Originally published on ilsr.org. Most microgrids today are single buildings that rely on diesel generators to run when the grid is out. They’re simple backup, redundant power. But some more advanced microgrids, such as the Clean Coalition’s planned community microgrids, are looking into the future, when multiple sources of generation can … [continued]
Originally published on Red, Green, & Blue. By Meteor Blades The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The three companies — Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, and Alpha Natural … [continued]
What does it say about the future of the energy industry when two former executives in the brown coal industry switch teams, so to speak, and head up solar and clean tech ventures? Perhaps it means that more leaders are starting to see the writing on the wall and are … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath A German – and formerly majority Australian owned – developer of concentrated solar power plants with molten salt storage says it can get the cost of electricity from a utility-scale version of its technology, with 15 hours of thermal energy storage, down to … [continued]
Legendary tech billionaire Bill Gates has been pitching the idea that nuclear energy is the only technology that can prevent global catastrophe.
Australia will export a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in its coal in 2016, all but erasing the little benefit it would accomplish if it met its weak Paris targets. A new analysis from Greenpeace Australia Pacific shows that the billion tonnes of carbon dioxide it will export in its coal … [continued]
The three biggest coal mining companies in the United States depend on federal coal for the vast majority of coal they mine each year. This is the primary conclusion from a new report published this week by Greenpeace, which claims that the biggest coal mining companies in the US depend … [continued]
Originally published by the EIA. Nearly 18 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity was retired in 2015, a relatively high amount compared with recent years. More than 80% of the retired capacity was conventional steam coal. The coal-fired generating units retired in 2015 tended to be older and smaller in … [continued]
Broadly along expected lines, India has yet again increased the tax on coal mined or imported in the country. On 29 February, the Indian Finance Minister tabled a budget proposal to double the tax on coal from Rs 200 (~US$3) to Rs 400 (~US$6) per tonne. This was the third … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath Last week, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists wondered whether the reality of the clean energy transition had finally dawned on the American coal mining industry. His question was prompted by events in the US; but a look at … [continued]
