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Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say
OLIVER MILMAN / THE GUARDIAN – The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 years, with potentially disastrous consequences as global demand for food soars,...
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Report: Cheap natural gas leads to more plants and pollution
CAIN BURDEAU / AP / NJ HERALD – The nation’s boom in cheap natural gas — often viewed as a clean energy source — is spawning a wave of petrochemical plants that, if built, will emit massive amounts of...
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Wind and solar are crushing fossil fuels
TOM RANDALL / BLOOMBERG – Wind and solar have grown seemingly unstoppable. While two years of crashing prices for oil, natural gas, and coal triggered dramatic downsizing in those industries,...
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America now has 27.2 gigawatts of solar energy: What does that mean?
DAVID J. UNGER / INSIDECLIMATE NEWS – One million solar power installations now dot America’s rooftops and landscape, an achievement being hailed as a milestone by advocates of solar energy. There were...
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As nuclear power plants close, states need to bet big on energy storage
ERIC DANIEL FOURNIER and ALEX RICKLEFS / THE CONVERSATION – Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) recently started the process of shutting down the Diablo Canyon generation facility, the last active...
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Microgrids: The future of smarter grid design and energy stability
KYLE DOWNEY / LAW STREET – The infrastructure that moves energy throughout the United States is called the macrogrid, a colossal system that provides power from 7,200 power plants to 120 million homes...
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Our energy grid Is incredibly vulnerable
ROB VERCHICK / SLATE – When I dream about Hurricane Katrina (and I still do), it always starts with the refrigerators. Kenmore, GE, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, Amana. Hundreds of thousands of these...
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Wind and solar aren’t crawling into a hole just yet
MARK DRAJEM and ARI NATTER / BLOOMBERG – Renewable energy is not dead yet. An auction for the rights to build a wind farm offshore of Jones Beach, New York earned a staggering $42.5 million bid....
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Solar could beat coal to become the cheapest power on Earth
JESSICA SHANKLEMAN and CHRIS MARTIN / BLOOMBERG – Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it’s likely to be the lowest-cost option almost everywhere. In...
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The cheap energy revolution is here, and coal won’t cut it
TOM RANDALL / BLOOMBERG – Wind and solar are about to become unstoppable, natural gas and oil production are approaching their peak, and electric cars and batteries for the grid are waiting to take...
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Renewable record: Wind and solar supplied 10 percent of US electricity in March
JULIAN SPECTOR / GREENTECH MEDIA – The saying about March — “in like a lion, out like a lamb” — plays extremely well for renewable generation. Wind and solar together crossed the 10 percent mark of...
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Wind and solar power are saving Americans an astounding amount of money
DAVID ROBERTS / VOX – Wind and solar power are subsidized by just about every major country in the world, either directly or indirectly through tax breaks, mandates, and regulations. The main rationale...
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Clean energy is approaching a tipping point
REED LANDBERG / BLOOMBERG – The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market. That’s the...
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Rebooting New Jersey offshore wind: What it will take
MARK DEL FRANCO / NORTH AMERICAN WINDPOWER – New Jersey was an early entrant among states to offshore wind. As early as 2005, the state was working to develop it. Soon after, New Jersey also began...
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