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Archives: Green Energy

Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment

The World Bank | (Video News Report) | - - "Concentrating Solar Power, CSP, is huge in Morocco. Literally, it’s huge. Panels almost the size of tennis courts stretch across acres of…

Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its future. !. Renewables comprised 66% of all…

Disrupting Climate Change

By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | - - Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time to stem global warming and save the…

How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid

By Joshua M. Pearce | The Conversation | - - As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at…

Tesla 3 Arrives: Beginning of End of Climate Change? (Video)

People w/ Electric Cars aren’t trapped in Miami Beach with no Gasoline

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some people in South Florida are finding it difficult to flee Irma because they cannot fill their tanks up with gasoline. Many gas…

Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – up 25 percent from 2015. 2. That…

Take that, Trump! 5% of California New Car Sales now Electric

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite Trump having pulled the US out of the Paris Climate accord, there is reason to think that the US will nevertheless meet…

Green Norway: Will it be the World’s First post-Carbon Society?

By Sam Morgan | EurActiv.com | - - Norway has the renewable resources and political will to become the world’s first country to use entirely clean electricity for its power demands, according…

The Message on Climate must be ‘Yes We Can,’ not Apocalypse Now’

By Jon Christensen | (The Conversation) | - - There’s been no shortage of pessimistic news on climate change lately. A group of climate scientists and policy experts recently declared that we…

On one day in May, Italy got 87% of its Electricity from Renewables

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - * On one day in May, Italy met 87% of its electricity production needs from renewables. This statistic was a fluke, since ordinarily…

Shell, terrified of EVs, expects ‘low forever’ Gasoline Prices; it is too Optimistic

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Telegraph reports that Royal Dutch Shell, the massive oil company, has abruptly decided that petroleum prices are likely to remain low "forever,"…

Even Major Oil State UAE running for Exits toward Green Energy

By Rabiya Jaffery | (Inter Press Service) | - - ABU DHABI (IPS) - Much of the world is moving away from oil for its electricity generation, according to the International Energy…

For Clean, Cheap Energy, Cities & Counties should Take Over

By Sarah van Gelder | ( Yes! Magazine ) | - - A new report finds public ownership is the best way for cities and towns to meet renewable energy and efficiency…

25% of Australian Homes have gone Solar and other Green Triumphs this Week

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Renewables continue to take the world by storm, which is good news for the climate. Because of less expensive and more efficient technology,…

G-20: Germany aims to isolate Trump on Paris Climate Plan

By Dave Keating | Euractiv.com | - - Angela Merkel wants all countries in the group except the US to sign up to a strong statement supporting the Paris Agreement but Saudi…

Record: Germany at 35% Renewables in Electricity Production

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - So far this year, over a third of German electricity has come from wind, solar, biomass and hydro, at 35%. That is 2…

Trump has it Backwards: Green Energy will Make America Great

By Joseph E. Stiglitz | (Project Syndicate) | - - BRUSSELS – Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on…

100% Green Energy is Possible & a Chinese Province Just Proved It

TeleSur | - - New clean schemes push the nation further forward as a leader in search for alternative technologies. Demonstrating that renewables are a viable option for the future, China’s Qinghai…

Trump’s Folly: Oil is a Worthless Commodity and Saudi’s Crown Prince Knows It

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Crude oil prices are cratering, down 20% this year, in the biggest 6-month free fall in years. As Annie Pei of CNBC notes,…

Green France: Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The French government wants to steal increasingly unemployed US green energy scientists, who are being systematically defunded by the Trump administration. After Trump…