The cost of transitioning the United States to clean energy may be offset or surpassed by the savings of not having to buy fossil fuels, according to a scholar of energy management systems.
That calculation does not include the savings from avoided…
Which comes first: the electric vehicle or the charging station? That question has perplexed some experts and officials tasked with nurturing the electrification of transportation in American cities.
Some have a clear view:
"If you can’t imagine…
The world now has 57 carbon-pricing programs covering about 20 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions, but they won't be as effective as they could be, experts said, until more of the world participates.
That's because covered industries worry about…
The falling price of renewable energy has been dominating the headlines, but more dramatic change is happening behind the scenes, where battery storage is disrupting the way utilities provide power.
The change is driven not just by cheap renewables…
Federal inaction on climate change will will lead to hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, by the federal government's own estimates. But there are less obvious costs Americans face because we lack a stable climate policy.
"We’ve talked a lot…
NET Power is developing multiple zero-carbon natural-gas power plants around the world, an executive revealed Monday, at the same cost or cheaper than conventional, polluting power plants.
Adam Goff, a principal at NET Power's parent company, 8…
The share of electricity supplied by wind and solar jumped from 1 percent to 8 percent in the U.S. over a decade without causing reliability issues, according to a recent report to members of Congress.
There have also been occasions when renewables…
Renewables will dominate energy markets in the United States because of their economics, even without the support of policy, some analysts agree.
The low price of renewables has driven the news this week not only of LA's record-breaking solar+storage…
Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.
Later this month the LA…
People often speak of climate change and biodiversity loss as separate disasters, even competing ones. The esteemed environmental journalist John Vidal recently detailed biodiversity loss in Huffington Post under a headline that called it "a crisis…
