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.
Did Germany just surpass 100% renewable power?
By
Craig Morris
Just a week after reporting a peak of more than 90 percent renewable power, Agora now shows for the first time that green electricity may have briefly touched and slightly surpassed 100% yesterday.
We are all Albertans now
By
Kurt Cobb
The source of the current catastrophe is that the boreal forest which surrounds the tar sands has been turned into a tinderbox because of increasingly warm, dry weather that used to be uncharacteristic of this area of Alberta.
UK renewable energy auctions system discredited by offshore windfarm contract fiasco
By
Dave Toke
The Government’s much vaunted ‘contracts for difference’ (CfD) auction system for funding renewable energy has been thrown into disrepute after a key project awarded a contract has had its contract cancelled by a government agency.
Renewable Windfall as Germany’s Green Energy Meets 90 Percent of Demand
By
Lauren Mccauley
Sunday’s milestone was made possible because of a people-powered “energy revolution.”
Lessons from Germany’s Energiewende
By
Volkmar Lauber and Staffan Jacobsson
This chapter in The Triple Challenge for Europe focuses on the German Energiewende which was designed as a long-term strategy in support of a transition to sustainability in energy supply. It was also a response to the challenge of globalization in that it aimed to improve Germany’s competitive position by stimulating the development of new capital goods industries and reducing fossil-fuel imports. Hence, Energiewende is a way to meet the triple challenge in the field of energy. During its first decades, it was successful in enabling the deployment of a range of new technologies, the formation of innovative capital goods…
Renewables ‘too much power’ problem is really nuclear’s fault
By
Dave Toke
So let’s get this right, the Torygraph is saying that nuclear power plant can’t or won’t turn down their power stations, so it’s windfarms and solar farms that are the problem?
