The Cost Of Half A Billion Solar Panels Keeps Going Down, Down, Down
A new report from NREL demonstrates that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not just blowing smoke with that half-billion solar panel pledge.
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US Presidential Debate: Trump Lies (Again) On Climate Change As Hillary Pushes For Solar Revolution
It’s been about 24 hours since Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head to head in the first US Presidential Debate. It was billed as something close to a heavyweight UFC title match, and it was arguably bloodier than that. I suspect that Conor McGregor would have been … [continued]
The Energy Policies Of The 2016 US Presidential Candidates
Originally published on Thoughts of a Lapsed Physicist. By Allan R. Hoffman, author of the recently published book The U.S. Government and Renewable Energy: A Winding Road When I was born, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was President of the United States. Since then I have lived through many presidential elections, … [continued]
Canada Adopts Carbon Pricing — Possible North American Hat Trick?
Canada’s federal environment minister Catherine McKenna made a huge announcement Sunday on Canadian television’s Question Period. The central government in Ottawa has come out for nationwide carbon pricing. It will soon levy a minimum national carbon price on any province that lacks adequate plans to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. … [continued]
Mexico Will Launch Carbon Pricing In November
On Monday, September 7 (the Labor Day holiday in the US), the government of Mexico announced that the nation “south of the border” would soon join the growing ranks of countries that have adopted cap and trade to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Mexico’s pilot carbon pricing program will begin … [continued]
US & China Ratify Paris Agreement Early
The news broke this morning that the United States and China have renewed their global leadership on climate change by jointly announcing their ratifications of the Paris Agreement on climate change ahead of schedule. The prediction we made last week about the landmark international climate agreement has thus come to pass. In a … [continued]
The Climate Policy Rift On The Left
For years, climate policy was a simple “Left” versus “Right” battle. On the Right, we had a long list of climate deniers, and on the Left, climate and clean energy policies. Congressional Republicans could be relied on to obstruct whatever climate and clean energy legislation Democrats proposed, from cap and trade to … [continued]
Global Non-Hydro Renewable Electricity Up 70% From 2010–2015
By Meteor Blades A study commissioned by the Financial Times shows that the planet’s 20 largest national economies generated 8% of their electricity from renewable energy — solar, wind, and other green power sources — in 2015, up from 4.6% in 2010. (This does not include hydropower.) There are huge differences … [continued]
GOP EPA Chiefs Endorse Clinton over Trump’s “Profound Ignorance of Science”
Originally published on Planetsave. Endorsing Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, two former EPA chiefs, both Republicans, are warning that Donald Trump’s energy policy “would set the world back decades.” William D. Ruckelshaus, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Presidents Nixon and Reagan, and William K. Reilly, EPA … [continued]
New “Large Virus” Thin Film Solar Strategy Pays Off For NIST Team
A common polymer the thickness of a large virus could bring about a “sustainable revolution” of low cost, high volume, rapid payback solar cells
