It will be seven years this summer that we’ve been covering the rapid migration from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Here’s yet another article that underscores exactly how profound this shift is, and how quickly it’s occurring. Meanwhile, US coal …
Category: Renewables – Business
Pure Market Forces Are Catapulting Renewable Energy Forward
I know there were those who doubted the overall premise of my most recent book: “Bullish on Renewable Energy,” i.e., that free-market economic forces alone are in the process of propelling renewable energy past fossil fuels in terms of our …
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Cost-Effective Renewable Energy Is Today’s Reality
Here’s something I wish every person on Earth could understand, i.e., how very, very close we are to a total migration from fossil fuels into renewable energy. This guy, in particular, speaks about the continuing free-fall of solar PV prices …
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Ideologies that Further Environmental Sustainability Are Actually Good Things
In response to an earlier piece, a staunch advocate of free-market economics objected to the notion of a government’s making policy that phases out fossil fuels in favor of renewables, on the basis that it’s an “ideology,” and notes: “Losers …
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2GreenEnergy’s Newsletters Attempt To Keep People Guessing
In connection with my post, “A Chilling Lesson From Two of History’s Most Important Philosophers,” a reader from Florida notes: Hi Craig, Wow! Had to read that a couple of times.” I wrote: Glad you liked it! (I use exclamation …
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Market Positioning
When I deliver a market positioning service for a client, I’m creating an instant recognition of the product or service by means of comparison to something that’s already well known and appreciated in the mind of the recipient. A dear …
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From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Green Practices for Businesses–Resources to Utilize and Implement
The environment has become a very big concern in the world we live in. People and businesses alike are finally realizing that we cannot continue to abuse this planet the way we have been for many decades. Many politicians have …
Short Note on Writing
Yesterday was the birthday of feminist author Gloria Steinem, who said, “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” Obviously, I don’t compare the quality of my writing to …
Alarming Report from McKinsey on the Grid-Mix in Years To Come
Here’s a report from consulting giant McKinsey that suggests fossil fuels will continue to dominate the grid mix in 2040, because they will remain the cheapest and most reliable energy resources. The report correctly points to developments in nuclear energy …
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More on Subsidies for the Oil Companies
A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. …
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