The idea of hitting 100% renewable energy (yes, energy, not just electricity) scares a lot of people. That is, a lot of people don’t think their cities or countries can achieve 100% renewable energy. However, a leading energy researcher at Stanford has led teams of researchers in order to practically … [continued]
Getting to 100% renewable energy in the US by 2050 is a goal that is gaining traction among the US public. Reports from many environmental organizations have been written on how to get to this target, including from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Foundation. After last year’s COP21 conference, the momentum has … [continued]
Keystone, schmeystone, Part Deux: marine energy is yet another vast untapped clean power resource in the USA and the Obama Administration is tapping it.
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Leading marine renewable energy company Minesto and its partners have received €5.1 million to further develop the Deep Green tidal kite technology. Swedish-based Minesto, along with its eight partners, will use the €5.1 million to improve the Deep Green technology’s robustness and performance with the aim of developing the next generation Deep … [continued]
As you are probably well aware, the good folks at The Solutions Project have published plans for how each of the 50 states in the US could switch to 100% renewable energy. Importantly, they didn’t just paint a broad stroke — they actually looked at electricity needs by region in 15-minute segments for the … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org If your electricity—generated from imported oil—is the most expensive in the country and your solar resource is terrific, you’d expect your electric company to be making great strides toward renewable energy. On Hawai’i, the progress toward clean energy is in limbo, because island’s largest electric utility—largely … [continued]
While solar and wind sweep ahead, leading the game-changers of the renewable energy market, one fresh but valuable resource is building up momentum as well — wave energy. The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Program is looking to help grow that momentum, and registration is now open for the new Wave … [continued]
Over the past 15 years, many organizations have offered national and global predictions about the future of renewable energy. We’ve seen renewable forecasts from all of these groups: International Energy Agency, Global Energy Assessment Scenario Database, US Energy Information Administration, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, ExxonMobil, and Many others. All have … [continued]
Since the days when we humans learned to use fire and developed six simple machines, we have progressed a lot in our ability to harness external sources of energy. In fact, we have defined and redefined its use. But what is energy? Scientists define it as “the ability to do … [continued]
