We often define the value of something, including our clean energy investments, through a very limited cost-benefit analysis: What are my expenses …
Renewable Energy Update – August 2019
Renewable energy sources – biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind – accounted for more than a fifth (20.3 percent) of net domestic …
How The Clean Energy Transition Could Save More Than It Costs
Jonathan Adelman, the eight-state utility’s vice president of strategic planning, told Greentech Media that the incremental cost of renewable energy …
100% Renewable Energy, Tesla in the Early Days — #CleantechTalk with Mark Z. Jacobson
When Mark Jacobson started to think critically about the role of renewable energy in the future of global energy dependency, he refused to think in …
Tokyo gov’t office switches to biomass source for 80% of electricity
Thirty million kilowatt hours of renewable energy will be supplied to the Tokyo government’s two main buildings and the metropolitan assembly hall, …
DNREC issues $45000 fine to Bloom Energy
They also guaranteed a revenue stream to Bloom through a “renewable energy” surcharge on Delmarva Power customers, even though Bloom’s fuel …
UN and IRENA join forces to accelerate renewable energy uptake
The UN is joining forces with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to ramp up efforts to fight climate change by promoting the …
Wind Energy Collapsing In Germany
The expansion of wind power in the first half of this year collapsed to its lowest level since the introduction of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) in 2000 …
Hotels check into greener power sources
While some hotels are ramping up their captive renewable energy-generation efforts (energy conservation rules mandate hotels to install solar panels …
Mkhwebane’s probe into Eskom’s IPPs should reignite the call for socially owned renewable energy
In a context of rising unemployment, reported to be 29% by Statistics South Africa, the highest since 2008, the renewable energy sector has the …