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.
Category: Renewables – Business
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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Outsourcing the Administration Aspects of Solar or Wind Development? TerraPro Solutions Is the Very Best in the Business
I’ve mentioned my client TerraPro Solutions in several earlier posts, but I’m not sure I ever published the flowchart I created for them.
Tagged with: Administration Aspects of Solar or Wind Development
In the European Family’s Quest to Ditch Coal, Greece Is the Problem Child
Apparently Greece is lagging behind the rest of Europe in its broad effort to phase out coal and lignite in favor of renewable energy and natural gas.
Twilight of Coal in America
When people ask me why I haven’t written a book on renewable energy in the last few years, I explain that my thinking on the subject really hasn’t changed very much recently.
The Aloha Spirit and Carbon Neutrality
Every few days we get a new report of another country or state/province within a country that’s passed a law that sets an ambitious target date for going carbon neutral. Here, it’s Hawaii, and the year is 2045.
We’re Keen To Protect Coal–Here’s Why
NPR reports: President Trump has ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take immediate steps to help financially troubled coal and nuclear power plants, which are in trouble because across much of the country they’re having trouble competing with cheaper forms of electricity …
Staying Excited About Moving To Cleaner Energy Sometimes Requires Work
In the U.S., new capacity for electrical power generation will consist almost exclusively of solar, wind, and natural gas this year, according to the Energy Information Administration. And actually, if the new gas plants don’t come online this December as …
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