David Roberts of Grist gave a good TEDx talk recently. Along with a video of this speech and much commentary in text to go along with it (all worth your time), he recently posted his slides for the speech — the slides are great, so I’m reposting them here … [continued]
Joe Romm published a great piece last week on the “schizophrenia” of the Brookings Institution when it comes to the topic of clean energy. As with so many of Joe’s pieces, I don’t have the heart to cut it up — it would just ruin the piece — so … [continued]
Ah, FOX News and GOP politicians at the federal level will harp on clean energy subsidies all day… but won’t drop fossil fuel subsidies for anything (note: many local- and state-level Republicans are actually supporting clean energy industries). But the fact remains: fossil fuel subsidies are much larger than … [continued]
Interesting turn of events in the UK — cutting solar feed-in tariffs, strongly opposed by the solar energy industry there, seems to be leading to larger solar power plants. “Solar-energy companies are applying to build the U.K.’s biggest projects, sidestepping a cut in state subsidies aimed at limiting new … [continued]
Paul Hockenos of Renewable Energy World had an interesting post recently on who’s really paying for Energiewende (the renewable energy revolution/program in Germany). Paul busts a couple big myths along the way, too. Here are a few key quotes from the piece, with some commentary from myself: “While it is … [continued]
The Florida Green Finance Authority has partnered with the C40-Clinton Climate Initiative and leading communities, San Francisco and Los Angeles County, to launch the Commercial Clean Energy Financing Alliance in an effort to share best practices and bring prudent standards for PACE (property assessed clean energy). “PACE by its very … [continued]
In the next two and half years, Costa Rica is planning to add 100 megawatts of wind power and 40 from hydroelectric. While this amount is a fraction of the 1,000 MW of wind power Uruguay is trying to add in the same time frame, it is still an … [continued]
The Queensland state government has announced that its Solar Bonus Feed-in Tariff scheme will be reduced to 8c per kilowatt-hour for those who submit applications after midnight 9 July 2012. The scheme currently offers solar system owners 44c for every kilowatt-hour of solar electricity that they feed into the power … [continued]
If federal legislators are in all that much of a hurry to create new jobs, they could hopscotch over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and lend some more support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency has just announced a new round of funding for 450 “shovel ready” energy … [continued]
In a new report on U.S. CLEAN (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now) programs, I provide a comparison of solar CLEAN Contract (feed-in tariff) rates across the United States. Comparing published rates is not particularly helpful, however, because contract lengths vary (from 15 to 25 years) and the solar resource … [continued]
