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Bipartisan Report Calls for Clean Energy, Fails to Address Climate, Fossil Fuel Impacts
The Bipartisan Policy Center issued a report today called “America’s Energy Resurgence: Sustaining Success, Confronting Challenges.” The report offers a strong plan for increasing energy efficiency.[read more]
Obama Embraces Natural Gas Vehicles In A Billion Dollar Way
President Obama today used a visit to a Daimler plant in North Carolina that makes trucks that run on natural gas as a platform to promote his energy agenda, and in the process continued to push the green-vehicle envelope. Among other things, the president touted a $1 billion “Race for the Top”-type challenge for alternative vehicle...[read more]
How do solar leasing companies make money?
How can companies like SunRun, Sungevity, and SolarCity provide a zero down or $1000 down solar lease while charging less per month than a utility company? Here’s a high level overview of how solar leasing companies make money. The first step is project finance. Because there is a 30% federal tax credit for residential solar...[read more]
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“Most hydro projects do not just serve as power generation but provide flood defenses and also a more regular irrigation source for the local land. I would go so far as saying the majority of the worlds dams produce electricity as an important byproduct while the flood protection and irrigation are their primary reason to be.”
“I'm afraid that our decision-making systems make any meaningful climate change action pretty much impossible before climate change actually starts having a direct, consistent and clearly attributable negative impact on the lives of a large portion of the electorate. It will probably take many more ppm for this to happen.In the meantime, the best we can do is to prepare for very rapid changes to ...”