Here’s an article in a newsletter for angel investors that describes how the plummeting cost of solar and wind is signalling the end of government subsidies.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Change always provokes counter-attack, and the more money is at stake, the more ferocious the reprisal. As anyone could have predicted, the growing dominance of solar and wind, based largely on their plummeting costs, is quite correctly perceived as a …
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Earth Day Is A Reminder of Decades of Wonderful Progress, But a Year of Tragic Regression
Though the environmental atrocities of the Trump administration will not survive too long after his presidency comes to an end, it certainly is painful to watch our skies and waterways flooded with poisons of all types. (Here’s a bit of …
Government Regulation Is the Driver in a Great Deal of Cleantech Development
The common wisdom among those following the migration to electric transportation is that large commercial vehicles will be the very last to make that transition. Here to challenge that notion is my colleague Jon LeSage, whose current edition of Green …
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Macro-Trends in Energy and the Environment
A friend who had been out of town just returned and asked what I’ve been observing in terms of energy and the environment, to which I respond: I can’t say that there’s anything new. There are huge forces pulling in both …
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One Utility’s Position on Renewable Energy
Jesse Berst of Smart Grid News fame is one of the good guys. He’s smart, level-headed, and always working hard to improve the industry overall. In this article on PNM, the power utility that serves New Mexico, Jesse points out …
