Category: Renewables – Business

Plastic waste is killing our environment one day at a time. Right now in the U.S. alone, we have over 2,000 active landfills, and the average American throws out about four and a half pounds of garbage each day. Did …

From Guest Blogger Ryan: FloWater–Fighting Plastic One Bottle at a Time Read More »

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Many readers have correctly noted that 2GreenEnergy has taken on a more political tone as the years have gone by. The reason is summed up in my most recent book: Bullish on Renewable Energy, and in this article in Forbes.

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According to the Energy Society: Renewable energy prices have become competitive around the world:

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Here’s a piece of unqualified good news: The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the arm of the federal government that serves to manage and control the energy industry, has rejected Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s plan to rewrite U.S. energy policy …

Good News in the Energy Industry Read More »

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Here’s an article that explains how the European Union has agreed on what the author refers to as “ambitious” renewable energy targets (30%) for 2030.  Though this is obviously good news, I join those who believe that such targets are …

Carbon Emissions and Our Energy Mix: A Problem That Will Take of Itself Read More »

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Shortly after we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in 2009, I made a series of videos called “The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy,” where, in each segment, I talked about a certain technology: wind, solar, biomass, hydrokinetics, and geothermal, and listed, …

Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy Read More »

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Critics of carbon markets, like California’s cap and trade, have a great deal substance to their arguments.  But what happens when China, a country that burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, asserts that it will become …

China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Huge, But So Are Its Efforts To Curb Them Read More »

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Germany is known around the world for its bold investments in renewable energy ($200 billion since the mid-1990s), but the creation of such vast supply causes wrinkles in the economics of power, namely, negative prices on occasions. 

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The single most astounding aspects of the “Trump phenomenon” is that a) members of his support base are hurt hardest by his policies, and b) they don’t seem to care. The steel industry made an impressive comeback after the 2008 …

Will Mass Layoffs in the U.S. Steel Industry Cause Any Political Ripples? Probably Not. Read More »

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A wise-cracking friend of mine in high school used to tell me that I “have a firm grasp on the obvious.” That was the first thing that went through my mind when I came across Jameson McBride’s article that begins: …

We’ll Soon Be Burning More Coal. Sound OK? Read More »

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