Here’s one of dozens of articles that purports to advise U.S. President Obama on energy, essentially encouraging the development of fossil fuels as well as renewables. To me, this makes sense if your sole concern is economic growth and you …
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Notes from the Solar PV America East Show in Philadelphia
I’m sitting in the press room at the PV America East show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where I’ve arrived about an hour before the main show floor opens. I’m using the time to have conversations with a few of …
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Tagged with: Caribbean, fossil fuels, grid parity, Pennsylvania Convention Center, PV America East, QBotix, solar pv, Trina Solar
Telling the OTEC Story
One of the highlights of my trip back east this week will be a visit to my client OTECorporation, a company with a huge head-start in ocean thermal energy conversion. “OTEC,” as it’s normally abbreviated, is one of the renewable …
Tagged with: clean energy, dependence on fossil fuels, electrical energy, environmental sustainability, food shortages, global climate change, global warming, mechanical energy, national security, ocean acidification, ocean thermal energy conversion, OTEC, OTECorporation, Renewable Energy, renewable energy technologies, solar energy, successive evaporation and condensation of a working fluid, sustainability, water shortages
Why Is Clean Energy So Politically Divisive in the US?
Frequent commenter Gary Tulie from the UK joins me in musing why the subject of clean energy is so politically divisive in the U.S. He offers the following: I think it must only be in America that there is such …
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Esplanade Capital — High-Flying Solar Energy Hedge Fund
I’ll be attending a solar energy trade show in Philadelphia this week: PV America East. I normally skip the regional events, but this one coincided with so many other reasons to be in the vicinity, I decided I’d check it …
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Tagged with: Esplanade Capital, PV America East, Shawn Kravetz, solar energy, solar energy hedge fund, solar power
Solar Thermal Takes Step Back in Spain
I don’t track every political decision around the world with respect to renewables, but here’s an event that I guess I should have seen coming: the reduction in beneficial feed-in tariffs for concentrated solar power (CSP, aka solar thermal) coming …
2GreenEnergy to Attend the National Renewable Energy Policy Forum
I’m headed back East this morning for a series of meetings in Washington DC and Philadelphia, starting with the American Council on Renewable Energy’s (ACORE) National Renewable Energy Policy Forum on Capitol Hill. While the value of listening to politicians …
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Choosing the Proper Tone for the Energy Policy Debate
I sometimes look back on things I’ve written about the malice of the special interests that pervade the energy industry and think, “Man, that’s harsh. Maybe meeting this greed and evil with aggression of my own is fueling the fire. Maybe, as …
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How Healthy Is Our Electrical Grid? It Depends on How You Measure It
I knew the power outage at yesterday’s Super Bowl would not go unnoticed. Sure enough, a reader, Johannes Schmied, comments: Super Bowl XLVII is history – it was a thrilling game worth watching. Yet what will stay best in my …
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Smart-Grid Enables Renewables, Energy Efficiency
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend this year’s DistribuTECH conference, arguably the most significant annual event in energy distribution, but I’ve read a few summaries. I’ve come to believe that this whole subject of smart-grid and the evolution of our power utilities lies at the …
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