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Concentrated Solar Power’s Question Of Scale: Why Bigger Is Not Better

May 5, 2011 by Bea Gonzalez
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In a bid to identify the tipping point between scale and cost efficiency, the latest report from CSP Today, ‘CSP Parabolic Trough Report: Costs and Performance’, challenges the conventional wisdom on scale and cost.Scaling up plant size is often cited as the concentrated solar power sector’s silver bullet for lowering costs. The theory... [read more]

Ontario Making Strong Progress On Smartgrid Development

May 4, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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The Ontario Smart Grid Forum, a group led by the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator, released today its latest report on smart grid development. The report, titled “Modernizing Ontario’s Electricity System: Next Steps,” documents progress that has been made since the Forum’s first report two years ago and the many... [read more]

Bending the curve

November 23, 2010 by Gernot Wagner
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Cutting emissions is about creating opportunities for new, clean energy sources, not about crashing economies. The Great Recession saw a crash with the most severe consequences for employment and other measures of economic output since the Great Depression. Emissions responded in kind. Pierre Friedlingstein and a slew of co-authors... [read more]

Economic Doctrines and Climate Change

October 29, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Last week, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released an important new report that explores the ideological origins of different policy responses to climate change, and helps clarify why there has been a lack of consensus (and lack of progress), on tackling climate change or nearly two decades. The report, "... [read more]

Europe’s Energy Position – Markets and Supply

May 17, 2010 by PaulB
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The European Union has issued a publication entitled "Europe’s Energy Position – Markets & Supply", which provides an overview of the energy position of the EU with a close look at oil, gas, electricity market developments over the past two years, with an emphasis on the promotion of renewable energy source production capabilities.... [read more]

Doc alert: Joint Operating Environment 2010

April 16, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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The Joint Operating Environment 2010 report from the US Joint Forces Command has been getting a lot of attention from many of the climate change and peak oil blogs the last couple of days, and with good reason. It discusses, from a US security perspective, many issues and trends, including globalization, demographics, energy, food, and... [read more]

Technology is Magic

February 8, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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I am freshly arrived back on the U.S. mainland, with a couple of stops before I head back to Hawaii. I have been reading about energy developments during my travels, and finally wrote something on the flight from Europe yesterday. What has prompted me to write was a report that was recently issued by The President's Biofuels Interagency... [read more]

Infonugget: Smart grid framework

January 20, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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If you divide how important some energy technology is to the future of mainstreamers by how much they know about it–call it the Invisibility Index–you’d be hard-pressed to come up with something that scores higher than changes to the electricity grid. Luckily, there are plenty of people thinking and talking about it, and even better,... [read more]

Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant - Overview

November 21, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States - New Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Institute report."Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States," a major new report released today by the... [read more]

Waste Not, Watt Not: Energy efficiency cuts pollution while lowering energy bills — that’s why it’s a core strategy of the climate and clean energy bill

September 8, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The House climate and clean energy bill has made energy efficiency a centerpiece (see “The triumph of energy efficiency: Waxman-Markey could save $3,900 per household and create 650,000 jobs by 2030“).  It would generate some $500 billion through 2025 in efficiency investments alone (see “The only way to win the clean energy race... [read more]