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May 27 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
27 May 2018 at 4:15am
Headline News: “The Silence of the Bugs” ? Fifty-six years after Rachel Carson?s ?Silent Spring? warned of bird die-offs from pesticides, a new biocrisis may be emerging. A study published last fall, showing a 76% decline in the total seasonal biomass of flying insects netted at 63 locations in Germany over the last three decades, [...]
May 26 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
26 May 2018 at 5:23am
Headline News: GTM Research projects 24¢/W solar panels and utility scale fixed-tilt systems costing 70¢/W by 2022. This would open up new possibilities for ultra-cheap power. The cost of electricity from such systems could fall to 1.5¢/kWh or lower. Trump’s solar panel tariffs may delay that goal, but they are set to phase out by [...]
May 25 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
25 May 2018 at 5:58am
Headline News: The future of Exelon?s unprofitable Three Mile Island nuclear power plant looks even bleaker. The company said it failed at an annual auction for the future electricity sales. Exelon?s Dresden and Byron plants, both in Illinois, also failed in the 2021-2022 auction to supply the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regional power grid. [StateImpact Pennsylvania] [...]
May 24 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
24 May 2018 at 4:00am
Headline News: The state of Rhode Island has selected Deepwater Wind, the Providence company that built the nation?s first offshore wind farm, to develop a 400-MW proposal in federal waters far off the coast that would be more than 10 times the size of the Block Island demonstration project. Gov Gina Raimondo announced the surprise [...]
May 23 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
23 May 2018 at 5:01am
Headline News: The American Wind Energy Association says that the number of contracts signed for wind power projects hit a record of 3,500 MW in the first quarter of 2018, a possible predictor of a strong year for wind power. Among the news items it cited was an announcement by PacifiCorp of a plan for [...]
New Funding Opportunity Includes Emphasis on Building Energy Codes
by Michelle Harrison
22 May 2018 at 10:43am
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) has announced the availability of up to $11.5 million for a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled, “Building America Industry Partnerships and Research Priorities for High-Performance Housing Innovation – 2018.” As part of this announcement, BTO supports research priorities in the residential [...]
May 22 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
22 May 2018 at 5:06am
Headline News: “Officials tried to censor a report on national parks. Here?s what was in it.” ? The Trump administration attempted to release a report from the National Park service about dangers to National Parks from rising sea levels with all references to climate change removed. It identified human-caused climate change as the main culprit [...]
Energy Has a Diversity Problem. We?re Calling on the Solar Industry to Fix It
by Michelle Harrison
21 May 2018 at 9:08pm
Solar is no longer a fledgling industry. It?s more important than ever to improve diversity in hiring, say NAACP?s Rosemary Lytle and Vote Solar?s Melanie Santiago-Mosier. from greentechmedia.com According to a February report from The Solar Foundation, despite recent federal headwinds, overall solar employment is more than double what [...]
Charlie Baker?s Record on Climate Action and Consumer Protection
by Michelle Harrison
21 May 2018 at 9:01pm
from Blue Mass Group Charlie Baker didn?t run for governor on a platform of consumer protection or climate action. But now that he thinks climate change is real and man-made, he talks a lot about his administration?s work on clean energy and climate change, even as his messaging to his base, and his reelection campaign, [...]
May 21 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
21 May 2018 at 5:30am
Headline News: Qualcomm Inc has been developing motor vehicle static charging technology with major carmakers for the past seven years. The company announced that its system is expected to be commercially available on EVs within two years, based on the fact that the cost of static wireless charging is now comparable with conductive charging. [Solar [...]
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