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.
ILSR: An Enormous Question for ‘Solar Choice’
By
John Farrell
This week, a coalition of companies that provide leasing contracts for solar to home and business customers declared war on this “value of solar” policy, and pretty much every financial model for compensating solar energy producers that isn’t net metering. . . including feed-in tariffs.
DECC survey reveals massive support for onshore wind compared to nuclear and fracking
By
Dave Toke
As detailed below, the Government’s survey shows that the public is much more supportive of onshore wind – the technology they are determined to curb – compared to the technologies to which they want to give incentives, namely nuclear power and shale gas.
Renewables International: The energy transition: a German religious consensus
By
Craig Morris
Some thoughts about the role of the church in Germany’s switch to renewables and lower consumption driven by citizens, energy cooperatives, and communities. While energy policy is a divisive issue in other countries across political lines, the Germans have been largely pulling in one direction for nearly two and a half decades.
Is The New York Times Missing The Decade’s Most Affirmative Climate-and-Energy Story?
By
Chales Komanoff
Alone among the major economies, Germany is moving purposefully to phase out fossil fuels while also shuttering nuclear power. Germany’s energy makeover, or “energiewende,” appears to be thriving, as evidenced by the country’s humming economy, low unemployment, robust exports, stable or declining CO2 emissions, and rapid uptake of renewables. Yet the world’s most influential newspaper casts this ambitious program as an incipient failure, even as elsewhere it decries the climate stalemate in Washington.
Renewables International: New EU rules on renewables
By
Craig Morris
Last week, the EU adopted new rules on “public support for environmental protection and energy.” The outcome is a clear compromise; though still containing misleading labels such as “market-based,” the new policy leaves the door open for feed-in tariffs, especially for “small installations.” The proposed switch from fully fledged feed-in tariffs to feed-in premiums may not even be a bad idea.
Stiftung Umweltenergierecht On EU Commission Guidelines on RE
By
Karl-friedrich Lenz
The Stiftung Umweltenergierecht has published an 89 page analysis (in German language) explaining how the recent move by the European Commission to violate Germany’s legislation competences is illegal. Thanks to this Tweet by Heiko Stubner for the link.
