing goes back to the notion of the utility death spiral (i.e., people leave …
2GreenEnergy supporter Craig Ruark writes: Hi, Craig. On December 22nd, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada will be making a landmark decision on the future of residential rooftop solar in Nevada. The last two articles I wrote for the Las …
Until earlier today, I hadn’t spoken with George Douglas, spokesperson for the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in five years; I had interviewed him in 2010 in preparation for my first book, “Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies.” During …
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Hard At Work on “Energy Systems Integration” Read More »
Much has been written about the recent Wall Street Journal article asserting that the U.S. grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack which could have a crippling and long-lasting (18-month) effect. This, of course, is another good reason to push …
Terrorism Threats Militate Toward Distributed Generation Read More »
The largest rooftop solar installation in the American Northwest is now online. Portland General Electric (PGE) has a 673,000 square foot installation of 2.4 MW on seven ProLogis warehouses. PGE ranked among the top 10 utilities in the west for …
[The Vector] Largest Rooftop Solar Project in the Northwest Read More »
