How we envision the future of our energy systems is important as this tends to drive our policies and decisions. In a new scientific paper, “Competing principles driving energy futures: Fossil fuel decarbonisation vs. manufacturing learning curves”, published this month in the journal Futures, I contrast two broad energy visions.
The fascinating cleantech evolution of Masdar City continues! Pushing the limits of urban design and community building, Masdar City is pressing forward in its pioneering quest for the highest quality of life with the lowest carbon footprint.
The US electricity behemoth Tennessee Valley Authority plans to spend $8 billion on clean power in the coming years. That’s going to throw a huge monkey wrench into the incoming Trump Administration’s plans for the fossil fuel industry.
The Victorian town of Newstead is seeking proposals from potential project partners who could help refine its plan to reach 100 per cent renewable energy within 5 years, and which could act as a blue-print for other towns in the state to follow.
Seismologists have assembled evidence that connects earthquakes and lingering seismic activity to fracking operations near a previously unknown fault.
NET Power is building what it claims is a no-carbon form of gas generation that’s better than all the rest. It’s broken ground on a 10 MW Texas plant in a consortium with Exelon Generation and Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) to prove its technology.
Following the approval of an ordinance on the matter by the Santa Monica (California) city council, new single-family houses built in the city will be required to be net-zero energy beginning in 2017.
I love my Leaf more every day and I don’t plan to own a gas car ever again. So I thought I’d share a few of my favorite benefits of owning an EV, in addition to the obvious environmental ones.
General Motors announced this week its largest green energy purchase to date, acquiring 50 MW of wind power as the equivalent of the company’s electricity needs at 16 of its US facilities.
Officials of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy have stated that the first-ever wind energy auction in India will be completed by next month. The Solar Energy Corporation of India, responsible for conducting the auction, has already issued the tender documents. The last date for submission of bids is 15 December 2016.
