Those of you following the fossil fuel divestment movement already know that the Republic of Ireland just became the first sovereign country to begin a methodical sell-off of its entire holdings in coal, oil, and natural gas.
Category: Renewables – Business
Trade Shows as a Component of Clean Energy Marketing
Sun Effect is an Israel-based start-up with a proprietary robotics solution to clean PV panels, as shown in the video linked above. They contacted me just now in the hopes of raising investment capital to enable a comprehensive, international marketing …
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Comparing Wind and Solar To Coal and Natural Gas
From the American Energy Society: Though impossible to forecast with certainty, wind and/or solar power will become more economical and more reliable than coal or natural gas when storage can hold four hours of capacity. That will allow renewable providers to sell …
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The EPA’s Mission to Destroy the Environment Takes a Turn, But Is It for the Better?
As one can imagine, there is much rejoicing about Scott Pruitt’s resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The main issue here, however, is that Andrew Wheeler, until today the second-in-command at the EPA, is now its acting administrator, …
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From Guest Blogger Dimitris Papadopoulos: Green Career Switch in the UK— Four Exciting Environmental Organisations
If you’re feeling frustrated in your current job, you’re not alone. According to a recent YouGov poll, 37 per cent of British people say their job’s not making a meaningful contribution to the world and 33 per cent don’t believe …
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From a Certain Viewpoint, The Environmental Protection Agency Provides Comic Relief
Today is the 38th anniversary of the debut of “Airplane,” arguably the funniest movie every made.
Renewable Energy Plays Key Role in GE’s Future
As shown here, the past 18 years haven’t been kind to investors in U.S. industry icon General Electric–but exactly what went wrong? The common wisdom is that the enterprise was simply so diverse and far-flung that it had become unmanageable.
268 Down, 262 To Go. More Than Half of the U.S. Coal Plants Billowing Poison Into the Atmosphere in 2010 Shuttered
For those of us with lungs, it really hasn’t been a bad eight years. Though it seems like it was eons ago, it was in 2010 that the U.S. had 530 operating coal-fired power plants. Now more than half of …
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From Guest Blogger Devin Morrissey: Four Eco-Friendliest States in the U.S.
The United States is the midst of peak moving season, in which millions of Americans across the country pack up their things and relocate for myriad reasons.
Good and Bad News in the U.S. Electricity Markets
To simplify a rather complicated structure, the electricity marketplace here in the United States is controlled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) which oversees a number of Regional and Independent System Operators (ISOs). I thought it would be worth a …
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