If we want to talk seriously about mitigating climate change, there are going to be a lot of oxen gored. The energy producers, of course, will be up in arms. The utilities, too. Everyone of them wants to do it their way, which doesn’t benefit from distributed generation. That we would expect. Some related industries Read More
Tag Archives: Climate change
Climate Change in Dollars and Sense
The cost of climate change on one critical sector of our economy — the electrical grid — lends additional credence to the value of distributed generation. Read the full article.
Energy Industry Stumped by Trump
The energy industry shares the uncertainty our new Administration has brought to our lives and livelihoods, as policy is yet to be formulated and campaign sloganeering gets sorted out. Read more here
Subsidizing Deception
Changing the way we do things is always a challenge. Sizing up the best thing we can do to solve a problem isn’t easy. If we make the right choice and have the solution in mind, the rest should be easy. But, it isn’t. The moment of change is when we bump up – hard Read More
Harbinger: Signs of Change
Harbinger. I first heard the word when I was eight or nine. I asked my mother what it meant. “A sign,” she said. “Like the first robin of spring.” In my boyhood home of Colorado, where the winters could be long, the coming of warm weather, the melting of all that snow, was a sign Read More
Converting from Coal to Natural Gas
Not everyone supports the concept of a bridge fuel. Read more about the perspective of the Sierra Club here
Floating Cities of the Future
What to do about climate change? There are any number of thoughtful responses to mitigating the problem, and some more fanciful plans for dealing with it and moving on. The impact of rising sea levels on coastal communities can be explored here One proposed response can be seen here Will all the coastal cities of Read More
Renewable Energy Growth in the Time of Trump
Regardless of federal policy, renewable energy growth as a portion of the nation’s electricity providers will continue unabated, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. You can read its assessment here
Wind Vision Calculations
The National Renewable Energy Lab has released new calculations that suggest wind energy could supply one-third of the nation’s electricity by 2050. You can read the article here