Politics in the Zeros

Installed fossil fuel plants that have been paid product power cheaper than new renewable energy in Australia. However the huge news is that building renewable energy plants is now cheaper than building new fossil fuel plants in Australia. This is huge. This is a game-changer. Unsubsidised renewable energy is now cheaper than electricity from new-build [...]

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This wind power storage was done with help from government grants and I say Yes to that use of taxpayer money. Storage is crucial if we are to transition to renewable energy on a massive scale. This wind power with battery storage installation is showing us how it can be done. North Carolina-based Duke Energy [...]

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This sounds promising, plans to construct new transmission lines to handle power generated by wind turbines off the New Jersey coast. But construction won’t start until 2016, with the offshore wind turbines presumably constructed after the grid can handle it. So it’ll be a while until the electricity starts flowing. This assumes the usual motley [...]

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Pumped hydro is one of the oldest and most reliable ways of storing energy. Belgium plans to take excess wind power and use it to pump water out of the lagoon back into the ocean. When power is needed, the water is let back into the lagoon, powering the turbines.

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Watch Germany’s green revolution on PBS. See more from Need To Know. Germany is united on their goal of eliminating fossil fuel and moving towards renewable energy. By contrst, here in the States, we continue to argue endlessly about everything including renewable energy and still have no offshore wind. Further, no major politician in Germany [...]

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A Pew Research report, Innovate, Manufacture, and Compete, says the US is starting to lose it when it comes to energy, cleantech, and renewable energy. Ever-changing government policies make it difficult if not impossible to make plans more than a year into the future for those wanting to build renewable energy sites or improve the [...]

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Holographic radar means that wind turbines can now be identified within 20 miles of an airport, allowing much more land to potentially be used for wind farms. This new holographic radar is being developed by Aveillant, who is testing it now, with installations starting at airports. A plane or any aircraft can be indistinguishable within [...]

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Our ponderously slow process of getting offshore wind makes us look ridiculous compared to, say, Germany and Scotland, who already have plentiful offshore wind and are building more.

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BusinessInsider has detailed charts showing how renewable energy is generally expensive while the cost of natural gas and coal is low. Even worse, government subsidies for renewable energy are much less effective than subsidies for nuclear, oil, and gas in terms of electricity produced. Investors looking for a big return swarmed into renewable energy a [...]

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Earlier this month, Texas set a new record for the percentage of electricity generated by wind power, a staggering 26 percent of total supply across the state’s main grid system. Even better, 21 GW of wind turbines are under review by the state. Texas shows that left vs. right politics have little to do with [...]

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