Green Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Arizona, despite being GOP-dominated, is number 3 in the US for residential solar power production. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, Arizona homeowners put in 52.83 megawatts of new solar installations. As for industrial-scale solar, Arizona utility APS generates 1.4 gigawatts worth of solar power, equivalent to a small […]

Green Energy

Denialists Keep Saying Wind and Solar make Electricity Expensive: Proof they’re Wrong from Australia

The Conversation

By Zsuzsanna Csereklyei | – Wholesale prices in the National Electricity Market have climbed significantly in recent years. The increase has coincided with a rapid increase in the proportion of electricity supplied by wind and solar generators. But that needn’t mean the increase in wind and solar generation caused the increase in prices. It might […]

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Scotland’s Green Energy makes Enough Electricity 1st Quarter to power 88% of Households

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first three months of 2019, Scotland produced 17 percent more electricity from renewables than in the same quarter a year earlier. Driven mainly by onshore wind, Scotland’s burgeoning green energy sector keeps breaking records, making enough electricity the first quarter of this year to provide 88% of the […]

Employment

Renewable Energy Employed 11 Million People last Year, 8% Growth Forecast

Clean Energy Wire

In the US, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that wind turbine technician jobs will be the second-fastest-growing occupation through 2026

Democratic Socialism

The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

George Lakey

All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good

Green Energy

Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris

Global Voices

Dubai will build the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project on a single site in the world

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75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

Juan Cole

Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy

Climate Change

Why Critics of the Green New Deal are Just Plain Wrong

The Conversation

Carbon pricing isn’t the only game in town

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Spain’s Socialists aim for 75% Renewables in Ten Years (at 40% Today)

Juan Cole

Spain is already getting 40% of its electricity from renewables, but its Socialist government hopes to nearly double that proportion in a little over a decade. Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez and his cabinet have approved a draft proposal to get t 74% of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2030, a little over […]