Fossils Devote 0.8% of Investment to Climate Solutions, New IEA Figures Show
By The Energy Mix Lydia Jacobs/Public Domain Pictures The oil and gas industry only devoted 0.8% of its capital investment in 2019 to clean energy, a category that combined renewable energy with dollars thrown at more fanciful attempts at carbon capture and storage, according to figures in an International Energy Agency (IEA) report that largely…
Ex-Alberta Liberal Leader Declares Tax Revolt Over Deadbeat Fossils’ $173M Debt to Rural Municipalities
By The Energy Mix The Interior/Wikimedia Commons A former opposition politician in Alberta is calling for a tax revolt after Premier Jason Kenney sided with deadbeat fossils against the rural municipalities they’re depriving of C$173 million in local tax revenue.Ex-provincial Liberal leader David Swann declared Wednesday that he won’t pay his own property taxes until…
Nottingham Delivers Home Comfort, Rooftop Solar in Drive to Be UK’s First Carbon-Neutral City
By The Energy Mix MinkS / PixabayNottingham, England is setting out to transform housing, transportation, energy use, and waste management in a bid to become the country’s first carbon-neutral city by 2028, a full 22 years before the UK hopes to hit the same target.The draft plan was published last week and went out for…
China’s Next Five Year Energy Plan Will Shape the Global Energy Future
By Brian Wang China is projected to reduce the proportion of coal in its energy mix to below 58% by 2020. There are proposals to set a target of coal usage at 55% of China’s energy mix by 2030 for the 14th five year plan covering 2021-2025.China expects greenhouse gas emissions to peak around 2025-2030.China…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposes radical reshaping of siting process for renewable projects #NY
By National Wind Watch In his annual budget address on Jan. 21, 2020, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo proposed a complete overhaul to New York’s siting of renewable energy projects. Noting that siting a project under the current Article 10 process takes 5-10 years to begin construction, the governor found that the current process…
The challenge of sources – energy matrix (Brazil)
By Rafael Herzberg The challenge of sources – energy matrix (Brazil)Each client (residential, business or institutional) contracts the energy source they want. The choice depends, of course, on the price, conditions and the perception of the associated image, especially with respect to sustainability.Thus, it is up to the independent system operator to dispatch the power…
German Nuclear Phase Out Boosted Emissions by 5% and Caused Over 10,000 Deaths
By Brian Wang Carnegie Mellon University, Berkeley and other researchers used hourly data on power plant operations and a novel machine learning framework to estimate how German electrical plants would have operated differently if the nuclear phase-out had not occurred.They found that the lost nuclear electricity production due to the phase-out was replaced primarily by…
The Decade Ahead: Energy, Transportation, and Climate Action
By Jacquie Ashmore Some decades make their mark more than others. As we cross the threshold of the 2020s, there’s no doubt this decade will be a game-changer for our climate as the stakes grow catastrophically higher with each passing year.If global warming is the ultimate disrupter, how will it fundamentally change our power and…
Climate Politics Capitol Light (41)
By Joel Stronberg Climate, Politics/Capitol Light©, is a service of The JBS Group and Civil Notion January 25, 2020The Trump administration has gone to great pains to purge Obama-era science advisers from federal advisory boards and replace them with their own. Trump’s scientists seem to have the integrity many of his administrative appointees, e.g., EPA…
Updated Carbon Offsets
By John Benson This is a brief post to let readers know that I just updated “Carbon Offsets”, which was originally posted last April. This was a minor updated.I will reference this paper in the paper that I plan to post week after next, and its content is a major portion of this paper. Thus…