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Tag: green energy


Domestic, Energy Consumption

Interconnection Cost-Causer-Pays Model: Is It Fair or Antiquated in the Era of Grid Modernization

February 1, 2024

Via: Power Magazine

The transition to green energy is often seen through two different lenses: a burden or an opportunity. Grid modernization refers to a comprehensive transformation of the traditional power grid to upgrade aging infrastructure to enhance reliability, resilience, efficiency, and sustainability […]


Energy Consumption, Global

Ensuring a just green energy transition in emerging economies

December 13, 2021

Via: Renewable Energy World

Emerging economy countries face the undeniably huge task to transition their economies to be cleaner and more sustainable. This transition, however, will impact jobs in fossil fuel-based energy production and could, if not considered from a social perspective, negatively impact […]


Domestic, Energy Consumption

Rooftop Solar and Energy Storage Are Not Republican or Democrat, They’re American

December 2, 2021

Via: Power Magazine

There is a common misperception that “green energy” appeals mostly to liberals. However, at least some of the facts don’t support that view. A case in point can be found in the rooftop solar sector. “It’s not Republican or Democratic. […]


Emerging Technologies, Renewable Energy

Canada’s geothermal energy opportunity

August 31, 2021

Via: Renewable Energy World

Geothermal energy is naturally occurring heat that exists within the interior of the Earth. It is produced primarily from two sources. There is the primordial heat that remains from the formation of the Earth and that continues to emanate from […]


News and Policies, State

How Texas Turned Green

August 20, 2020

Via: Greentech Media

Texas, home of the U.S. oil and gas industry, has become a clean energy superpower. The state already leads the nation in wind-power generation and solar is booming. Last year, Texas generated more electricity from renewable energy sources than from […]


News and Policies, U.S.

Microsoft announces firm’s single largest green energy PPA

July 22, 2020

Via: PV Resources

Microsoft has unveiled its single largest renewable energy portfolio investment through a new deal with US energy firm Sol Systems. The power purchase agreement (PPA) will see Sol Systems finance, develop and operate a portfolio of over 500MW of solar […]


News and Policies, State

New York issues record-breaking solicitations for renewable energy

July 22, 2020

Via: PV Resources

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the largest combined green energy solicitations ever issued in the US, seeking up to 4GW of renewable capacity to combat climate change. While the majority of the solicitations’ combined total – 2.5GW – […]


News and Policies, State

California Looks to Double Green Energy Capacity, Cut Emissions by 2030

April 14, 2020

Via: Energy Collective

New solar and storage facilities—and no new gas plant approvals—are the cornerstones of California’s recently-released plan to drastically reduce emissions to just 46 megatonnes by 2030, and hit a 100% renewable energy target by 2045. “California’s green energy fleet is […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

Post-Pandemic Employment Will Hinge on Green Energy as Fossil Jobs Slide

April 14, 2020

Via: Energy Collective

With projected oilfield job losses of 30% by the end of 2020, the fossil sector is likely to remain highly embattled after the threat of COVID-19 has abated, with little ability to create new jobs. But the job-intensive green energy […]


Energy Economics

Election-Year Politics Fires Up Mega-Energy Bill. Its Chances?

March 9, 2020

Via: Forbes

Spring is in the air. But it feels like Christmas on Capitol Hill. An enormous energy bill is now pending in the U.S. Senate — one that incorporates more than 50 previously introduced provisions, including giving money to green energy, […]


Energy Economics

A Millennial’s Perspective on the Green New Deal

December 27, 2019

Via: Energy Collective

The Green New Deal is getting a lot more attention as we get into the 2020 Presidential election. The Green New Deal is a set of proposed economic stimulus programs in the United States with a goal of addressing climate […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

A Third Of All Americans Live Somewhere That Will Use 100% Green Energy

November 14, 2019

Via: Forbes

The clean energy movement is getting most of its traction nowadays at the local level, where cities and states are behind the sharp spike in demand for renewable energy. And now at least a dozen states and districts and 200 […]


Electric, Energy Consumption, News and Policies, State

Message To Ohio Electricity Customers — Stop Closing Nuclear Plants

June 14, 2019

Via: Forbes

Debate rages in the Ohio Legislature over Ohio House Bill 6, legislation that is highly misunderstood. The bill, passed by the Ohio House May 29, would sunset the State’s prescriptive renewable-only subsidies and green energy mandates in favor of a […]


Commercialization, Commercialization, Conventional Fuels, Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

May 29, 2019

Via: Forbes

The cost of renewable energy has tumbled even further over the past year, to the point where almost every source of green energy can now compete on cost with oil, coal and gas-fired power plants, according to new data released […]


Domestic, Electric, Energy Consumption

Green new deal electricity – what really bothers the feds

April 16, 2019

Via: Renewable Energy News

For more than 100 years, electricity has been reliably provided to end users through a centralized generation and transmission model. Large coal, hydro and (later) nuclear generating facilities produced huge amounts of electricity and, through a spider’s web of high […]


News and Policies, U.S.

Green Energy Tide Sweeps Rural America Despite Pushback From Trump

December 11, 2018

Via: Forbes

The Trump administration may be denying that humans contribute to climate change. But the marketplace is fully accepting such scientific findings. It’s true even in Trump country — or the midwestern United States — that is placing its bets with […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

Renewables face increasingly level playing field

November 2, 2018

Via: Petroleum Economist

Opponents of renewable energy—a broad church that can stretch from economists lamenting subsidies’ distortion of competitive markets to climate-change-science deniers, and from hydrocarbons industry incumbents to uncompromising single-issue environmental lobbies—have a problem. Their inconvenient truth is that these technologies are […]


News and Policies, State

California’s New 100% Green Energy Target May Do More Harm Than Good

September 21, 2018

Via: Forbes

California governor Jerry Brown just signed a bill (Senate Bill 100) that would eliminate fossil fuels from the state’s electric grid entirely by 2045. That’s a tall order for a state that consumes 206 billion kilowatt hours (bn kWh) of […]


News and Policies, U.S.

Corporations Increase Green Energy Purchases, Overshadowing Trump’s Environmental Policies

August 9, 2018

Via: Forbes

In an effort to combat climate change and to satisfy customer demand, the corporate community is expected to buy 7.2 gigawatts of green energy this year, which surpasses the roughly 5.4 gigawatts it purchased in 2017. The movement is taking […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

Is Reliable Energy Storage On The Horizon?

June 19, 2018

Via: Forbes

Green and renewable energy markets are bringing power to millions with virtually no adverse environmental impacts, but before we can count on renewables for widespread reliability, one critical innovation must arrive: storage. While hydroelectric and some other renewable sources can […]