Wind power and solar power are increasingly the most cost-competitive options for new electricity generation, and the installation numbers for the first 5 months of 2015 are just another way of showing that. Based on data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and SEIA/GTM Research, I’ve just produced my latest … [continued]
Originally published on Red, Green and Blue by Acadia Otlowski Residents of New York state need not worry, there will be no fracking in New York. The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) banned the practice by issuing the final document needed to ban the practice. The state DEC … [continued]
The United Nations hosts another high-level event today Monday, June 29, in New York to help steer a widening coalition of global efforts to limit the damage and adapt to the challenges of ongoing climate change. This end-of-June meeting is not part of the critical negotiation process that will culminate … [continued]
Top segment originally published on Planetsave.com. Releasing this exclusive freely in the public interest, best-selling author Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is offering a unique view of the critically significant impact that climate change is having on our lives, our livelihoods, and even our likelihood of survival on this planet. Dr Nafeez Ahmed is … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org If your electricity—generated from imported oil—is the most expensive in the country and your solar resource is terrific, you’d expect your electric company to be making great strides toward renewable energy. On Hawai’i, the progress toward clean energy is in limbo, because island’s largest electric utility—largely … [continued]
The new EPA fracking report was not designed to make friends in the oil and gas industry, it’s a cry for help that underscores an information black hole.
ExxonMobil may have dropped the ball on renewables but as demonstrated by a new energy security report, the US Army is more than willing to pick it up.
Why the Keystone pipeline is toast: fossil industry digs in its heels, but US Secretary of State John Kerry proposes an end run around carbon pricing.
As I mentioned yesterday, I think that Renewable Cities was the best conference I’ve ever attended. A huge reason for that was how practically oriented it was — there was a repeated emphasis on taking home for practical implementation lessons, information, and very specific suggestions from other forum participants. As just … [continued]
One of the things I was very interested in hearing Michael Liebreich talk about when we sat down for a long chat over dinner in Abu Dhabi (during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week) was the origin of Bloomberg New Energy Finance and how it grew from a humble startup (initially named … [continued]
