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.
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.
Canada well on its way to a renewable-energy future
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Christopher Barrington-leigh, Mcgill University
The bottom line: There is plenty of renewable-energy potential near current roads, power lines and population centres. Most of it is wind power, with plenty of hydro and solar as well.
Energy New Deal
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
So even if you think global warming was a hoax the Chinese invented for April fool’s day in 2016, you should still support a fast transition to renewable. This transition makes sense as a nationalist policy. It also creates quite a lot of jobs that can’t be outsourced to some other country, since they are based on installing renewable energy infrastructure.
Energiewende MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
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Craig Morris, Iass Potsdam
28 youtube.com videos on the Energiewende with an emphasis on the Electricity Rebels who sparked a renewable energy revolution in Germany.
Horrible Harmful EU Commission Proposal
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
I also note that the proposal still includes “feed-in tariffs” in the definition of “support schemes”, which remains completely unchanged.
