Tag: Renewables
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It’s Official: U.S. Solar Industry Had Record-Shattering Year in 2013
What would Alexandre Edmond Becquerel be thinking now? In 1839, at the age of just 19, Becquerel built the world’s first photovoltaic panel, later inspiring the imaginations of millions of people worldwide, including legendary scientist Albert Einstein. Still, it took another 115 years before Bell Labs invented the first modern silicon solar cell. By comparison,…
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China’s Wind Output Exceeds Nuclear by 22 Percent
By J. Matthew Roney In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent. The 135 terawatt-hours of Chinese wind-generated electricity in 2013 would be nearly enough to…
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World’s Largest Grid Operator Reveals Why Increased Wind Energy Means Increased Savings
By Michael Goggin [caption id="attachment_324255" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] In the fall, PJM, the largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers across 13 Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, issued the preliminary results of a major wind integration study. The final results of the study were released Monday and they are even better than the preliminary results. Among the highlights:…
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Documentary Spotlight: Yemeniettes
One of my favorite events of the year is almost here—the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) from March 19 to March 30 at Tower City Cinemas. There are eight eco-films this year, in CIFF’s It’s Easy Being Green sidebar sponsored by Great Lakes Brewing Company, bringing awareness and support to the environmental movement working to save our planet. I’ll feature one…
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Massachusetts Approves New England’s Largest-Ever Renewable Energy Procurement
[caption id="attachment_324213" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] While projects in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine are all vying to make the New England the home of the nation’s first offshore wind farm, one of those states recently amped up its on-land renewable energy in a major way. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the state’s Department of…