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.
Netherlands Council for Environment and Infrastructure: Clogs in the works
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Jan Paul Van Soest
The transition to a sustainable energy economy and its deliberate and unconscious sabotage . . .
100% renewable energy is only a matter of political will
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Three years after the Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Global100RE Ambassadors are highlighting the need to refrain from using hazardous nuclear and fossil energy sources and instead shift towards 100% renewable energy. Ambassadors of the Global 100% Renewable Energy Campaign Bill McKibben, David Suzuki, Hans-Josef Fell, Jeremy Leggett, and Ulrich Kelber call on policy makers around the world to take action as transitioning towards fossil-free societies is a matter of political will.
Renewables International: The right to make your own energy–Liebreich’s Law, meet Craig’s Lists
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Craig Morris
Over at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), Michael Liebreich now claims responsibility for the cost breakthroughs of renewables. Adding insult to injury, he then argues that the policy that actually produced these breakthroughs is an obstacle and must go.
IGov: Learning from Merkel’s approach to energy politics
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Matthew Lockwood
Angela Merkel’s visit to London yesterday is being widely reported in the context of David Cameron’s efforts to secure EU reform.However, the presence of Europe’s electorally most successful leader is also a reminder of some contrasts between Germany and the UK in the area of energy policy.
Foreign Policy: Did America teach the world to ignore climate change?
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Kate Galbraith
The United States, where powerful industries are skilled at downplaying environmental risks, appears to have embraced the skeptic movement first, in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Back then, as now, a network of conservative think-tanks churned out skeptics to question global warming science in congressional testimony and in news articles, as recounted in this 2003 academic paper, “Defeating Kyoto.”
RenewEconomy: The cost of coal puts renewable myths in perspective
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Ketan Joshi
At the same time, the open cut coal mine that provides fuel to the power station is burning; a slow, intense fire that sits at the coal seam face. The fires, suspected to have been deliberately lit, eject plumes of smoke into Morwell, a town of 14,005 residents, a stone’s throw away from the smouldering seam.
