By Mike Mulvihill While Super Bowl fanfare dominated last week’s news, the Interior Department announced the conclusion of a study that sets the stage for the equivalent of a Bowl Championship Series for offshore wind development. The environmental study found there would be “no significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts” from offshore development. This brings the [...]
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“All In” for All of the Above?
January 31, 2012 – 10:07 am
by Mike Mulvihill As the presidential election season ramps into a full-tilt boogie, energy will be a topic perking toward the top of the national discussion. While the GOP candidates beat up on one another, the incumbent come this November is beating the energy drum. While perusing Facebook, I was greeted by an online banner [...]
Rome Burns While Politicians Fiddle
December 13, 2011 – 7:00 am
by Mike Mulvihill Back in November, my Buzz Bin post warned that as campaigning for the next presidential election heats up, green energy would become a football tossed back and forth for political gain with little concern for whether these actions foster or retard the creation of needed alternative energy generation and a foundation for [...]
Renewable Energy: Santa or Scrooge?
December 6, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Mike Mulvihill If you asked Santa for more renewable energy in the U.S. portfolio this Christmas, you may hope that Scrooge intercedes with your request. Otherwise, your well-intended wish will bring with it a substantial increase in your utility bill for at least the next 10 years. Perhaps the best example of this is [...]
What Bill Gates Knows That Congress Doesn’t
November 29, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Mike Mulvihill Whatever your opinion of Bill Gates and Microsoft, you have to admit he is one smart dude. So when Gates makes a plea in a guest editorial in Science magazine for more energy research & development by the U.S. government, perhaps it is worth taking note. In the editorial, Gates says the [...]
Solar is Drowning in Political Backwash
November 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm
By Mike Mulvihill An article in the NY Times this weekend, A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search, has generated a number of posts in support and in opposition of the article and solar subsidies. The article points out that several investor-owned utilities and large projects capable of shopping for private capital, are [...]
Clean, Green and Bankrupt
November 1, 2011 – 10:53 am
by Mike Mulvihill As a House Subcommittee probe into the collapse of Solyndra, Inc. widens (Solyndra received a $535 million federal loan guarantee), a second clean energy company with a $43 million Department of Energy loan guarantee has filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power, which also received a $26 million in stimulus grant from DOE, was [...]
China Clean Air Champion…What?
October 4, 2011 – 8:11 am
By Mike Mulvihill In Monday’s The Harvard Crimson two staff writers posited an interesting macroeconomic/green tech play that could transform China – and the U.S. – through a modern day space race for green technology supremacy. (A role no nation seems too invested in pursuing at this juncture.) The article Green Dragon: China’s $200 Billion [...]
Clean, Green… Army?
September 27, 2011 – 7:25 am
By Mike Mulvihill “We’ve got the land and the demand.” That’s the catchphrase of the Army’s new Energy Initiatives Office, which was created to attract $7 billion in private investment to build 20 “utility-scale” renewable energy installations on Army bases. These plants will generate a mix of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power with the [...]
Hazy World Energy Future
September 20, 2011 – 9:07 am
by Mike Mulvihill In a report released yesterday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast that China and India will drive up worldwide energy consumption by as much as 53 percent by 2035 with a corresponding increase in carbon dioxide emissions of 43 percent. The EIA 2011 International Energy Outlook predicts energy from renewable and alternative [...]
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