Climate Change Defense Goalposts Move
New climate change science from the past year has made previous greenhouse gas reduction goals obsolete, says Joe Romm at Climate Progress.
Germany Weighs EV Incentives
As Fuse noted, Germany hopes to boost its anemic electric vehicle (EV) sales with incentives in line with the US and some other EU countries. Prime Minister Merkel wants a million EVs on the road by 2020, but only 30,000 Continue reading Germany Weighs EV Incentives
Solar PV Distributed Generation Policy
The NC Clean Energy Technology Center’s overview of solar policy by state, published in April, includes this point-in-time chart: Current Net Metering and Distributed Generation Compensation Policies by State, Q1 2016
Solar Installations vs. Prices, 2009 to 2015
To celebrate the milestone of a million installed solar PV installations in the US, SEIA published a fact book about solar, including this chart showing how falling prices helped promote installations.
Carbon Tax or Cap & Trade?
Grist’s recent article on competing proposals for dealing with fossil fuel pollution in Washington state contained this excellent WRI map of similar efforts worldwide.
Infographic: Utilities and Low Carbon
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change has published Investor Expectations of Electric Utilities Companies – Looking down the line at carbon asset risk, which includes this graphic showing how the switch to low carbon will affect utilities.
Infographic: How Solar Panels Work
SaveOnEnergy created an excellent infographic detailing how solar panels work. This is useful in cases where, as author Arthur C. Clarke suggested, a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.