Utah has taken a significant step in expanding residential solar energy options with the passage of House Bill 340 (H.B. 340), known as the Solar Power Amendments. Signed into law on March 25, 2025, by Governor Spencer Cox, this legislation introduces a new category for small, portable solar generation devices, … [continued]
Mark Z. Jacobson has proposed converting the entire energy production of the world to clean energy. He regards “Wind, Water, and Solar” (WWS) as the only methods that can do this practically, quickly, and economically. Of those, hydroelectric power is the only relatively continuous source, but it cannot be easily … [continued]
I believe in the clean power bible written by Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University. He explains why wind, water, and solar are the only practical and economical means he believes can convert the world efficiently, quickly, and economically to clean energy. He has eliminated other popular green energy items … [continued]
Construction of a solar farm and soon an electrical energy storage facility. Green River Energy Center. Ferron, Emery County, East Central, Utah
Not far from one of the most beautiful spots in the world, Arches National Park (as shown in the photo below), Moab, the Green River, and the Colorado River, there is a massive new green energy project, the Green River Energy Center, which is under construction (as shown in the … [continued]
Solar farm and energy storage facility. Green River Energy Center. Castle Dale, Emery County, East Central, Utah
Near some of the most beautiful spots in the world, the San Rafael Swell and Arches National Park (as shown in the two photos in the figure below) Moab, the Green River and the Colorado River, there is a massive new green energy project, the Green River Energy Center, which … [continued]
Mark Z. Jacobson from Stanford University has explained why investments in wind, water, and solar are the only feasible ways to convert the US and the world to clean energy. However, even the best technologies come with environmental impacts. With encouragement from the federal government, private industry has recently made … [continued]
There is a strange confluence of clean energy and pork production near Milford, Utah, 208 miles south of Salt Lake City, and 30 miles west of Beaver. Located there, just north of Milford in Beaver County, is the largest solar farm in Utah. It is the Escalante Solar Project, which … [continued]
In my travels across the country, I’ve seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy … [continued]
The emerging field of enhanced geothermal energy is providing oil and gas frackers with an opportunity to use their power for decarbonization, not extraction.
In winter on the Utah Wasatch Front, on average we have 5 days, particularly in Salt Lake County, when the air is unsafe to breathe. There are another 18 days, on average, when the air is only “bad” to breathe. You will find naysayers like our President Elect who will … [continued]
