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Climate Change Defense Goalposts Move

Posted on May 11, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

New climate change science from the past year has made previous greenhouse gas reduction goals obsolete, says Joe Romm at Climate Progress.

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Germany Weighs EV Incentives

Posted on May 9, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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→

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Solar PV Distributed Generation Policy

Posted on May 9, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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

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Solar Installations vs. Prices, 2009 to 2015

Posted on May 4, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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.

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Carbon Tax or Cap & Trade?

Posted on May 1, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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. 

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Infographic: Utilities and Low Carbon

Posted on April 29, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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.  

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Infographic: How Solar Panels Work

Posted on April 2, 2016 by James Belcher — No Comments ↓

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.

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