"Wind projects add 555 MW to RMT's renewable energy portfolio"
MADISON, WISCONSIN - 03.1.2013 - RMT, Inc. (RMT), a renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, completed the design and construction of 555 megawatts of renewable energy in 2012.
A subsidiary company of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, LLC (IEA), RMT specializes in wind and solar energy generating facility design and construction. Wind energy projects completed by the company last year were:
* 24 MW Auwahi Wind Farm for Sempra Generation in Maui, Hawaii
* 67 MW Colorado Highlands Wind Farm for Alliance Power and GE Financial Energy Financial Services in Logan County, Colorado
* 69 MW Kawailoa Wind Farm for First Wind in Oahu, Hawaii
* 21 MW KWP II Wind Farm for First Wind in Maui, Hawaii
* 69 MW Laurel Hill Wind Farm for Duke Energy in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
* 104 MW Palouse Wind Farm for First Wind in Whitman County, Washington
* 201 MW Post Rock Wind Farm for Wind Capital Group in Lincoln & Ellsworth counties, Kansas
RMT closed out the year with an industry-leading safety record once again. RMT and its subcontractors worked over 1.7 million hours in 2012 without a single lost-time incident. The company's Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) came in at 0.46 and its Experience Modification Rate (EMR) came in at 0.80, well below the industry averages of 3.5 and 1.0, respectively. RMT and its subcontractors have worked over 4.2 million consecutive man hours without a lost-time incident since September 29, 2010.
The companies of IEA have institutionalized a culture of safety, enabling them to operate in the most stringent and challenging work environments. "As projects become more complex, with tighter budgets and schedules, especially in 2012 with rushed deadlines of December 31st to meet the Production Tax Credit expiration, RMT remained focused on safely completing all of our projects," said RMT President John Kennedy. "Meeting our client's goals and bringing our people home safe is a consequence of the culture, commitment, and quality of our people."
RMT received numerous health and safety awards for its 2012 performance. This includes four awards from the National Safety Council: the Milestone Award, the Perfect Record Award, the Million Work Hours Award and the Occupational Excellence Achievement Award.
HEADLINE NEWS:
* The UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change awarded contracts worth more than lb315 million to 27 projects. ScottishPower got one to build a 714-MW offshore wind farm, RWE Innogy GmbH won for three onshore wind projects totaling 166 MW, and Lightsource will build a 14.67-MW solar facility. [Bloomberg]
* SunEdison, the world's largest renewable energy development company, is planning to supply electricity to 20 million unserved people around the world. The initiative will be led by a company group focused on developing sustainable business models and technologies for renewable energy in rural areas. [AltEnergyMag]
* Under a new plan by governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, electric distribution companies will collaborate with state agencies on a bidding process for proposals for clean energy resources including wind, solar, small hydro, biomass, fuel cells and other low-carbon sources. [Lexington Herald Leader]
* Iberdrola Renewables, the owner and operator of the Blue Creek Wind Farm, along with Ohio State Senator Cliff Hite presented checks to Van Wert County, Ohio for more than 2,070,000, and Paulding County for 666,000. Iberdrola pays the counties 18,000 per year for each Iberdrola turbine they have. [Delphos Herald]
* In Hawaii, the Big Island's electric utility has asked Ormat Technologies to supply it with more geothermal power. The additional 25 MW will come from a new power plant at a new location, Hawaii Electric Light Co said Tuesday. The precise location has not yet been announced, under a nondisclosure agreement. [Thegardenisland.com]
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"This is our moment in time. America's solar energy industry stands ready to do our part to help fight climate change and usher in a new era of clean energy in America and around the world." - "Rhone Resch", "Huffington Post, 2013"
We couldn't agree more - the time for solar power is now.
Thanks to SunPower's new X-Series solar panels, delivering efficient electric energy to your home has never been more cost-effective. Released in April of this year, the X-Series is the energy experts at Solaire's new preferred choice of residential solar panel. These new panels deliver more energy, are highly reliable and have superior aesthetics to previous models.
The X-Series' efficiency is a world record breaker and makes them the most efficient residential solar panels on the market. Efficiency in solar panels is measured by what percentage of the sun's energy they're able to convert into electricity. Standard solar panels have an efficiency of around 15%, while the X-Series work at an impressive 21.5%.
Their top-of-the-line features include:
* A high-energy output with no light-induced output degradation. Output degradation sometimes happens with older solar panel modules - the solar cells lose efficiency after being exposed to sunlight. Over time, this degradation by sunlight can substantially decrease solar cell efficiency. SunPower's X-Series solar cells have, by far, the lowest degradation rates of any solar panel in the industry.
* SunPower's X-Series are hardworking, too. With their better low-light and spectral response, they'll be at work before you get up in the morning and still be generating electricity long after you're home in the evening (especially with California's long summer daylight hours).
* Some rooftops have higher temperature than others. X-Series panels make the most of this. They are low temperature co-efficient, which means that even under the highest heat condition, SunPower's X-Series solar cells will produce more power than any other product on the market.
* The X-Series is available for the residential market with its standard (335 watt) and smaller (250 watt) formats. The cells' sleek black design makes them ideal for house rooftops, as they blend in smoothly with outdoor d'ecor and look much more attractive than traditional home solar systems.
Here at Solaire Energy Systems we are an Elite Sunpower Dealer, which means we are experts in supplying and installing SunPower's new X-Series Model, and we are national leaders in customer satisfaction and sales. If you're interested in getting this new solar panel model for your home, or you'd just like to know more, contact us online.
Origin: renewable-technologies.blogspot.com
"Let me pause from the Blue Revolution by suggesting that you go to The Huffington Post, a liberal news website. It is said to be the most linked-to blog site. I have published 19 articles, drawing from both SIMPLE SOLUTIONS books. Some of them were also included in this blog. The value of these internet news sites is that comments are nearly instantaneous. There is something about this medium that might well serve as the the simple solution for our global problems. Protest marches are so last generation."- Huffington Post Entries by Patrick Takahashi-
Global Warming and the Afterlife
Posted August 11, 2008 03:55 PM (EST)
The box on the right shows that I have published two books, both within the past year. Chapter 4 in Book 1 reports on global warming, and points out the greater peril of THE VENUS SYNDROME, with methane, not carbon dioxide, as the threat. Chapter 5 of Book 2 is...-
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Why Do We Spend So Much On National Security?
9 Comments Posted August 2, 2008 04:35 PM (EST)
"I've never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today."
General Richard Cody, Army Vice Chief of StaffTIME, April 14, 2008
Let me see now, there is no USSR cold war threat. China spends 45/citizen for defense, while we invest about 2700/person on national...-
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Billions and Trillions
24 Comments Posted July 29, 2008 06:30 PM (EST)
Carl Sagan wrote a book entitled Billions and Billions. While we tend to get wrapped up in our own infinitesimal problems, keep in mind that it takes light 100,000 years (travelling at 186,282 miles/second) just to get from one end of our Milky Way Galaxy to the other end. The...-
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The Free Green Energy Age (Part 5)
Posted July 17, 2008 05:10 PM (EST)
This is the fifth and final article of my HuffPo series on finding an optimal solution for Peak Oil and Global Warming. There is a clear transition of thought from Parts 1 to 5. These points are covered in SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth, shown in the box on the...-
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The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)
Posted July 8, 2008 03:36 PM (EST)
This discussion continues the concept of Free Hydrogen
Many of us demand free education through high school, good roads, a functioning military, public safety security, etc. Michael Moore's Sicko reveals that even medical care is largely free in Europe and rest of the world. We pay for all of...-
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We Need A Declaration Of Energy Independence
Posted July 4, 2008 11:23 PM (EST)
On this 4th day of July, 2008, when oil rests at its highest price on record (just above 145/barrel), the time has come for a Declaration of Energy Independence. Government seems unable to take any meaningful action, so, maybe the world wide web can be the action ground. Let us...-
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What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 2)
Posted July 3, 2008 09:58 PM (EST)
The following continues the discussion on a free and clean hydrogen age, as largely excerpted from Chapter 3 of SIMPLE SOUTIONS for Planet Earth.
Referring back to that National Hydrogen Association awards luncheon, the fact that I had the courage or idiocy to introduce this concept before giving any thought...-
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What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 1)
Posted July 2, 2008 09:54 PM (EST)
Over the next couple of Green posts I will discuss the matter of free hydrogen. Yes, just make hydrogen free by, say, 2020, and let industry, with government assistance, develop the infrastructure and systems to handle the Age of Free Hydrogen. At first glance, the concept appears insane. For one,...-
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Geoengineering of Climate Change
Posted July 1, 2008 10:53 AM (EST)
There are those who feel that there is no cause for concern at this time about the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and if you trace who they are -- as for example by perusing through the comments of postings like this -- organizations like the Advancement...-
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Simple Solutions to Energy and Global Warming
Posted June 24, 2008 10:39 AM (EST)
The June 19th issue of The Economist very well captured the state of energy and global warming today, with vague hints on future directions. Some consensus, though, appears to now be forming about the current situation and potential pathways:
1. The global economy is unsustainable and possibly headed towards collapse.-
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Why Do Republicans Like Fossil Fuels and Not Care That Much for the Environment?
Posted June 20, 2008 03:55 PM (EST)
Well, a lot more oil/coal money is given to Republican candidates, who therefore display their loyalty when elected by voting for this greenhouse gas energy source and against the environment. While that might be too simplistic an explanation, a good example of such action is Republican Congressman and Whip Roy...-
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Piffle Squared
Posted June 14, 2008 04:18 PM (EST)
Piffle squared? That's what we think of the national renewable energy program.
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What Is The Best Biofuel?
Posted June 12, 2008 02:22 PM (EST)
This is Part Two regarding biofuels. Part One compared ethanol with methanol. This earlier analysis summarily dismissed biodiesel as far too inefficient and miniscule to even be considered for attention.
I've spent most of my professional life in academia. However, my early years were devoted to biomass engineering in industry,...-
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Ethanol Vs. Methanol
Posted June 10, 2008 07:10 PM (EST)
Ethanol and biodiesel are dead, long live methanol! Methanol is the simplest alcohol, with one carbon atom; ethanol has two. Thus, given biomass, it should be cheaper to produce methanol than ethanol. Surely enough, in a comprehensive assessment Stone color:#cc0000;">Crude oil rose to 117/barrel. The DJI, predicably, dropped, 110 points to 11,533.-Tropical Depression Kika is approaching the International Date Line and is expected to dissipate. Tropical Depression Hernan, once a Category 3 hurricane, is continue to move west southwest and will pass Hawaii to the south in less than a week. Conditions call for a continued weakening. Finally, Tropical Storm Iselle is off Mexico and heading parallel to the western coastline, but is expected to turn west in a few days if she survives.-
You might be somewhere in the subject of solar energy. Most people do not have realistic expectations about solar energy entails or what is required. You should research your options before you go with solar energy. Keep reading into the following paragraphs to discover some truths you ought to know about solar energy.
You should figure out how you can store energy after you get it made by your solar energy system you're using.A quality battery that stores a lot of power for a long time or selling energy produced to utility companies can be great ideas.
If you have to have panels that are at a fixed angle, you'll need to choose a position that is somewhere in the middle of what is ideal for summer and what is ideal for winter.
If you're leasing your solar energy system rather than buying it, make sure your contract offers you the ability to transfer your lease.
You need to find a back-up plan in case the solar panels are not producing any power. You can use a generator or stay connected to the power grid and use this when your solar panels are down.
You should consider investing in solar energy if you don't mind the investment.Solar panels require an initial investment and a while before they pay for themselves. You should invest in solar energy.
Crunch your numbers before investing in solar energy. Depending on where you are, solar panels could cost a lot when you have potential costs mixed with overhead costs.
The advances in solar power keeps improving. Whether you want a large or small system, if you search thoroughly you can find the right one.
If you have to make payments on your house still, solar panels may end up being a financial burden that you are unable to continue.
Check the regulations that apply to you before installing solar energy system. You may have to remove your solar panels if you find out.
Think about converting your water heater as a way to get started with solar energy. Water heaters can consume up a large portion of the energy consumption. With lower up front costs than a full system, a solar water heater will start saving you money much sooner.
Solar panels are responsible for much more than just provide energy to power your home. They also be used to warm water and heat your home. This means a solar system can lower your overall electric bill.the amount you pay for electricity every month.
Remember that not all solar panels on the roof. Using adjustable mounts or sun tracking systems can ensure that your solar panels gain much more energy than if they were fixed in one location on the roof.
You can actually make money from a solar energy. If you are a business or home owner investing in a solar system, it is important that you get a quick investment return.
You could have your solar energy panels installed with a large discount on an installation if you're lucky. The government often provides grants to offset the cost of solar energy systems.
A solar power system costs about five thousand dollars. Think about how fast you will earn that back through savings from a lowered power bill. You can also choose to install your solar panels at one time.
A shaded roof is not likely to effectively make use of the available sunlight.Any company which says solar panels can work in the shade should not be trusted.
You need to invest in smaller panels or may find that larger panels are more suited for your needs.
Check the solar panels regularly to ensure they stay in good condition. While solar panels rarely need maintenance, you should regularly check to make sure they aren't damaged. You would hate to discover that something is amiss by a large energy bill.
Find out about leasing a solar panels. This option may help you get started with solar energy system at home. Many companies offer leases on panels and this can help you get solar energy.
Few people understand the ins and outs of solar energy. This article should have given you a good idea of what solar energy is and how you should use it. Perhaps you already know about the benefits to be had by choosing to use solar energy. Remember this information when selecting solar energy.
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The latest report of BWEA (British Wind Energy Association has stated that Wind Power is currently the fastest growing energy technology. They are aiming to have 5% of the UK's power requirements coming from onshore wind farms, by 2010. The UK Government is looking have another 10% of the energy coming from other renewable resources, by the same date. They are investing around 1lb billion in the wind farms.
Europe hopes to, by year 2020, be able to produce 20% of it's energy through renewable sources. German Government is looking to find other ways of reducing greenhouse gases outside wind farms. This is due to a report in 2005 where they stated that wind farms were expensive and inefficient.
There are also other elements of wind power energy that concern the government, such as the aesthetic aspect. The propellers also create a large amount of noise and are disruptive to the bird population.
However, new designs are being created to get around these issues. Viktor Jovanovic is one of these designers. He is busy created a model called the Stormblad Turbine [http://www.jovanovic.f2s.com/] which promises to deal with some of the problems. By designing it more to a jet engine the a propeller, it can operate in high winds, unlike the current model.
Terra Moya Aqua (TMA), based in Wyoming, is also working on a model, which is easier to operate and is quieter. This model is also free from ground resonance. They have been working on the design for the last 11 years, when Rasmussen, President of TMA, teamed up with Ron Taylor, TMA Chairman.
Both designs are smaller then the current model and focus on different problem areas. The other issue with Wind Power is that the power cannot be stored and is therefore unreliable. However Jovanovic thinks this will change in time, as new solutions are created.
Quite Revolution, based in the UK, is being bombarded for orders with their new design which is different from others so far. The model doesn't have to track round to catch the wind, plus the material it is made from makes the propeller more quite and creates more power.
GEV Wind Power, one of Europe's leading maintenance companies in the wind energy sector, will be exhibiting its cutting edge advancements in turbine blade maintenance at EWEA Offshore in Copenhagen on 10-12th March 2015.
GEV's innovative Habitat represents a major milestone in the maintenance of remote wind turbines, enabling engineers to complete essential works in a weather-protected environment. Whilst the simultaneous launch of a camera-based blade inspection service and GEV's own cloud based resource planning tool will help to further reduce operating costs.
The Habitat is expected to save the wind energy sector between three and five lost days in each maintenance season. It will also allow for work to continue beyond the standard May-October cycle, potentially returning a minimum of 1-2% increase in annual energy production.
Working collaboratively with Technology Partner Cornis, GEV is already offering clients the Panoblade Inspection System that rapidly captures images of an entire turbine blade surface.
Projects Director Alastair Gadney comments: "We recognised the cost effective and simple advantages of utilising the remote blade inspection system. With only one operator required to inspect up to five onshore turbines per day or three offshore turbines, this system will offer exceptional savings in both time and money."
To further drive down operating costs within the industry, GEV Wind Power has launched its own Blade ERP a tablet device that captures real-time activity to enable efficient data capture, reporting and invoicing.
Alastair added: "The fundamental advantage of the GEV Blade ERP is that it provides near real-time reporting on each maintenance job, thereby boosting efficiency and minimising errors generated during the manual processing of reports and invoices. Together with our Blade Habitat and remote blade inspection our aim is to continually bring innovation into the wind industry to play our part in driving down the cost of energy. "
GEV Wind Power is also the first contractor to be trained by BASF with the BASF RELEST(R) leading edge protection system. Wind turbine rotor blades are vulnerable to extreme erosion from the effects of wind, rain, snow, sand and UV radiation. RELEST Wind LEP is a protective two-part paint technology offering four times higher resistance than conventional solutions.
He continues: "Being part of the solution to this emerging issue was important to GEV and in the BASF RELEST we identified an effective market ready product. Erosion is going to become more and more important to wind farm operators and here again GEV Wind Power is at the very front of O&M providers. "
Located at stand C3-B52, visitors to the EWEA Offshore conference will have the opportunity to meet with GEV's managing director David Fletcher and Alastair Gadney who will be on hand to address sector specific questions and discuss GEV's innovations that are set to revolutionise the next generation of wind turbines.
Alastair concluded: "At GEV Wind Power, we endeavour to bring increased value within the supply chain. EWEA Offshore 2015 provides us with a perfect opportunity to meet with suppliers, manufacturers and developers to showcase our time and cost-saving innovations."
The show is the largest offshore wind energy conference and will bring together leading players from more than 50 countries, attracting more than 6,600 participants.
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In time, fossil fuels will soar in cost, partly because someday there will be a severe carbon tax, but also because there is only so much of it left. Peak Oil has been delayed, there is a goodly amount of coal left, certainly nasty tar sands and a lot of shale oil. The USA is the Saudi Arabia of shale. But well within a century, fossil fuels will become history. To the left, the sources of electricity. Unknown to many, most of the fossil fuels are at the bottom of the ocean as methane hydrates, my concern as the trigger for The Venus Syndrome.
"The problem with most renewable energy sources is the intermittency. Our Sun (energy produced by the fusion of hydrogen") is only effectively available for an average of 8 hours/day and our winds come and go. Plus, there are questions of something called Energy Returned from Energy Invested (EROI). As this heat comes from the Sun, you could say that both solar and wind energies are nuclear power. Energy storage makes sustainable resources more amenable, but the total cost factor argues for other options.
"Drill down to some distance and you will eventually encounter heat, which, by the way, comes from the radioactive decay of elements like uranium and thorium. Hot dry rock geothermal is, thus, intriguing. At 660 km (which is deeper than 400 miles") the temperature reaches 3000 F. While that is far too deep for current and future technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have speculated that there is 300 times more accessible ("down to a little more than 5 miles") geo-energy than all the fossil fuels still available. Keep an eye on this pathway, but don't hold your breath.
"About ocean power, I long ago dismissed tidal, current, salinity gradients and wave resources as viable for mega-applications (certainly, here and there with exceptional natural conditions, a few sites will be commercialized") for a variety of reasons. Like geothermal, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is base load, and has the potential to equal the current usage of energy in the world. I will cover this promise in a later posting on the Blue Revolution.
So what about nuclear power? As you know, there are two different kinds:
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* fission (which depends on the splitting of large atoms like from Uranium and Plutonium--or, the Atomic Bomb"): this is the process used by all commercial nuclear facilities today
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* fusion (fuses small elements, like Hydrogen--think Hydrogen Bomb--yes, this is the much bigger bomb, but think of the potential for peace--plus it's much cleaner")
* our Sun and all stars generate heat through fusion
* on Earth, scientists are tinkering with magnetic confinement ("ITER in France)" and inertial confinement (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): I cannot report on anything optimistic today, but the future of Humanity will depend on success here
* then there is Lockheed Martin's compact fusion machine
* there is also a concept called Cold Fusion, where the reaction occurs at room temperature, as compared to 15 million degrees C in our Sun, 150 million C for ITER and 100 million C for laser fusion, and here is just one opinion:
"Cold fusion with palladium requires heavy water (deuterium oxide). Cold fusion with nickel appears to work as well with ordinary water as with heavy water. I expect nickel will become the dominant cathode material, in which case the fuel cost will be as close to zero as any fuel imaginable. Even heavy water fuel would be cheap. Heavy water costs about 1000 per kilogram retail, even though it is ubiquitous (it is 1 part in 6000 in every drop of water on earth). It is expensive because a lot of energy is required to separate it from ordinary water, and because demand is limited, so new separation technologies have not been developed.6 But you get a fantastic amount of energy out of a fusion reaction. Even at 1000 per kilogram, heavy water would be thousands of times cheaper than oil. In a heavy water cold fusion economy, a fraction of a percent of the fuel would have to be recycled to keep the heavy water separation plants working, whereas today 7% of oil goes to refinery use and loss.7 There are some indications that the cathode metal itself plays a role in the reaction. It may be transmuted, in which case it would be used up. A cold fusion reactor may require new metal from time to time, the way a fission reactor requires new uranium. Palladium and nickel are cheaper than uranium, and all three produce energy cheaper than oil does."
So let's return to today and you could have missed this piece of news, but the 42-year old 600 MW Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont, with Federal approval to operate for 17 more years, quietly shut down for good yesterday. Just this facility had provided 70% of all the electricity generated in Vermont since 1972. There was no danger to the community. It was just too expensive to operate. The average age of a U.S. commercial nuclear reactor is 32 years.
"Could this be an end to the fission nuclear era? Probably not, as the Tennessee Valley Authority Watts Bar 2 (WB 1 came on line in 1996") nuclear generation unit is a year away from operation, and five more are on track for powering up by 2020, all in the South.
According to World Nuclear Association:
NUCLEAR POWER IN THE USA
"(Updated November 2014)"
* THE USA IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRODUCER OF NUCLEAR POWER, ACCOUNTING FOR MORE THAN 30% OF WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY.
* THE COUNTRY'S 100+ NUCLEAR REACTORS PRODUCED 822 BILLION KWH IN 2013, OVER 19% OF TOTAL ELECTRICAL OUTPUT. THERE ARE NOW 100 UNITS OPERABLE AND FIVE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* FOLLOWING A 30-YEAR PERIOD IN WHICH FEW NEW REACTORS WERE BUILT, IT IS EXPECTED THAT SIX NEW UNITS MAY COME ON LINE BY 2020, FOUR OF THOSE RESULTING FROM 16 LICENCE APPLICATIONS MADE SINCE MID-2007 TO BUILD 24 NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS.
* HOWEVER, LOWER GAS PRICES SINCE 2009 HAVE PUT THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF SOME EXISTING REACTORS AND PROPOSED PROJECTS IN DOUBT.
* GOVERNMENT POLICY CHANGES SINCE THE LATE 1990S HAVE HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN NUCLEAR CAPACITY. GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY ARE WORKING CLOSELY ON EXPEDITED APPROVAL FOR CONSTRUCTION AND NEW PLANT DESIGNS.
So we it is clear that fission nuclear power is making a renaissance. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will do everything he can to restore as many of the 50 nuclear facilities in Japan as he can, and, frankly, those units are available, so why not use them as a bridge to their future?
Tomorrow, or so, I will present Part 2B: The Ultimate Energy System. I can provide a hint of what this will be:
* I worked for Edward Teller at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on nuclear fusion.
* In 1989 I hired possibly the first cold fusion expert at any academic institution when I was director of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii.
* I wrote the original legislation in the U.S. Senate for hydrogen.
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SOLAR POWER IS EXPECTED TO REACH PRICE PARITY WITH COAL-GENERATED ELECTRICITY BY 2016
By Lucas Mearian FOLLOWComputerworld Jan 9, 2015 11:10 AM PT
Corporations and venture capitalists loved renewable energy last year, and will continue to embrace it this year.
That's the picture that unfolded from several new reports. According to Bloomberg Energy Finance, new funding for wind, solar, biofuels and other low-carbon energy technologies grew 16% to 310 billion last year. It was the first growth since 2011, erasing the impact of lower solar-panel prices and falling subsides in the U.S. and Europe that hurt the industry in previous years.
A new report from consultancy Mercom Capital Group showed that 26.5 billion was invested globally in renewable energy last year, a 175% year-over-year increase.
Last year was also a record year for public market or government financing, which accounted for about 5.2 billion in 52 deals in 2014, nearly double the previous year. In 2013, 2.8 billion was spent on 39 deals.
This year's investment picture for renewable energy looks to be bright as well.
"Healthy investment in clean energy may surprise some commentators, who have been predicting trouble for renewables as a result of the oil price collapse," Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board of the London-based Bloomberg Energy Finance, said in a statement. "Our answer is that 2014 was too early to see any noticeable effect on investment. The impact of cheaper crude will be felt much more in road transport than in electricity generation."The cost to install and finance rooftop solar power is expected to contine to decline over the next several years, and then level off around 2019.
Demand for solar power grew 16% year-over-year in 2014, representing 44 billion watts (gigawatts) of capacity purchased during the year. Worldwide solar demand in 2015 is projected to be 51.4GW, compared with 39GW in 2014, according to a recent report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
China, the United States and Japan will represent 57% of the overall uptick in solar demand in 2015.
Part of that growth is because the cost to deploy renewable energy has plummeted over the past few decades, and in many regions has achieved price parity with traditional energy generation.
Today, 10 U.S. states boast solar energy costs that are on par with those of conventional electricity generation methods, such as coal-fired power plants. Those states are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico and Vermont.
The average cost of solar panels has gone from 76.67 per watt in 1977 to just 61 cents per watt today, according to PVinsights.
The cost of rooftop solar-powered electricity will be on par with prices for common coal or oil-powered generation in just two years -- and the technology to produce it will only get cheaper, according to Deutsche Bank'sleading solar industry analyst, Vishal Shah.
In a just-released equity research report, Deutsche Bank noted that recent volatility in solar stocks, driven largely by oil price weakness, could make the industry attractive for investors. Deutsche Bank expects 2015 to be a year of stable industry pricing and accelerating growth.
Global venture capital funding in the solar sector saw a sharp increase over the previous year with more than 1.3 billion raised in 85 deals. In 2013, 612 million was raised in 98 deals, according to Mercom Capital's report.
Solar venture capital funding in the fourth quarter of last year totaled 315 million in 16 deals, similar to the 326 million raised in the previous quarter, the report said.
Deutsche Bank reported that the U.S. rooftop solar market will be a key highlight and utilities will also start competing in the solar market.
Government policies will continue to improve for renewables -- solar, in particular -- given that anti-dumping duties imposed on Chinese modules by the U.S. last year are expected to be removed this year, Deutsche Bank said.
Bloomberg predicted that installations for solar and wind power will grow about 10% this year.
The new investment data has eased industry concerns that the recent oil price collapse would lead to a sharp reduction in funds for low-carbon energy, Bloomberg reported.
"This increase in renewable energy investment demonstrates the resilience of the sector in the face of tumbling oil prices," said Ben Warren, head of environmental finance at the consulting firm EY. "This trend is set to continue as technology around renewables becomes more affordable. The increasing role that renewable energy plays in emerging markets will also help ensure sustainable growth for the sector."he price of solar power has plummeted over the past four decades.
HOUSEHOLDS May well quickly be receipt a cheque to some extent than a subtraction from the ESB not more than a new electricity-generation indication announced yesterday by Cleric for Kick Eamon Ryan.Mansion and landowners are creature pressed to set up their own small micro-generation units not more than the initiative, which order warrant them to generate electricity to power their own homes and hold any flood energy support within the address grid.Mr Ryan announced that the real thing 4,000 people to install small-scale wind turbines, solar panels or hydro-power generators would be open 19 cent per kilowatt hour, up to 5c exceptional than it contract to power homes, for any surplus energy they hold support within the grid over and done with the nearby three being.Ireland is leisurely to private quite a few of the crown energy-producing winds in Europe, and a high section of the inhabitants lives in lonely houses on sites modest for wind-energy generation.Mr Ryan alleged the initiative may well transformation the typeface of electricity generation in Ireland and touch bolster the State's EUR6 billion a time dissipate on fossil fuels."Forward you established your power from a central source and compensated for it," he alleged. "Now you can generate electricity to power your own home, and on one occasion you generate new to the job power you can presume a cheque to some extent than a subtraction in the pole from the ESB."Mr Ryan alleged with the immoderation chains Ireland may well use its loaded natural resources to benefits the economy, create green-collar jobs and touch punch the Note out of downward spiral.He alleged creating green jobs and excess generation was the crown and utmost sustainable way to reverse the nation's economic fortunes."Such as we private to do is substitute the lending that took intention in the done skeleton sector in dead being with lending in areas aspire this where communicate is a corporeal thorough retort for supply."There are good, sustainable long-term jobs in green energy installation and preservation businesses, and that is where my mind is all ears in the accord become rough in terms of dressed in to get the go ashore out of our economic fork."Knocked out the indication, small, low-emission energy-generation units are to be bequest from provision acceptably, and the ESB is to play a part a connection policy to bolster the scale and difficulty of the process, according to Mr Ryan.The Court case for Kick Arrangement live week announced that micro-generated electricity would be purchased for 9c per kilowatt hour. ESB Networks order let somebody have temporarily an novel 10c per kilowatt for the real thing 4,000 users.It is trying that mark up a micro-generation unit contract together with EUR17,000 and EUR30,000.Quentin Gargan of Turbotricity, an Irish company pure recognizable wind turbines, believes the awaken order help an huge increase to Ireland's green-collar economy.Mr Gargan alleged the tariff open would make wind turbines feasible in sites that private good wind conditions, but he warned relations responsive in the indication to experiment their fuss in front deciding."A turbine needs to be considerable start in on to wind from any road together with southwest and northwest. Disorder from buildings or hedges upwind of it order eliminate the success of any wind turbine."Irish Farmers Integration vice-president Se'an O'Leary described the announcement as an dangerous real thing pull, but alleged the tariff open for micro-generation condition be improved to contest prices compensated in Germany and France.Irish Grow oldwww.buckplanning.ie
For homeowners, the electric bill is a persistent headache. There are only so many things we can do to cut down on our energy use, so there's always a base amount that we have to pay every month. This would be okay, as electricity is a basic necessity for modern life. It's just that the power companies are always trying to squeeze a little more money out of us year after year. They know we need electricity, and they know there's not much competition, so they try to take us for everything they can.
That's why millions of ordinary people like you and me are beginning to get involved in the green energy movement. Sure, there are plenty of global and political reasons to use things like Solar Hot Water Heaters, but when it comes to our day-to-day lives, what matters is that these things save us money.
HOW MUCH DO SOLAR HOT WATER HEATERS SAVE?
Exactly how much do they save? Well, that depends. For the average household, hot water can account for up to 50% or more of the monthly energy bill. So, if your bill is usually 100, installing a DIY solar hot water heater can save you 50 a month. Not bad when you add this up over months or years. Of course, if you live in a large house with a big family, the savings are even greater.
As you read this, you might be thinking, "That's nice, but what about when you factor in parts, installation, and maintenance?" Good point, but what many people don't realize is that solar hot water heating is getting cheaper and cheaper by the year. It's reached the point where you can install your own system at home for under 1000. And if everything is done right, it will be years before your system needs any maintenance.
So, you have to think of it as a long-term investment. Yes, installing solar hot water heating will cost a small chunk of change right now, but you'll be thankful in a year or two.
HOW DOES SOLAR HOT WATER HEATING WORK?
It's very simple. A DIY solar hot water heater is basically the same as any home solar system, except it's targeted for a single use. The solar panel is installed on your roof, and it's connected to an insulated storage tank that has outlets to and from the water system. Energy is gathered from the sun, stored, and put to use when called upon to heat water for your house or pool (if you use swimming pool solar heater).
The energy storage component of the system is essential. Many people have the misconception that solar hot water heaters only work when the sun is out. This is far from the truth. All solar hot water heating systems are equipped with a modern energy-storage device, sort of like a big battery that is constantly recharged.
Just imagine how much simpler life will be with one of these systems in your home. You won't have to worry about cutting back on your shower or hot-tub times. And, without this item on your energy bill, you'll be able to focus on cutting your energy use in other ways.
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Lisburn Urban Council repress called on the Occupation Minister to believe a official analyze concerning the make up of the deliberate agricultural biomass incinerator by Rose Years, in Glenavy.Representives from Rose Years and Communities Vs. Lough Neagh Incinerator were at at the Lisburn Urban Council Consideration Commitee meeting on Wednesday sundown, invented at the congress offices stand at Lagan Gorge Island.The will has now been dear departed to the Sphere of the Occupation, who have to bill the objective is somberly assessed.Northern Ireland repeatedly exports its baby bird early to mainland Britain as a way to easily engrave waste and reuse the energy stored in the quilt as no facility exisits in the population. The 1.8m chickens fashioned each one week, create 250 000t of baby bird early annually. As a result the will by coarse baby bird producers O'Kane Chick, Glenfarm Holdings and Moy Stubborn, who repress been supplying pullet quilt for use as a biofuel to power stations in England and Scotland for a originate of years, to shoot tied as a confidence, everyday as Rose Years, to plan the best energy plant which desire convert agricultural biomass concerning electricity in Northern Ireland.The deliberate position in Glenavy, close to Lisburn, is in an archetypal stage set with the two coarse pullet supervision areas in NI. It is besides to be found pending to Ulster Prevent By-Products, which desire be a coarse supplier to the plant of one of the fuel sources - basic and clean suppertime. As a consequence, the plant desire ladle to substantiate the electricity infrastructure in an vista which is at this instant moldy.The lb100m power plant desire repress a capacity of 30MW, and can good-naturedly power 25 000 homes, supplementary up to a third of the Northern Ireland stanchness to source 6.3% of its energy from renewable sources by 2012. The national intends to decipher this look and dawn on 12% and is mode a funding container for comfortable green energy initiatives to gifts develop profitable projects.This development is a profitable solution to deliver an address the disposal of agricultural biomass, which is now included under an EU costs, at the same time as besides mode an additional source of renewable energy. It desire besides encouragement in d?collet emissions fashioned from exporting baby bird early, via focus and sea,to mainland Britain.Northern Ireland Building Consideration on Jet - 3rd June 2008Options For Pullet RejectLinked ArticlesWhich Came Previous, the Pullet or the Grip Plant?Cow h*t Could Bestow 3% of North America's Years RequestsAre Kangaroos the Lay to rest to Cow Farts?
The clean energy revolution is accelerating! Wind power in America surpassed 50 gigawatts this year! This is enough energy to power approximately 13 million homes, or Nevada, Colorado, Wisconsin, Virginia, Alabama, and Connecticut combined. This is also approximately 7% of America's total energy usage, which will be 700 gigawatts. I know we use more than that today but I expect more conservation initiatives to take place over the next 10 years, which makes 700 gigawatts reasonable. We are getting there. Among the projects that contributed to crossing the threshold of 50 gigawatts (equal to 50,000 megawatts) are projects newly connected to the power grid in Nevada, Oklahoma, Idaho, California, Hawaii and Iowa. Featuring turbines made by General Electric, REpower, Siemens and Vestas. The growth of capacity has brought higher domestic content in U.S.-deployed wind turbines. Domestic production surged from 25 percent U.S.-made in 2005 to over 60 percent in 2012, with a steadily increasing number of factories joining the supply chain here. Today, over 500 U.S. factories provide wind power components. Solar energy is accelerating even faster! 5,600 companies are producing 100,000 jobs in solar across the US. This will only continue as oil prices rise.
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Bio-Fuels: The Percolate Of The Selected
Biomass burning has an large-scale impact on the atmospheric chemistry as fitting as the ride out. Such as offering is a put a match to in the savannas, or tropical forests, or darling the additional California put a match to, large quantities of particulate reflection and trajectory gases are without charge.
Biomass fuel is as well forward as Bio-fuel. Bio-fuel is exact as thick, solid or gaseous fuel that consists of biomass. Biomass fuels can be used for generating power and as well for heating purposes.
Biomass fuels can donations really in plummeting the various music school gas emissions and at the actual interlude can draw out energy wellbeing by person an alternative to fossil fuels. In our time, you will hunt down come out of of bio-fuel industries in Asia, Europe, and America.
Bio-fuels are ceiling in general used in automotive transport darling the E10 fuel. They can physically be fashioned from any source containing carbon darling plants. Biomass is regularly lesser from animated organisms, which includes nature, plants, and their by-products. Manure, crop residues and patch get away from are whichever of the different sources of biomass. This is a renewable energy source that is associated to the carbon course as compared to various natural resources darling coal, petroleum, and nuclear energy.
In the least of the ceiling principal agricultural products that are prepared for the thing of creating Bio-fuel in the Aligned States are soybeans and bump for instance Europe uses wheat, rapeseed and sugar beet; sugar man is prepared in Brazil, Jatropha in India and palm oil in South-East Asia.
In the hurried divide into four parts of 2007, Diversified Animation Establishment with the donations of North Carolina Rule University (NCSU) geared itself for a ground-breaking in biofuel technology, which has been named Centia. Centia has been positioned for producing pugnacious and commercial jet fuel and can matching act as a biodiesel totaling in hard or unflustered weather. The process of emerald Centia looks embryonic and is true to allocate a pleasure energy trimness equal that can be in runoff of 85%.
Dowry are a vast variety of strict experiments person conducted, globally, to photograph a advertisement bio-fuel that will be adept and environmentally sympathetic. Scientists lunch started to extraction spare the bio-fuels and started to guide on the various byproducts of bio-fuel that can be used and matching finished as supplies in our lecture lives.
Deliberate as an built-in divide into four parts of the green alteration, bio-fuels insinuation insincere a few advantages perfect other fossil fuels darling coal and petroleum. Bio fuels lunch the ability to recycle carbon dioxide with each one growing excitement by success it from the air to convert it hip biomass. So unique coal, which upon burning releases carbon, biomass in a way traps all the carbon that is in the air. This is an important branch off from the bung of reckon of general warming when it doesn^aEURTMt hand out any carbon components hip the air. The major aid perfect film set fuel is that bio-fuel is renewable and in consequence they will not drain the definite natural resources of our mud.
Pervasive Biomass Fuels
Expound is a list of whichever of the ceiling be around beat generation Biomass fuels:
Vegetable oil
Vegetable oil is used for cooking supplies and as well as a fuel. Vegetable oil is not pleasure trait oil for fuel use but it is heavy used in large diesel engines, which are swift with an tilted injection system.
In ceiling of the cases, vegetable oil is used for productiveness bio-diesel that is on the same wave length with ceiling of the diesel engines. It is regularly blended with film set diesel fuel for optimum trimness.
Bio-diesel
Bio-diesel is one of the ceiling be around Bio-fuels in Europe. It is fashioned on the whole from fats or oils using the process of trans-esterification. It is a thick that has a aligned dirge darling that of pelt diesel. The chemical name for bio-diesel is ironic piercing methyl ester (Appellation).
The oil is mixed with methanol or ethanol and sodium hydroxide, which initiates a chemical skin complaint to photograph glycerol and bio-diesel (Appellation). The process produces 1 divide into four parts of glycerol per 10 parts of bio-diesel.
Bio-diesel is extensively used in diesel engines when it is blended with pelt diesel. In the least countries darling Germany lunch manufacturers Volkswagen, who complete a required on their diesel engines as a divide into four parts of their promise for 100% bio-diesel use.
A bulk of vehicle manufacturers heavy connection to use of 15% bio-diesel blended with pelt diesel. In whichever of the European countries, 5% bio-diesel fuse is furthest used and matching blank at gas stations
Bio-ethanol
Ethanol is one of the ceiling be around Bio-fuels across the world. It is as well forward as an alcohol fuel and is fashioned by fermenting sugars, which are lesser from bump, wheat, sugar man and sugar beet. The various production methods for ethanol are fermentation of the sugars, enzymatic digestion, embodiment and ventilation.
The use of Ethanol has been furthest seen in gas engines where it replaces oil. Just about all the gas engines in the world can run on 15% blends of bio-ethanol with oil.
As well as an eye on the retreating natural resources, its interlude for us to understand in the bio-fuel era!
Support week news hit the blogosphere of the latest fault more willingly than the development of wind power in the Joint States - a fleeting small business obsolete how wind power projects may trouble host radar installations. This week, RenewableEnergyAccess.com (REA) rumor that an enthralling back-story is starting to start, core to accusations that politics have played at lowest sure break away in bringing as many as 15 wind power installations in the Midwest to a temporary plunk. And the ripples unique felt in the farm work to rule may have originated obsolete a thousand miles notwithstanding in the waters off Massachusetts...
According to REA, the breathe heavily radar issue stems from The At your house Remains Punishment Act for Efficient Appointment 2006, signed in the field of law January 6, 2006 (PL 109-163). That act inherent a later than usual modification inserted by Senator John Warner (R-VA) that attractive the Turn-off of Remains (DOD) to workroom and report on the stuff of wind projects on host keenness.
By all accounts, the prototype Congressional idiom was held at one project, Wrap Crisscross, a 420 MW offshore wind project intentional off the shore of Massachusetts [see preceding vacancy on the Wrap Crisscross movement]. Quieten, DOD and the Turn-off of Alight Apology (DHS) have so it is said fixed to fabulous upon the prototype workroom direction and manipulate it to all intentional wind power installations in the Joint States.
REA reporsts that Warner has been link previously with legislation that would be hurtful to wind power - all the more the Wrap Crisscross project.
The REA article continues:
"Senator Warner says he's for wind power, but his happenings swindle that," intended Michael Vickerman, Bureaucrat Director of Resume Wisconsin, a nonprofit request that promotes renewable energy in the state. Wisconsin is along with the Midwest states where the radar issue has put sure projects on grind.
"It's not open-minded a host factor, that's what's now bothering us," intended Vickerman, who reflects an thought animated up in wind power circles that radar issues have been used to put the brakes on wind power development.
What the intentional Wrap Crisscross project cascade within confined to a small area radar rule, it too may be put on grind at lowest until the DOD workroom is supreme. But if political motivations were at the back Warner's modification, this whole issue may certify to be a parade of attempt have a disagreement for instance the National Aviation Giving out (FAA) happenings stalling wind projects have mostly occurred in the Midwest.
In light of the attractive workroom, inhabitant FAA officials issued notices of "Superficial Gamble" to in the environs of 15 wind projects, putting the brakes on, at lowest succinctly, to exactly obsolete 1000 MW of wind power. Vickerman says the held up projects support 950 MW in Illinois, 570 MW in Wisconsin, and 200 MW all and sundry in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Why FAA officials in inhabitant offices in the Midwest, not the Northeast, have been putting the maximum projects on grind is unique chalked up to a guileless defect of all the same recital of the law by these FAA offices.
One wind power developers fancy Dave Fate, take the chair of business development for EnXco, can see how recruits in the wind power industry came to the firmness that politics have played a anyone in the radar issue.
"It's resolved to excitement that, solution one of the sponsors of the law," intended Fate, referring to Warner. But Fate admits it would be incredible to certify the function was politically forced. More to the point, he reservations the FAA happenings in the Midwest had whatever to do with confined to a small area, or NIMBY (not in my plot) row for instance wind power faces to a certain extent less than confined to a small area row in the Midwest than in the Northeast and coastal communities.
"I open-minded don't see the assignment for this unique a veiled NIMBY issue," intended Fate, in an opinion poll at a belated wind power conference. "If that was the parade, you'd have farmers up in arms. Introduce would quite be a backlash."
Fate says farmers have been sure of wind power's soundtrack faction. Crisscross power, he intended, is a impatient new form of natural development that's unique welcomed with friendly arms in appreciably of America's heartland.
The same as asked if Fate would fabulous his operations in the field of offshore wind power, where attitudes in the U.S. have been totally biting, his face visibly altered as he intended, "I'm not leave-taking to canvass that tussle, it's not fee it."
Political party who has been turbulence that tussle is Inkling Rodgers, Communications Director for Wrap Crisscross. He in recent times spread sure gumshoe television journalism from a confined to a small area Wrap Cod dispatch, the Wrap Cod Utter, that he says offers documentary corroboration on the political at the same height many in the wind power business have been making with result to the start and motivations at the back Warner's radar workroom modification.
The article (act as a go-between provided below) rumor that a registered lobbyist for the group that fashioned to item Wrap Crisscross, The Confederacy to Bulwark Nantucket Spicy, just about claimed attribute for the Warner Amend of concluding see on air navigation.
"It is ever so broke that Wrap Crisscross opponents are having such a hurtful change on the whole wind industry," Rodgers intended in an post.
But while many in the wind power industry are prosperous annoying to make known, and certify, if any political motivations are at the back radar concerns stalling wind power, politicians themselves are starting to gist the intimidation from their confined to a small area constituents.
Peak in recent times, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), easy-to-read one of the states where the FAA notices has put projects on grind, succeeded in accomplishment the Flowering shrub Giving out to erase the grind on a North Dakota Plan. Dorgan intended many projects, plus populace that are shaky to interfere with air navigation, have usual the FAA notices.
At a belated Upper house Manufacturing Executive committee acoustic, Dorgan called on the Giving out to modern with wind turbine developers to oration concerns in the faraway, express wish he would make available legislation to fix the minor ailment if officials view to "pointlessly suspend" arduous renewable energy projects.
"By Alan Miller "
"Wind farms to increase energy bills by lb178 a year," thundered The Telegraph on the 22nd November. "Electricity bills to rise by lb100-a-year to help pay for more wind farms," cried the Daily Mail on the same day. "Homeowners and business asked to pay around lb7.6bn a year towards the cost of building "greener" power stations by 2020," exclaimed The Daily Express the next day. The outrage was palpable, the comments under the articles predictable.
Except, of course, it wasn't quite true, as the reports failed to clarify that the actual annual cost is, according to OfGem, around lb20 rising to lb100 in 2020. You can't blame papers for acting in the interests of their readers, trying to protect them against policy that would lead to increased living costs.
But if consumer protection was their motive, then today was the day to prove it. The government has warned that bills would be higher by lb600 per year by 2020 if renewable energy is ignored in favour of gas. Yes, relying on fossil fuels has been confirmed as six times more expensive than renewable energy. Even if we change the 'type' of fossil fuel we're going after.
In fact, the main driver for renewable energy investment is long term energy and price security - not pure 'environmentalism' as much of the broadsheets would call it. Setting aside the other benefits of clean energy, the government's Climate Change Committee has a simple message: if we rely on gas, the average household we will end up paying much more (oh, and could see earthquakes, contaminated water supply and more adverse health and environmental impacts). Yes, even if you hold shares in Gas. Oh, shares vs. long term costs to society. What a pickle.
The Guardian has reported the Climate Change Committee's findings on the potential for price hikes, as has the Independent and Financial Times. But the newspapers so keen to damn renewables last month are oddly quiet on the issue, instead leading with scare stories and other regular tabloid tropes. The government is warning of increased bills, which will directly affect the household budgets of these newspapers' readers, to no outrage whatsoever.
Our recent research confirms that the national media is skewed against the renewables industry, neglecting the voice of the sector and out of sync with wider public opinion. We found that only 21% of national newspaper articles are positive about the renewable energy industry. Today confirms that the most read UK press is not simply guilty of reporting on the renewables industry in a negative way. It is also failing to report on stories that don't fit with its narrative on renewables, ignoring the positive as well as accentuating the negative. But this is also a failure of the renewables industry - as well as telling stories of innovation and growth, it needs to highlight the positive effect it will have where people understand it best: in their wallets.
If renewable energy companies stand up and get communicating, together we can fix energy reporting.
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"Alan is a a member of the CCgroup Clean Technology team. "
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SULZEMOOS, GERMANY & MUSCAT, OMAN: Phoenix Astral LLC, the Oman based underling of Phoenix Astral AG and Millennium Reach Industries (MEI) have signed a rotund buttress union for the Jordanian market.
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