Tom Udall (D-NM — pictured) and a few other U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would take the U.S. grid-mix from its current 18% concentration of renewables up to 50% by 2035. It’s not that no one here is trying …
Category: Renewables – Business
Measuring the Strength of the Economy
Here’s a piece in Forbes that compares “Trump’s economy” to Obama’s. A few things: The quote marks around “Trump’s economy” are meant to signify that the president has a very limited capacity to shape the economy by himself. Did Bush 43 …
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Good Marketing Adds Value To the Reader’s Day
Those looking to put a little spring in their step today should check out this new Nike ad, based on the U.S. victory at the Women’s World Cup. This is marketing at its finest, providing the viewer real value in …
Why Coal-Fired Power Plants Are Closing
Washington State has among the cleanest grid-mixes in the U.S., due to its prodigious hydro power. But there are times when The Evergreen State can’t generate enough electricity from within its borders and needs to import from neighboring states, and …
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Making Renewable Energy Happen in Maine
Like every other country on Earth, the United States is not at all homogeneous, but, rather, composed of regions that have their own character, some charming, others not so much. Maine is known for its bountiful lobsters and its boots …
Renewable Energy: Votes Matter
There are several reasons that the opponents of renewable energy are having such a deuce of a time impeding its expansion. One, of course, is that the levelized cost of energy from solar and wind is very low, and becoming …
Business Ethics in the Modern World
I spent the years from 1982 through 2008 as a business/marketing consultant, mostly serving large clients in IT and communications technology: IBM, H-P, AT&T, Microsoft, and the like. During that time I was very dialed in to the ethos in the …
U.S. Renewable Energy Capacity Leaves Coal “in the Dust”
It would be nice to see environmentalism leading the way in the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of renewables, though that’s not at all what we are, in fact, experiencing.
Solar and Wind: What About Subsidies?
Here’s a discussion in the newsletter of the American Energy Society on the subject of the phase out of the tax credits for solar and wind. Those who install solar currently enjoy an “investment tax credit” (ITC) of 30%, meaning …
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Green Manufacturing Plan
Occasionally one hears that the two major parties in U.S. politics are essentially indistinguishable from one another, and in some areas that actually is true. For example, regardless of who’s elected president in 2020, the country will still have a …
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