Texas has set yet another record wind generating day in a long string of such days, reaching 12.97 GW on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), wind turbines in Texas set a state-record for wind generated electricity of 12.97 GW. The … [continued]
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Chairman of the Advisory Board, Michael Liebreich, has mostly praised renewable energy in his year-end review. At the beginning of each year, Michael Liebreich publishes a list of his top 10 predictions and forecasts for the coming years’ renewable energy industry performance. Closing out the year, … [continued]
Wind power production in Germany is at record levels — so high that electricity from it tied with electricity from lignite-burning power plants in the month of November. Both were reported to have generated 11.4 TWh, though the final official stats won’t be published until 2016. The other electricity sources were: Hard coal – 8.6 … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. Less than one week after the strongest climate agreement ever, House Speaker Paul Ryan has brought forward a spending package that could end the annual struggle over renewable tax incentives. Wind and solar would receive 5-year extensions. The price: cutbacks to the IRS, Obamacare, the EPA, and lift … [continued]
Can we really generate most of our power from renewables in a few decades? In a word, yes. But to understand further, we must understand how we produce and distribute power today. Part of the difficulty lies in the concepts we use to understand the electrical power system. A simple … [continued]
The Climate Challenge Green growth will come, just not the way we might think. Despite the enthusiasm around the recent Paris agreements, climate policy is at an impasse. It seems as though binding targets for all countries to limit warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees are not politically negotiable – at … [continued]
Green market design is the need of the hour. Renewables and energy efficiency solutions have reached meaningful parity with conventional energy sources in many parts of the world. The timing is extremely opportune. It presents a historic coincidence. Firstly, just now, many fast-developing countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and … [continued]
Chinese performance artist Brother Nut has all of Beijing talking about his repurposing of air pollutants into bricks for building.
The division between developing and developed countries has been a core feature of the global climate talks since the first meeting (COP) in Berlin in 1995. Back then, low-carbon technologies were considered far too expensive for poor developing countries and would have constrained their growth options. And besides: it was the … [continued]
We’ve finally relaunched Cleantech Talk! And there are two new co-hosts for the show — Kyle Field and Matthew Klippenstein. You can listen to this week’s episode on iTunes, on SoundCloud, or by clicking the play button in the embedded player below. You can also leave a comment at any … [continued]
