News & Articles on Renewable Energy
My specialty is wind energy, but I have worked with all forms of renewable energy. Over the years I’ve written about a number of renewable technologies, including solar and geothermal energy. In recent years I’ve focused on comprehensive renewable energy policies that develop a mix of renewable resources. I’ve also written about our use of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid
By
Aaron Sheldrick, Osamu Tsukimori
A northern Japanese city’s efforts to rebuild its electric power system after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami mark a quiet shift away from the country’s old utility model toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission.
Comments by Bernard Saulnier on the Book Energy Democracy
By
Paul Gipe
In response to my review of Energy Democracy, a new book on Germany’s energy revolution by Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann, long-time colleague Bernard Saulnier contacted me with his thoughts.
Germany must go back to its low-carbon future
By
Claudia Kemfert
Once a world leader in renewables, the nation will miss all of its environmental goals unless the next government realigns its energy policies.
An Overlooked Solution for Competitive and Local Renewable Power
By
Karlee Weinmann
The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which dates to 1978, requires all utilities to buy power from qualifying small-scale clean energy producers when the price roughly matches what a utility pays to generate and deliver its own electricity, or what it would pay a third-party provider.
Energy Democracy, by Craig Morris & Arne Jungjohann: A Review
By
Paul Gipe
Is one of the most powerful books on the renewable energy revolution in decades. It’s a chronicle of the remarkable transformation underway in the world’s fourth-largest industrial economy.
Solar & Wind Subsidies = Less Than $0 In USA … Because Clean Energy Saves Lives!
By
Zachary Shahan
This article is focused on just a few externalities and subsidies related to the production of electricity — including the economic costs of premature death from pollution.
