Glorious blue skies and endless sunshine. Warm, balmy breezes. Isn’t that how you envision Hawai’i? Like the slogan, “Everything’s better in Hawaii,” right? Oops, one thing does dampen the impression of Hawai’i, though: its high cost of living, especially for energy.
Many people are fearing the worst. Trump, an avowed climate denier, has pledged to kill the Clean Power Plan, end clean energy research and development, and pull out of the Paris Agreement. Together, his policies could kneecap national and international efforts to curb global warming.
The US presidential election is over. I know many of you are waiting for my initial comments on what this means for cleantech. Donald Trump’s candidacy has been so devoid of specific policy proposals, he has flip-flopped so many times on a large variety of issues, and he has so little (er … no) experience in government, that this question is more up in the air than not. Nonetheless, I will present several documented facts, some probabilities, and some pure speculation in the article below.
The United States has an election tomorrow. Unfortunately, ~50% of the voting public won’t vote.
You might conclude from its title that The Madhouse Effect, one of the fall’s best book offerings, takes on the US presidential election. You’d be close — the subject does come up repeatedly in the technical and policy discussions — but not quite right. I enjoyed discussing it with the author recently.
An international team of experts weighs in with a strategy for lowering the cost of solar cells by commercializing new perovskite technology.
Originally published on Planetsave. In a press announcement, GRID Alternatives Colorado, an affiliate of the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer, recently announced its support for a comprehensive utility settlement being considered by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to address significant state energy policy issues and increase access to solar power … [continued]
Yet another study confirms the US coal industry collapsed mainly due to competition from cheap natural gas, not from pesky meddling by EPA.
Honeywell announced this week that it has been awarded the contracts for two smart grid projects in Mexico by the country’s federal electrical company. Honeywell has its fingers in a lot of pies at the moment, including smart thermostats in which it is a leading vendor along with Nest Labs … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have achieved Germany’s renewable target for 2025. They already obtain 40% of their energy from renewables on an annual basis. A technological breakthrough, the digitization of industry, will be required to go further. This region of 4.5 million people expects to obtain 70% of its energy from … [continued]
