As I’ve mentioned, I receive several new clean energy business concepts per week, mostly rooted in proven technology. The scientific mechanisms behind solar, wind, biomass, hydrokinetics and geothermal are all very well-established, and have been for a great period of …
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Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy
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Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
Times Are Changing Quickly in the Power Utility Space
One of our interns who spent the summer working on our companion site SustainabilityRoleModels.com wrote a good article on Southern California Edison’s numerous sustainability initiatives, and arranged for me to speak with one of SCE’s spokespeople, Evan Birenbaum. Late yesterday, …
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Tagged with: biomass resources, demand response, Edison International, Evan Birenbaum, geothermal, integration of electric vehicles, investor-owned utility, IOU, micro-grids, minimizing the ecological effects of delivering power, renewable energy procurement, renewable power sources, SCE’s parent company, small hydropower, smart meters, solar energy, solar energy giant Socore, Southern California Edison, sustainability initiatives, SustainabilityRoleModels.com, Wind Energy, wind farms in Tehachapi
New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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What’s Not Wrong with Wind
A reader by the name of Jerry sent in this article “What’s Not Wrong with Wind” and suggested that it would amplify some of the points I made in my recent piece “Is Wind a Scam?” Thanks, Jerry.
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From Guest Blogger Tina Samuels: Which States are Getting Wind Energy Right?
According to the American Wind Energy Association, the last quarter of 2012 brought the total wind installations for 2012 to 13,131 megawatts of power. This influx of new power extends the total of cumulative wind capacity for the United States …
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U.S. President Obama: Sounding Good on Energy and the Environment
Here’s a headline from the syndicated news show “Democracy Now” along with a few comments: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil what it calls a major initiative on tackling climate change. The White House says President Obama will soon …
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Tagged with: action on global warming, Clean Air Act, Democracy Now, Environmental Protection Agency, greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants, Guantanamo Bay, Keystone XL Pipeline, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama all-of-the-above, progressive energy policy, renewable energy from clean sources, robo-prosecution of whistleblowers, solar power, U.S. President Obama on Energy and the Environment, unwarranted surveillance, White House coordinator for energy and climate change Heather Zichal, Wind Energy
Renewable Energy and Moral Character
Those of us who follow renewable energy would like to think that participants in the industry are of a higher moral character than those in the 20th Century forms of energy that are now being replaced. While that may be …
Renewable Energy Infographic
I’m always on the lookout for good infographics on renewable energy. I just came across the one I linked above, but it’s flawed for several reasons: • It treats as separate items things like “hydro” and “biomass” (sources of energy) with …
Solar Thermal Towers: One Is Good, Several Is Better
As a set of technologies, solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP), lags at least a couple of decades behind the more mature industries of wind energy and photovoltaics. That means that we can expect lots of interesting advancements as …
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