Articles
Renewable energy articles from the PES renewable energy magazine and website.
Planning an ecologically-sound future..
Wind power, one of the fastest-growing sources of energy around the world, is popular, not least because of its obvious abundance and because it provides many communities with a clean, local source of electricity, as opposed to imported fossil fuels. In the US – which recently passed Germany to become the country producing the most wind power – the Department of Energy recently estimated that wind power could account for 20 per cent of the nation’s electricity supply by 2030.
Race is on to complete first US..
The battle lines are drawn for supremacy in the developing US offshore wind-generation business as various states vie to be the first to achieve that crucial milestone – going online. So what stage are we currently at in this all-important race? Jennifer Zajac of SNL Energy is your guide to the current movers and shakers … After years of encountering NIMBO, (Not in My Beautiful Ocean), sentiment and regulatory uncertainty, the US may finally see its first offshore wind project begin operations within the next three years.
Department of Energy: a change..
The US Department of Energy has traditionally concentrated its efforts and support on the oil industry, but in recent months it has shifted its stance towards renewables, and specifically towards wind energy, investing massive amounts in research and development and manufacturing. PES looks at the motivation behind this change and examines what economic factors and changes in the world’s markets may lie behind the department’s move Not since a certain Saul of Tarsus experienced the original Damascene conversion have we seen anything like it.
Warning: BASE jumpers are coming..
In 1912 Frederick Law jumped from the Statue of Liberty in New York City and the modern-day sport of BASE-jumping was born. BASE, an acronym standing for the four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: Building, Antenna, Span and Earth, has been gaining in popularity recently and it was only ever a matter of time before its participants headed towards the wind turbines of the US … One has to see the inevitability of it all.
portfolios with potential
Jennifer Layke, Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute, and Rick Bunch, Managing Director, The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, discuss a number of options for overcoming the real and perceived challenges to wind power purchasing.
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