A bit off topic perhaps, but I know that a ton of readers here have their own blogs, and thus have to deal with spam. My spam filter, Akismet, which used to be excellent, btw, has for some reason gone …
Category: Renewables – Business
Is Renewable Really Doable – A Review
As an author, I’m always happy to receive good reviews of my books. Having said that, I’m not too sure what to make of this review of “Is Renewable Really Doable?” (2012), as it’s in Spanish. I’m reminded of the …
From Guest Blogger Kristina Ross: So Hot Right Now (I think this is a reference to the weather, not the blogger, but I could be wrong. -Ed.)
Though summer might be rounding out its last few weeks of insufferable heat, it’s still a perfect time to examine how energy consumption stacks up in the hottest months of the year. Check out this infographic to see how the …
Video: Boulder Colorado Municipalizing Its Electrical Utility
There are a number of reasons that I wanted to share this video on Boulder, Colorado and its citizens’ attempts to internalize (“municipalize” as they say) the generation of its electrical energy. First, it’s the style of video whose quality …
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Reframing Our Utilities’ Mission Statement
I have to admit that tension really is brewing between the power utilities and the solar industry – at least the part of it that promotes distributed (e.g., rooftop) generation (DG). Yet it’s hard for me to understand all this …
2GreenEnergy Thanks Its Interns
Profound thanks to Iban Etxeberria, Rebecca McKenzie, and Chelsea Dowell for their fantastic contributions to 2GreenEnergy and its sister site SustainabilityRoleModels.org. Iban just left yesterday, returning to his home in Basque Country, after spending the summer here in the U.S. …
Clean Energy "Solutions" Need To Be Economically Competitive
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty (see Doty Windfuels) and I have been discussing the economic merits of novel approaches to hydrokinetics. Re: my statement that I believed my clean energy business opportunity CycloOcean will provide a reasonable return on investment, …
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Tagged with: American competitiveness and leadership in the 21st Century, clean energy business opportunity, CycloOcean, falling costs of renewables, government subsidize clean energy R&D, Hydrokinetics, novel approaches to hydrokinetics, pricing in the externalities of fossil fuels, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty, skyrocketing costs of nuclear, subsidies to the oil companies, waste-to-energy
Times Are Changing Quickly in the Power Utility Space
One of our interns who spent the summer working on our companion site SustainabilityRoleModels.com wrote a good article on Southern California Edison’s numerous sustainability initiatives, and arranged for me to speak with one of SCE’s spokespeople, Evan Birenbaum. Late yesterday, …
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Tagged with: biomass resources, demand response, Edison International, Evan Birenbaum, geothermal, integration of electric vehicles, investor-owned utility, IOU, micro-grids, minimizing the ecological effects of delivering power, renewable energy procurement, renewable power sources, SCE’s parent company, small hydropower, smart meters, solar energy, solar energy giant Socore, Southern California Edison, sustainability initiatives, SustainabilityRoleModels.com, Wind Energy, wind farms in Tehachapi
Subsidies for Renewable Energy No Longer Needed by 2025
Those who think that federal subsidies for renewable energy are an unacceptable extravagance will be pleased to know that, by 2025, they will no longer be necessary, according to this report by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Of …
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Will Our Electrical Power Utilities Remain Relevant?
Here’s a Business Week article whose point is that the relevance of our power utilities is disappearing. Not true. Unless there is a breakthrough in energy of unprecedented proportion, along the lines of cold fusion or something else that appears …
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