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.
The politics of renewable electricity in the UK
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Matthew Lockwood
The politics of renewable electricity in the UK: the roles of policy feedback and institutional context
After Ozymandias: Will Britain’s Labour Party Miss the Energy Revolution?
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Alan Simpson
Alan Simpson has posted another insightful and witty skewering of British political elites–this time in the Labour Party. As a former Labour MP himself, his essay is as much a cri de coeur from one of their own as a warning to the party’s leadership that they might well fall into the trap set for them by the Tories and become locked into a policy straight jacket.
Renewables International: No time for fact checking at the New York Times
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Craig Morris
The NYT has published another grossly inaccurate article about the European Union, and Germany in particular, in which the author mainly displays her personal agenda. She claims an EU study occasioned her piece, but had she even read it?
Phoenix Sun: Did Germany’s shift from nuclear power cause a rise in coal-fired electricity?
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Http://thephoenixsun.com/archives/14884
I’ll focus on what seems to me to be the error with the most important implications: that the anti-nuclear component of Germany’s energy transition has caused a rise in CO2 emissions.
Toke Calls for 150% Renewable Electricity in Scotland
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Dave Toke
So don’t we need some new, more radical targets for Scotland? 150 per cent by 2025 would seem moderate (perhaps even puny) in this scenario. Actually Scotland is making rapid progress towards its current 2020 target of 100 per cent of electricity demand from renewables by 2020. 150 per cent by 2025 is certainly plausible, and with onshore and offshore renewable energy prices falling, quite cheap.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY POLICY: HOW RAPID CHANGE IS BREAKING DOWN CONVENTIONAL POLICY CATEGORIES
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A number of policies have been used historically in order to stimulate the growth of the renewable electricity sector. This paper examines four of these policy instruments: renewable electricity auctions, feed-in tariffs, net metering and net billing, and tradable renewable energy certificates.
