2014 biggest year ever for solar, but oil price threat looms
Will only time tell whether it will be enough to keep solar panels cheap when crude oil no longer is?
Renewable Energy
Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations
Rethinking the grid is quickly emerging as one of the hottest topics.
With Corporate Energy, We’re Stuck in the Dark Ages – Let’s Switch to Public Ownership
It is clear that Britain has an energy problem.
Stranded Assets in Oil and Gas a Reality
Though climate change will no doubt prove to be one aspect of stranded assets, others will include a simple but powerful realization that there are simply better places to put your investment dollars…or euros…or yuan.
If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?
If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?
Burlington, Vermont Becomes First U.S. City to Run On 100% Renewable Electricity
The cheapest long term financial investment for us with the least amount of risk was to move in this direction.
Review: The World After Cheap Oil
Written by Finnish energy analysts Rauli Partanen, Harri Paloheimo and Heikki Waris, The World After Cheap Oil offers an exhaustive, up-to-date dissection of the world oil situation.
Solar Jobs Benefit Economy, Maybe More than Oil and Gas Jobs
A new report from the Solar Foundation and George Washington University shows the U.S. solar industry gained about 31,000 new jobs in 2014, a 21.8 percent growth rate or nearly twenty times more than the economy as a whole.
Green Dreams – Future or Fantasy?
David Fridley on alternative energy, what it can do, and what it can’t.
Energy Crunch: Clean energy gains ground
Ever since oil and gas prices started to plunge, speculation that cheaper fossil fuels would mean a serious setback for renewables has been rife.
Our Renewable Future
Or, What I’ve Learned in 12 Years Writing about Energy
Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.
In a December 2014 report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, John Farrell makes the case for a more radical shift, which he calls "Utility 3.0" or "energy democracy."
