Puerto Rico, now’s your chance!
Puerto Rico can become the first significant size polity to rebuild itself from the ground up to be totally Carbon free. Or at least, that seems like a good idea. If only the US Government wasn’t so...
View ArticleClimate and energy are becoming focal points in state political races
Just a pointer to my colleague John Abraham’s current post in The Guardian: The latest example, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Otto has a strong clean energy proposal As soon as Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe Best US Electricity Generation Graphic Ever, No Kidding
Carbon Brief has produced a US based (sorry, rest of the world) interactive graphic that accesses an extensive underlying database that shows everything about the electricity generation that there is...
View ArticleImportant lessons in handicapping clean energy
This is an interesting development and provides some interesting lessons: Facebook will buy renewable energy from northeast Nebraska wind development, breathing new life into dormant project Facebook’s...
View ArticleNuclear Plant Bill Riles, Confuses, Perhaps Conspires
There is a pair of bills working their way through the Minnesota state legislature that would change the way Xcel Energy can pay for certain costs of maintaining and upgrading its nuclear power plants...
View ArticleDecarbonizing the not so low hanging fruit
We, we humans, need to stop releasing fossil carbon into the atmosphere well before 2100 or we are doomed. The main reason we are not heading headlong into that project, getting it done right away, is...
View ArticleClean Energy By State Interactive Map
This is a tool produces by Environment America. Have fun with it! The post Clean Energy By State Interactive Map appeared first on Greg Laden's Blog.
View ArticleMinnesota Energy: Decarbonize, locally produce
The McKnight Foundation and GridLab contracted Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC, to prepare a report called Minnesota’s Smarter Grid: Pathways Towards a Clean, Reliable and Affordable Transportation and...
View ArticleAs Rome Burns, Thus Increasing GHG Emissions, We Fiddle
Like this, sometimes: Governor Murphy has remained steadfastly poker-faced when it comes to a proposal to build a controversial power plant in the Meadowlands that would be one of the biggest...
View ArticleClean Energy: Good News Bad News
First some good news: Corporate clean energy buying surged to new record in 2018 Corporations purchased 13.4 gigawatts of clean power through long-term contracts, more than doubling 2017’s total,...
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