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• Is the Cleantech Leasing Model Done?

  By travisbradford on June 28, 2016

  If you spend enough time talking to people in cleantech, you’ll often hear them talk excitedly about how new business models will be key to unlocking the low-carbon energy economy. But what if it could end up killing your company?… Read More ›

• The Carbonate Solution, Part 1: Brute Force

  By travisbradford on June 28, 2016

  This week I want to expand on the potential role of carbonate minerals for fighting rising CO₂ levels in the atmosphere. Previously, in Treasure of the Sierra Nevada and Cruising to Vegas I had explained how moving some of the… Read More ›

• Could Peak Coal Really Be Here?

  By travisbradford on June 28, 2016

  The world’s coal resources are clearly huge. How could China, or the world in total, reach peak coal in a timeframe that makes a difference? If we look at China’s coal production and consumption in BP’s 2016 Statistical… Read More ›

• An Icelandic Power Plant Is Turning Its Carbon Emissions Into Stone (Really)

  By travisbradford on June 10, 2016

  Researchers from Columbia University have helped develop a method for safe, long-term carbon containment–one that’s been proven to work. via Forbes.com: Energy News http://ift.tt/21aBl9H

• Quarterly coal production lowest since the early 1980s

  By travisbradford on June 10, 2016

  June 10, 2016 Coal production in the first three months of 2016 was… Read More ›

• Torpedoing the 2030 Energy Efficiency Target

  By travisbradford on June 9, 2016

  The European Commission, in preparing a new proposal on an EU energy efficiency target, has adopted somewhat more realistic assumptions than it did last time around, writes Brook Riley of Friends of the Earth Europe. But according to Riley, voices… Read More ›

• New IEA Report Says 1.26 Million Electric Cars Sold In 2015

  By travisbradford on June 7, 2016

  A report from the IEA says 1.26 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2015. That’s a good sign, but there is a long way to go before electric cars go mainstream The post New IEA Report Says 1.26 Million… Read More ›

• Renewables Are Getting Cheaper. But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Eliminate Subsidies, Says IEA

  By travisbradford on June 7, 2016

  Now that renewable energy has become the lowest-cost source of electricity in a growing number of energy markets, one might assume that the growth of generation technologies like wind and solar will accelerate by virtue of simple price advantage.   … Read More ›

• Rising wholesale markets improving economics of home battery storage

  By travisbradford on June 3, 2016

  Your author recently attended the Australian Energy Storage conference and exhibition held over two days at the Australian Technology Park Sydney. Two full days on batteries (and other forms of storage) what more could an enthusiast ask for. Despite a… Read More ›

• Solar Will Replace Nearly All Retiring Coal in Texas

  By travisbradford on June 3, 2016

  In the next 15 years, Texas expects to add somewhere between 14 and 27 gigawatts of solar capacity, according to a new long-term system assessment from the state’s grid operator, ERCOT. ERCOT is considering eight different scenarios, such as continued… Read More ›

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