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.
OSEA: My journey to the end of the world to see the impossible: 100% self-sufficient and renewable
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Kris Stevens
The people of El Hierro envisioned a new possibility for their island community and have achieved self-reliance supplying their electricity demand with a combination of wind and hydro-power.
ReNewEconomy: Wind energy to rescue as EDF takes part of UK’s nuclear fleet offline
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Giles Parkinson
According to the FT, National Grid said the closures should not affect the UK’s energy supply. “Demand is low at this time of year, and a lot of wind power is being generated right now,” it said.
Conservative Forces at Work: The Opposition to Wind power in Australia
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Neil Barrett
In the short to medium term the fossil fuel interests and their supporters – both witting and unwitting — are fighting the battle of their corporate lives to preserve the privileged position they’ve held for so long. Largely because of economic and environmental considerations which strongly favour renewables and possibly because of the reactions of local people such as those at Waubra, the anti-wind forces will almost certainly lose in the end, but not before they’ve done a lot of damage to Australia’s attempts to cut emissions and to the wind industry in particular.
Guardian: The strange relationship between global warming denial and… speaking English
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Nonetheless, some pretty significant patterns are apparent. Perhaps most notably: Not only is the United States clearly the worst in its climate denial, but Great Britain and Australia are second and third worst, respectively. Canada, meanwhile, is the seventh worst. What do these four nations have in common? They all speak the language of Shakespeare.
Asahi Shimbun: 80% of Japanese municipalities eager to promote renewable energy
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“The popularization of renewable energy has increasingly allowed local municipalities to produce electricity on their own,” said Tetsunari Iida, director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies. . . Iida said the development of renewable energies is a move away from the “colony model” of energy consumption, in which local communities depend on outside energy producers. . . “It is important for local communities to develop energy sources by their own initiatives and circulate the benefits within their communities,” he said.
Mother Jones: The Strange Relationship Between Global Warming Denial and…Speaking English
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Chris Mooney
Nonetheless, some pretty significant patterns are apparent. Perhaps most notably: Not only is the United States clearly the worst in its climate denial, but Great Britain and Australia are second and third worst, respectively. Canada, meanwhile, is the seventh worst. . . What do these four nations have in common? They all speak the language of Shakespeare.
