This new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) builds on an August 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) study of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), a comprehensive climate and energy bill passed in June 2009 by the U.S. House of Representatives. Continue reading
An economy-wide cap on global warming pollution and a strong federal renewable electricity standard should be central to our national energy policy. At the same time we need a workable federal process that increases the electricity grid’s reliability and efficiency and maximizes the integration of renewable resources within it.
From the manufacturing centers and corn and soybean fields to the major finance hubs and leading research universities, Midwest states have long served as an economic engine for the United States.
WASHINGTON (May 9, 2011): Renewable energy is likely to become the world’s dominant climate change solution by the middle of the century, according to a new study by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It has the potential to be more competitive than nuclear power, fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage and other low-carbon energy options across a majority of the scenarios analyzed for the report.
Most of the products we buy today have at some point been transported by a heavy-duty truck—a critical part of our freight-transportation system. But this reliable service comes at a price. Nearly all modern heavy-duty trucks run on petroleum-based diesel fuel, and as with other forms of fossil-fueled transportation their tailpipe emissions contribute to poor local air quality and rising global temperatures.
Over the past 10 to 15 years, enhancements in technology and computing power have truly revolutionized the wind development business. From prospecting the best sites to constructing wind farms, from mapping cadastral data to estimating the wind resource at specific proposed turbine locations, technology has improved our ability to efficiently select, develop, and ultimately construct utility-scale wind farms.
Renewable energy continued its global surge in 2010, accounting for about half of the 194 gigawatts of new installed capacity, according to the REN21 Renewables 2011 Global Status Report.
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