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.
Störfall mit Charme—The Story of the Schönau Electricity Revolt–A Review
By
Paul Gipe
The title, Störfall mit Charme, is a playful thumbing of the nose in German at the critics of a movement by citizens in a small village in the deepest reaches of Germany’s Schwarzwald or Black Forest to dump nuclear power and build a renewable energy future.
Nuclear cannot keep up with wind, and solar is coming next
By
Craig Morris
Even countries with long-standing nuclear aims are adding wind power much faster, as Brazil, China, and India show. Those interested in the fastest way to mitigate climate change can forget nuclear.
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.
