Renewable Energy — Seeking a Level Playing Field with Fossil Fuels
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 the course of the conversation, I told him a bit about 2GreenEnergy, and we talked about the challenge of selling renewables in an environment with cheap fossil fuels. “All I would ask is a level playing field,” Christopher sighed. I laughed, as I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve said that. “I have to laugh. That’s a recurring theme in the discussion on my website. If you put ‘level playing field’ in the search bar on 2GreenEnergy, you’ll be reading for one hell of a long time.”
Speaking of evaluating the true cost of fossil fuels, here’s a 69-page report evaluating the benefits of retiring the 600-or-so coal-fired power plants in the US.
All we have to do is wait. Reality is hitting everybody in our face. Read a report from the European Wind Association, sep/26: More wind power does NOT require more gas-fired back up. Slowly, but steadily, the real advantages of renewable energy are becoming evident.
From your lips to God’s ears, as they say.