Tag: Renewables
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6 Reasons Why Nuke Fan Is Dead Wrong About Wind Energy
By Michael Goggin The Energy Collective blog recently carried a column, Limitations of Unreliable Energy Sources, aka ‘Renewables,’ by Rod Adams, a longtime nuclear power advocate and critic of competing energy sources. In his column, Adams repeats a number of false statements about wind power. When corrected, his claims actually highlight a number of ways…
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230,000+ Americans Tell Google to Quit Funding ALEC
Today, 230,000 members and supporters of the Sierra Club, Forecast the Facts, SumOfUs, RootsAction and the Center for Media and Democracy urged Google to end its alliance with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This week represents the first time ALEC’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. has Google as a corporate…
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How U.S. Solar Market Can Surpass Germany
By Koben Calhoun and Jesse Morris A recent Deutsche Bank report projects global newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity will reach 50 gigawatts (GW) annually in 2014, a roughly 50-percent increase over anticipated new installed capacity during 2013. Germany’s been the longtime undisputed champion of solar deployment, with 35.2 GW of installed capacity as of Nov. 1, though the installation…
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Obama Executive Order Calls For Federal Government to Triple Use of Renewable Energy in 7 Years
President Barack Obama believes it’s time for federal agencies to use more renewable energy—nearly three times the amount they’re already deploying. The president issued a memorandum today ordering a boost in solar, wind and other technologies to 20 percent by 2020. “In order to create a clean energy economy that will increase our nation’s prosperity,…
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Vote on Ohio’s Renewable Energy Policy Placed on Hold
[caption id="attachment_314347" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: Climate Action BC[/caption] The fight over Ohio’s renewable energy policy is on hold, and there’s no telling when it will resume. Sen. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) cancelled a Senate Public Utilities Committee meeting this week in which members were expected to vote on a revised version of Senate Bill (SB) 58, which…