Here’s a report that predicts that a certain market, in this case, the market for Flexible AC Transmission Systems will grow to $1,386.01 million in 2018. That’s about $1.4 billion – predicted to the nearest $10,000? This is a mistake …
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Obviously, renewable energy has a whole host of nay-sayers who make a variety of points, including: • It’s expensive. (This is true, though it’s becoming less so each day – and it depends on how one does the accounting. Some of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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. …
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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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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