Friday, May 24, 2013
Al Gore has outdone himself. Think what you will of him, you can't say he doesn't have a vision. On July 17th, he called for the nation to embark on a man-on-the-moon effort to achieve 100% "renewable and other truly clean carbon-free" electricity in...
Communities and local governments are increasingly looking for ways they can influence high utility prices, obtain more renewable energy and become more self-sufficient. Community Choice Aggregation is perhaps the most promising option for achieving these...
With oil prices topping new records every week, the chorus for increasing offshore drilling is growing. Will it help?
Congress got hot under the collar in early June as it debated national climate change legislation. The Warner-Lieberman bill went down in flames, however, because Democrats couldn't muster the 60 votes needed to break a Senate filibuster. But this isn't...
I've made my punch line the title of this piece. I was never good at telling jokes. This joke, however, isn't really funny anyway because it is a boondoggle being played on the American people.
After New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace in a drama worthy of Euripides, the highly popular Oil Drum website ran an article about his successor entitled: "David Paterson: First Openly Peak Oil Aware Governor." The article highlighted the...
Energy policy in California is, for us policy wonks, always exciting. California has historically led the way for the U.S., so what happens in California affects not only the 37 million who live in California but also soon impacts many of the other 270...
"Community energy" projects are generally defined as those between one and 20 megawatts (MW). This is a sector that is often overlooked -- small-scale renewables like solar photovoltaics, and large-scale renewables like wind, geothermal, and concentrating...
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