Climate Change

Andy Tang, Wärtsilä’s VP of energy storage and optimization, sat down with me for a CleanTech Talks episode a few weeks ago. This second half of our wide-ranging conversation includes conversations about major island microgrids in the…

Egypt’s Aswan Dam, as large as it is, has been providing a declining percentage of the country’s electricity with each passing decade, while natural gas has been providing more and more. While its oil rent is less than that of nearby…

A parliamentary committee has recommended the Victorian government explore options to allow greater integration of distributed energy resources, including rooftop solar PV into the grid as climate activists urge the state to ramp up its…

In the second half of this episode of CleanTech Talk, I speak with serial successful entrepreneur Bill Nussey. He recently published a book, Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global…

Originally posted on EVANNEX.By Charles Morris Of the plethora of pundits who publish predictions, prognostications and polemics about Tesla every day, some “get it” and some don’t. Many will simply never be able to understand how…

The technology group Wärtsilä presents its "Front-Loading Net Zero" report at the Economist Sustainability Week event today, 6 October. This 52-page report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050…

Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House & Senate and two Democratic Senators — Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. Republican Party politicians are…

Source: Map by U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 2021 Summer Reliability Assessment. Note: ERCOT is the Electric Reliability Council of Texas; MISO is the…

Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By Joseph Daniel, Senior energy analyst When I came to UCS three years ago, coal self-commitment—the practice of coal plants running when cheaper (and cleaner) resources are available on…

Originally published on the World Resources Institute.By John Feldmann, Devashree Saha, and Rajat Shrestha Under the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, tax credits for clean energy and technologies are expected…