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.
Penetration of Renewable Energy in Selected Markets
By
Paul Gipe
Inter-annual Wind Variability Less than that of Hydro–Steady Growth of Non-Hydro Renewable Penetration in European Markets–US Renewable Energy Penetration: Little Progress Since 1983 . . .
Renewables International: “No additional coal plants in Germany”
By
Craig Morris
Over the past two years, Renewables International has repeatedly argued that there will be no shift to coal power as a result of the nuclear phaseout. So it’s nice to see that other independent analysts see things the same way.
Boell: The Energiewende – the Result of a Powerful Mass Movement from Below
By
Paul Hockenhos
Fifteen years ago, processes were set in motion that would turn Germany’s energy market on its head. The main catalysts: liberalization of the energy market and passage of the Renewable Energy Resources Act. Since then, Germany’s energy market has been transformed from one in which four giant utilities companies and several dozen small municipal power companies ruled the roost, to today when Germany’s decentralized energy production includes around 1.5 million mostly small and medium-sized energy producers.
The implication for climate change and peak fossil fuel of the continuation of the current trend in wind and solar energy production
By
Mark Leggett and David Ball
The study finds that the peak fossil fuel risk will start to be critical by 2020. If however the future growth rate of wind and solar energy production follows that already achieved for the world mobile phone system or the Chinese National expressway network the peak fossil fuel risk can be prevented completely. For global warming, the same growth rate provides significant mitigation by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels to zero by the early 2030s.
Energy from the Heavens: Franz Alt on Wind Energy
By
Paul Gipe
Theologian, popular author, renewables activist, TV personality, Franz Alt is something of a phenomenon in Germany. Unfortunately for us Anglophones, …
Renewables International: The “technical maximum” of wind power – in 1995
By
Craig Morris
18 years ago, a skeptic of wind power reviewed a German book on the history of wind power in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ). The journalist still publishes for the paper. His comments from way back have not aged well, but they do sound like a lot of the criticism we now hear outside of Germany today.
