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Tag: Energy Transition


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

100% Renewable Energy for 139 Nations Detailed in Stanford Report

August 31, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

Mark Z. Jacobson, the famed professor at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, and 26 of his colleagues have compiled a report that shows exactly how 139 nations could transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050 without […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

Corporate Green Goals Playing A Key Role In Pushing Utilities Toward Renewables

May 30, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

The Trump administration’s budget proposal for the coming year threatens to do exactly what the president promised as a candidate: eviscerate federal funding for climate change programs. The Energy Department’s highly successful renewable energy office would be particularly hard hit, […]


News and Policies, U.S.

Benefiting from Green Jobs

April 19, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

The renewable energy industry and its proponents regularly draw attention to the industry’s job creation potential. For example, the American Wind Energy Association reported that the US wind industry supported 88,000 jobs at the start of 2016, a 20% increase […]


Energy Consumption, Global

Peak Oil? Sooner Than You Think

March 27, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

The London-based investment advisory firm Redburn thinks that global demand for oil could peak around 2026, writes Fereidoon Sionshansi, President of Menlo Energy Economics and publisher of the newsletter EEnergy Informer. The implications for oil majors are ominous. For some […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels, Mainstream technologies, Nuclear, Renewable Energy

The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” Delusion

February 1, 2017

Via: Energy Collective

The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” story is based on a long list of misunderstandings and apples to oranges comparisons. Somehow, people seem to believe that our economy of 7.5 billion people can get along with a very short […]