The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 (WNISR) was released overnight. For nearly 30 years, these reports have provided important factual antidotes to industry promotion and obfuscation. This year’s report is the […]
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Carbon Market Mechanisms Around The World
The following is an excerpt from a new CleanTechnica report, The Carbon Cure: Effective Actions to Combat Climate Change through Carbon Markets. For more on the types of carbon markets across the world and their role […]
The Renewable Revolution Could Save The World $26 Trillion
An economic model of “decisive transition” away from fossil fuels and toward a clean energy economy shows that rapid decarbonization not only wouldn’t break the bank — it would save the world […]
IEA Chief: Don’t Blame Renewables For Europe’s Energy Crunch
The energy squeeze in Europe has nothing to do with the continent’s energy transition plans, the head of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol told the European Parliament’s energy and environment committees. […]
The Energy Crisis Is Sending Oil, Gas, And Coal Prices Soaring
Just ahead of the winter season, Europe’s natural gas crunch created a snowball effect in global energy markets. What started as very low gas inventories in Europe during the summer is now […]
Plugin Vehicles Hit 22% Market Share In Europe In August!
The European passenger plugin vehicle market is staying in the fast lane. More than 155,000 plugin vehicles were registered in August — which is +60% year over year (YoY). This performance is […]
Howarth/Jacobson “Blue” Hydrogen Assessment Stronger Than Bauer Et Al’s (Part 2 of 2)
In the first part of my assessment of Jacobson and Howarth’s lifecycle assessment of CO2e emissions from the manufacturing of CO2e, I covered the provenance of the paper, the scope variances of […]
Vehicle-to-Grid Programs Give Rise to Mobile Microgrids
In recent years, a few utilities have begun testing vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects to determine whether electric vehicles (EVs) or EV fleets can support the grid when it’s stressed — making the vehicles […]
US, China commit to phase down climate-warming HFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners – but what will replace them this time?
Scott Denning, Colorado State University The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to start eliminating a class of climate-warming chemicals that are widely used as coolants in refrigerators, air conditioners […]
It’s spring on the NEM, when daytime prices go negative and coal plants learn to dance
It’s spring time: The garden’s beautiful and wholesale electricity prices on Australia’s National Electricity Market are volatile Global Roam, via NEM Review, lets me look at the electricity market in glorious detail. […]
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