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.
Donald Trump Investing Big in Wind Energy?
By
Adam Siegel
Last week, we got a peek at Trump’s infrastructure plan, which included infrastructure projects that he considers a priority. Three of those are wind-related projects.
Clean energy or renewable energy? The label matters!
By
Craig Morris
So 12 years ago, Lakoff himself would have told his younger colleague Wehling that trading in “renewables” for “clean energy” is Orwellian.
The end of the Energiewende is back
By
Craig Morris
Yet again, an expert – this time, a German – says Germany’s energy transition cannot succeed. He has a surprising insight for Energiewende proponents: the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. How could we have missed that?
Solar provides 4.3% of Japan’s electricity during 2016
By
Christian Roselund
Japan’s Renewable Energy Institute has published data on renewable energy’s contribution to the nation’s energy mix, using data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The METI data shows solar PV rising to 4.3% of electricity production over the course of 2016, a dramatic increase from 2015, when PV represented only 2.7% of production.
German Policy Failure
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
As Hans-Josef Fell points out in this comment, renewable sources provided 186 TWh in 2016. That’s not bad, but only 3 TWh over the result of 2015. That’s stagnation. And it shows that the move to an auction model from 2014 on is a policy failure.
Germany’s Energy Transition A Comparative Perspective
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This book analyzes Germany’s path-breaking Energiewende, the country’s transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany’s commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made the transition possible.
