Covering solar power, wind power, and electric vehicles obsessively for ~10 years, I have run across some fascinating observations regarding these technologies and the transitions we are going through — and then I’ve subsequently forgotten many of them. This article is centered around one of the coolest observations I’ve run across, which slipped my mind for a while but just came back to the forefront this week.
Rocky Mountain Institute. By Laurie Guevara-Stone. 2014 is predicted to be the first year in history that non-hydro renewable generation exceeds hydropower generation in the United States. This is a big change—only a decade ago hydropower produced three times as much electricity in the U.S. as the combined contributions of … [continued]
Rocky Mountain Institute By Robert McIntosh & Koben Calhoun New RMI/GTRI analysis shows how to reduce U.S. solar PV costs through installation labor efficiency Download the report In 2013, the United States installed more solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity than either Germany or Australia for the first time ever. (The U.S. has triple … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Jules Kortenhorst Earlier this week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced new guidelines under the Clean Air Act limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. The move comes in the wake of the federal government’s Third National Climate Assessment, exposing the serious risk climate … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Dan Seif and James Mandel When people say “Keep Austin weird” they really mean keep it small and special. And we’re all for keeping Austin weird as it’s a cool city with awesome music. While utility scale solar finance is still “weird” in that it involves … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Jules Kortenhorst Let me start this blog by quoting—verbatim—several key conclusions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 2013, also known as the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed … [continued]
Amory Lovins is one of the top clean energy and energy efficiency leaders in the world, as the introduction in the hour-long video below makes clear. Yale recently hosted Lovins for the great speech in the video. Yale Environment 360 also interviewed Lovins around that time. The video is … [continued]
Some more top cleantech stories from around, to kick off the week:
This is a pretty sweet new video from the Rocky Mountain Institute on our transition to a clean energy economy (already taking place, but how much more we can and need to do):
