A new independent assessment by The Brattle Group of US President Donald Trump’s plan to bail out the country’s coal and nuclear plants has concluded that the cost of such a bailout could balloon to $70 billion over two years.
Renewable energy sources in the United States grew by another 10% in the first half of 2017, according to new figures published by the country’s Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign.
Accompanying my latest report on US electricity generation capacity, this article covers the latest figures on US electricity generation (that is, actual electricity produced, not just production capability). While the capacity numbers come from FERC and my own estimates, the generation data and estimates now come from the US Energy Information … [continued]
Using data from FERC and rooftop solar power estimates of my own*, it seems that 69% of newly installed US electricity generation capacity was from renewable energy power plants, with 67% from solar and wind power. In the month of December, 100% of new power capacity came from wind and … [continued]
Editor’s note: I write about solar and wind power obsessively, almost every day. Still, FERC’s recent numbers came as a bit of a surprise to me. Over 28% of new US power capacity in Q1 was from large-scale solar installations (small- and medium-scale installations would actually boost solar’s percentage of … [continued]
Outages at U.S. nuclear power plants so far in 2012 are generally higher than in recent years because of extended forced outages at four nuclear power plants. U.S. nuclear reactor operators typically schedule refueling and maintenance outages during the spring and fall to help ensure that reactors are available to meet higher electric … [continued]
Other than our dozens and dozens of stories and our other news roundups, here are some more noteworthy cleantech and dirty energy stories from the past week or so: Clean Energy (In General) Aruba has enlisted Sir Richard Branson in a 100% green energy push. “The Caribbean island of … [continued]
A nuclear energy industry veteran, Peter Bradford, recently wrote a strongly worded and pointed article on nuclear energy policy in the journal Nature (subscription required). While he is concerned with a number of approaches to nuclear, from the pro-nuclear side and the anti-nuclear side, it is his comments on the … [continued]
