Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000
Two new power plants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) came online earlier this year, supplying power for customers of Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. (UMERC), a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group. WEC
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Read moreCredit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 03:07:47 +0000
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Nathaniel Rich, novelist, essayist, and writer at large for the New York Times Magazine. Together, they discuss Nathaniel’s new book, Losing Earth: A Recent History, detailing the history of public climate change understanding and the larger, unaddressed issues and moral questions arising from the climate crisis
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:07:03 +0000
Mexico is preparing to import more U.S. natural gas to supply the country’s gas-fired power plants and industrial facilities after the Mexican government reached a deal that will allow several stalled pipeline projects to be completed. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador on Aug. 27 said his administration’s deal with Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy; IEnova, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:00:51 +0000
I suspect, being a progressive bunch, at least a few of us are Star Trek fans. Climate denial is mostly funded by oil company greed, and oil company actions are meant to maximize their profits. So, the idea of this series of short (somewhat satirical) articles is that climate change denial will be analyzed under the lens of each stated rule, how it applies, and what we should consider for our strategies to achieve climate victory over oil company greed
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:34:02 +0000
The State of North Carolina is working on a plan to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025, but Duke Energy, the largest electricity provider in the state, is busy claiming solar power means more emissions, not less.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:00:55 +0000
Canada subsidizes fossil fuels to the amount of $2.5, $4.7 or $34 billion every year, depending on what is included in the accounting
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:45:05 +0000
In 2022, new wind energy will get zero financial assistance of any kind and new solar will get very little, while fossil fuels will continue to get $4.6 billion annually in the best possible accounting, $27.4 billion in a reasonable accounting and $649 billion in a full accounting including negative externalities
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:59:37 +0000
The president of a company developing two new natural gas-fired power plants in Ohio said he is ending a project for a third plant there after lawmakers passed legislation to help two struggling nuclear generation facilities in the state. Bill Siderewicz, who leads Massachusetts-based Clean Energy Future LLC, on August 20 in a statement said […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:51:35 +0000
Venture capital investments in battery storage companies and projects rose significantly year-over-year through the first six months of 2019, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group. That level of activity is consistent with the growth in energy storage noted by speakers on July 24 at the Storage Week Plus conference in San Francisco, California. […]
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Credit to Author: Madeleine Gregory| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:05:15 +0000
Leaky pipes are likely sending methane-rich natural gas into the atmosphere where it contributes to climate change, a new study has found.
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