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.
Asahi Shimbun: City in Okayama on track to become self-sufficient with biomass energy
By
Toru Ishii
This mountainous city has moved another step toward its goal of supplying all of its energy needs with the area’s most visibly abundant resource.
Renewables International: Plummeting demand, renewables slightly up and fossil power generation at a 35 year low
By
Thomas Gerke
All these developments have resulted in Germany generating less electricity from fossil fuels in 2014 than in the last 35 years.
Capacity Markets: Sugar Plum Fairies
By
Catherine Mitchell
DECC’s auction reflects GB’s current energy policy: wasteful, thoughtless, parochial and supporting the status quo. This was a real opportunity to implement a radically different, demand focused mechanism and we blew it. Happy Christmas electricity generators.
Britain’s dinosaur capacity market will worsen energy ‘trilemma’
By
Catherine Mitchell
The government could have chosen a better way, by prioritising measures that really do solve the energy trilemma – incentivising interconnection, treating demand-side management as a priority, encouraging storage through building the electric car fleet, and supplementing all of that with a strategic reserve scheme to provide a small amount of guaranteed gas generation. This would keep bills down, improve security of supply, and be the first step to building the flexible low-carbon grid that we will need by 2030.
Vancouver Sun: Positive news overlooked: 2014 has seen significant movement toward renewable energy
By
Merran Smith
Climate disruption jumped to the fore of the global political agenda in 2014 and a series of developments cemented both renewable energy and carbon pricing as lead solutions to the crisis.
More on Japan’s Energy Technocrats and their Smart Communities
By
Andrew Dewit
The institutions through which Japan’s energy technocrats are adapting Germany’s lessons to Japanese circumstances are potentially very powerful. They may be rebooting some of the mechanisms that were key to Japan’s startling postwar recovery.
