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. …
Category: Renewables – Business
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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From Guest Blogger Linda Bailey: Five Reasons to Patent Your Green Technology
As the scramble for green technologies sweeps through the communities of the planet, everyone is trying to develop the next biggest eco-friendly product. Patenting a product goes beyond simple greed. It is a method that can ensure that someone else …
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The Citizens of Boulder, Colorado Want Renewable Energy Now
For those of you who may not be aware of it, the city of Boulder, CO is going through a process of attempting to “municipalize” its electrical power, i.e., to arrange for the city to purchase the assets necessary to …
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From Guest Blogger Nick: Fracking – Controversial Process or Way to Keep UK's Energy Secure
Fracking has been in the news a considerable amount lately. This is the process which uses water, chemicals, and a complex drilling process to extract a form of natural gas, called shale gas, from rocks deep underground. Fracking is short …
Economics and the Migration to Clean Energy
In response to my post: If the Move To Renewables Is Inevitable, Why Not Do It Now? frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: “The birth of the solar age will not come without a lot of birth pangs. It is too simplistic to …
Top Five College Degrees in Today’s World
A reader just sent me this excellent infographic on the top five college degrees for the 21st Century. No surprise here: environmental sciences is right up there. I’ve spoken with hundreds of young people – including my own two children – …
