Solar Energy

Read it and Weep, Moscow Mitch: 100 MW of Solar to be bought by Kentucky Coal-Country Utilities for Toyota

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The East Kentucky utilities Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas & Electric have applied for permission from state regulators to buy electricity from a 100-megawatt solar facility. The utilities, which ordinarily purvey power from dirty coal (80% of their generation), were pressured by Toyota and Dow, who in turn are trying […]

Featured

Massive new 1.5 Gigawatt Solar Farm in Upper Egypt is Visible from Space

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Aidan Lewis at Reuters reports that Egypt has just opened the 1.5 gigawatt Benban solar plant near the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan (pop. 339,000). It is part of a $2.1 billion development project. The plant, one of the largest in the world, was inauguarated on December 12. It may […]

Solar Energy

Germany’s Solar Power Revived by Home Batteries, Hopes for Skyscraper Rooftop PV

Clean Energy Wire

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the buildings sector and […]

China

Solar Power: How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions

The Conversation

By Kathryn G Logan, Shi Chen and Xi Lu | – China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2013. The BRI involves developing infrastructure in 126 partner countries to boost trade within a region stretching from Indonesia to Western Europe via the Middle East and […]

China

China is positioned to lead on climate change as the US rolls back its policies

The Conversation

By Kelly Sims Gallagher and Fang Zhang | – As the effects of climate change become more widespread and alarming, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has called on nations to step up their plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Every country has a part to play, but if the world’s largest emitters fail to meet their […]

China

China’s Struggle for Green Electricity

China Dialogue

By Feng Hao | – ( ChinaDialogue ) – Using electricity for everything will help lay the groundwork for lowering carbon emissions, but it won’t be easy As the world belatedly sets about reducing carbon emissions, the struggle between coal power and renewables for the future of China’s electricity system has garnered a lot of […]

Coal

Sun and wind displace Germany’s coal during summer months

Clean Energy Wire

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year, news agency dpa writes in an article carried by Focus Online, […]

Green Energy

A Politics of Hope: How we Can go completely to Green Energy

The Conversation

By David Timmons | – The main solution to climate change is well known – stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-fossil-fuel future: We make electricity with renewable sources and electrify almost everything. That […]

Climate Change

Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan Project: The Game-Changing Green New Deal

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Bernie Sanders’ breathtaking Green New Deal, with an advertised price tag of $16.3 trillion, is aimed at nothing less than saving the planet from the worst consequences of global heating. The plan aims to create 20 million new, well-paying jobs. It should be noted that one possible outcome of […]