May 21st, 2019 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
On the evening of July 3, 2018, a wildfire broke out a half mile from the Rocky Mountain Institute office in Basalt, Colorado, in the heart of the Roaring Fork Valley. This fire—dubbed the Lake Christine Fire—spread to engulf more than 12,500 acres and came within minutes of shutting down power to the upper Roaring Fork Valley
January 9th, 2019 | by Joshua S Hill
A new analysis from UK-based website Carbon Brief has found that electricity generation in the United Kingdom last year fell to its lowest level since 1994, while at the same time, renewable energy electricity generation increased to another record high and accounted for an estimated 33% in 2018.
December 10th, 2018 | by Sponsored Content
Last month, we talked about the online platform Kialo and how it is being used to host and facilitate crowdsourced debates on topics as diverse as plastic pollution, whether EVs are better than gasmobiles, the ethics of animal cloning, and whether or not the Muppets Christmas movie is the best Christmas movie ever. You're welcome and I'm sorry for that last one
April 26th, 2018 | by Susanna Schick
I jest, but when a moderator joked that someone had suggested California, Oregon, and Washington secede and become a separate country, everyone had a good, happy laugh. The topic of this year's LABC Sustainability Summit was: Regional Solutions for an Inclusive, Clean Economy. By inclusive, I thought they meant inclusive of all income brackets
July 6th, 2015 | by Joshua S Hill
The International Energy Agency released figures for 2014 electricity generation in the OECD in 2014, highlighting the increase in renewable [&hellip
June 8th, 2015 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on EIA. EIA’s analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) shows that renewables play [&hellip
April 8th, 2015 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on EnergyPost. (Editor’s Note: 2nd chart added.) Spain gets 69% of its electricity generation from zero-carbon sources, reported [&hellip
December 5th, 2014 | by Zachary Shahan
Following up on my first monthly report on US electricity generation by source, here’s the next one. Electricity generation data takes [&hellip
September 29th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s [&hellip
June 11th, 2014 | by Giles Parkinson
Originally published on Renew Economy. This graph below caught our eye – showing not just the increase in installed capacity [&hellip
April 15th, 2014 | by Shrink That Footprint
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. By Lindsay Wilson The new French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently reiterated President Hollande’s plan to [&hellip
July 23rd, 2013 | by Andrew
US society needs to make the right choices today in order to assure adequate, affordable supplies of both energy and water. Pursuing a strategic pathway centered on low-carbon renewable energy resources and energy efficiency gains can get us there, according to a comprehensive study undertaken by the "Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative" (EW3)
May 29th, 2013 | by Joshua S Hill
A brainchild of the Colorado State University’s energy policy Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) and Advanced Energy Economy, the Advanced Energy Legislation [&hellip
January 15th, 2013 | by Joshua S Hill
A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency has found that renewable energy has entered what they are calling [&hellip
October 25th, 2012 | by Tim Tyler
A new study released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) shows that renewable energy use in the U.S [&hellip
September 27th, 2012 | by Joshua S Hill
You may not be aware of it, but a lot of energy production is very reliant upon there being [&hellip
June 6th, 2012 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly. Download CSV Data Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March [&hellip
