The Energy Gang, GreenTechMedia’s weekly podcast on the migration to renewable energy, is emceed by my colleague Stephen Lacey, a young man from whom I’ve learned a great deal via our many talks through the years. I like to follow …
Category: Renewables – Business
“Energy Gang” Bullish on Renewables
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The Legal Battle Over Demand Response
If you’re looking for proof that we live in an absurd world, here’s one for you: the U.S. Supreme Court has been called to rule on the authority of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) regarding its order that demand …
Tagged with: allowing demand response resources to enter electricity markets, building and running peaker plants, burning fossil fuels, Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC), Legal Battle Over Demand Response, legitimacy of demand response, ocean acidification, peak energy loads, U.S. Supreme Court
From a 50,000-Foot Level: What’s Happening with Renewable Energy in the United States? – Part 2 of 2
Continued from yesterday…. Energy Storage and the Advent of Electric Transportation. The only real issue with solar and wind is variability, i.e., the fact that the sun doesn’t shine at night, and the wind doesn’t blow in a given place all …
Tagged with: coal heavy metals, coal radioactive isotopes, Falling Cost of Renewable Energy, Get rid of coal plants now, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), migration away from the use of fossil fuels and towards clean energy, Oil Companies and Corruption, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, power utilities, Renewable Energy in the United States, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senior decision-makers on the environment, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, U.S. Congress virtually owned by the oil companies, worst polluters in the grid mix
From a 50,000-Foot Level: What’s Happening with Renewable Energy in the United States? – Part 1 of 2
Note: Here is a short essay that I wrote for another publication whose editor rejected it on the basis that it contained “controversial statements.” Ya know….I never thought of that….I suppose he’s correct! I laughed out loud when I read …
Tagged with: coal heavy metals, coal radioactive isotopes, Falling Cost of Renewable Energy, Get rid of coal plants now, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), migration away from the use of fossil fuels and towards clean energy, Oil Companies and Corruption, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, power utilities, Renewable Energy in the United States, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senior decision-makers on the environment, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, U.S. Congress virtually owned by the oil companies, worst polluters in the grid mix
The All New "Energy Fact Check"
For many years I’ve been promoting EnergyFactCheck.Org as the best and most comprehensive source for answers to the thousands of questions that can be posed on the migration to renewables. Now, the good got even better; last week, the site …
Tagged with: Clean energy is too expensive, Clean energy technologies of all stripes are increasingly beating fossil fuels on cost across the country – with or without subsidies, Energy FactCheck.Org, Government subsidies are the only reason renewables are competitive with fossil fuels, migration to renewables, price of solar energy dropped by 80% from 2008 to 2013, wind energy is the cheapest source of electricity in the United States, wind power purchase agreement
Fossil Fuels Will Soon Be Obsolete
A reader offered this quote from Buckminster Fuller: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” So true.
Frm Guest Blogger Jenny Richards: Facts on Eco Finance and Its Implementation
Eco finance is actually a phenomenon that is known to integrate the financial world and the business world with eco-friendly behaviour. This is supposed to be an arena involving several participants including business and individual consumers, investors, producers and even …
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Government Subsidies for the Energy Industry in the U.S.
A reader comments: You continue to repeat the myth of huge “oil subsidies”. Nearly anything that could be called a “subsidy” has long since disappeared or expired, but old conspiracy theories die hard. This is simply not true. I urge …
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Good Article in RenewableEnergyWorld: Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables
Here’s an article that underlines what I’ve been telling the world for the past year or so: based on simple extrapolations for the cost and growth curves of fossil vs. renewable resources, the battle for energy resource supremacy is over, …
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From a Guest Blogger: How to Generate Your Own Energy and Slash Your Heating Bills
In light of the high cost of energy these days, finding ways to reduce your energy expenditure should be a top priority. There are many ways to do this. Making your home more energy-efficient is one, but it is also …
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