India Throws $10 Billion at Smart Grid
India has a power grid that is ripe for renovation and transformation. More than a third of the nation’s grid electricity is lost to power theft and inefficiencies, and that doesn’t include the half...
View ArticleCheap Natural Gas: Nuclear Plants Can’t Compete
Due to abundant shale gas reserves, natural gas prices in the U.S. continue to remain low. Because of this, natural gas is positioned to rival coal consumption as well as take share from oil on the...
View Article60 Minutes: Solar Reporting Fail
Last month, 60 Minutes aired a segment where one of the program’s anchors, Lesley Stahl, tried to make the case that clean technology and renewable energy were “dead.” In her report, Stahl makes a...
View ArticleIn Focus: Energiewende
I spent this week at the penultimate meeting of the Transatlantic Urban Climate Dialogue (TUCD) in Germany, over and over hearing the term energiewende. Some of our hosts translated this as “energy...
View ArticleMoney: The Reason We Aren’t 100% Solar YET
Solar energy from our Sun is constantly bombarding us, even at night – we just can’t see it because of our planet’s orbit and rotation. So how come we don’t have solar panels on every rooftop...
View ArticleU.S. Energy Use Increased in 2013
Americans used more renewable, fossil and even nuclear energy in 2013, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Each year, the Laboratory...
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