Solar Energy

By Michelle Griffith | – ( The Minnesota Reformer ) – The Minnesota House passed a bill late Thursday that would force Minnesota utilities to move to entirely carbon-free electricity by 2040, after hours of debate that sometimes strayed far off topic. House Republicans sought to derail the bill and score points with over 30 […]

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Can Puerto Rico solve its perennial Energy Problems with Distributed and Community Solar?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have put out a one-year progress report on Puerto Rico’s green energy transition and grid resilience. As a Caribbean island, Puerto Rico has suffered massive damage in this century from hurricanes, which are becoming more intense and […]

Solar Energy

Solar Plant northwest of Flagstaff expected to Avoid 1 billion pounds of CO2 Emissions each Year

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Sydnee Wilson ( Cronkite News ) – FLAGSTAFF – Salt River Project has partnered with Clenera, a private renewable energy company, to bring Arizona its largest solar plant in 2024. Construction of the CO Bar Solar plant will begin in 2023 on 2,400 acres of private land northwest of Flagstaff in Coconino County. Upon […]

Climate Crisis

Nearly 20% of New Vehicles in California Last Year were Zero-Emission, as Peak Oil nears

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that nearly 1 in 5 of new vehicles purchased in that state in 2022 were zero emission (ZEVs). Nationwide, nearly 6 percent of new vehicle registrations were electric. This statistic of 18.8% ZEVs did not represent business as usual for California. The […]

Climate Crisis

EU, IEA: Next 10 Years will See Greatest Industrial Transformation of our Times

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Six million workers are employed globally in the $217 billion green energy industry today. But in only 8 years, they will more than double to 14 million. Half of those jobs would be connected to “electric vehicles, solar PV, wind and heat pumps.” And the size of the industry will […]

Climate Crisis

3/4s of German Homeowners are Ready to Put Solar Panels on their Roofs: Survey

Benjamin Wehrmann

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Three in four houseowners in Germany wish to put a solar PV array on their roofs, according to a survey commissioned by the country’s solar industry lobby group BSW Solar. One in five houseowners aims to install solar PV arrays within the next twelve months, the survey by pollster […]

Climate Crisis

Is the New Energy Crisis a Boon for the Green Energy Transition?

Middle East Monitor

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The year 2022 saw the energy topic return intensely to the attention of media, political leaders and public opinion after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Russia’s war has had huge impacts on the global energy system, disrupting supply and demand patterns and […]

Climate Crisis

New Solar installations Rocket up by 50% in Europe in 2022, amid Ukraine War Energy Crisis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The industry think tank SolarPower Europe has concluded that new solar power installations rocketed up in Europe by nearly 50% in 2022, driven in part by the spike in fossil gas prices caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Europe installed 28.1 gigawatts of solar power in 2021. In 2022, Europe […]

Batteries

Rapid Move to Wind and Solar Power would Save the world $12 Trillion: Oxford Study

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of power by 2050 will save the world $12 trillion, according to a new study published in Joule by Oxford researchers Rupert Way, Matthew C. Ives, Penny Mealy, and J. Doyne Farmer. Oxford’s press release points out that the paper foresees […]