Amory B Lovins, Author at Renew Economy

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Australia can learn from the American experience with nuclear power
Nuclear power has no business case or operational need in Australia’s energy future. No one who understands energy markets would claim otherwise.
Amory B Lovins

May 21, 2024

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Policy & Planning

Misrepresenting German renewables: NYT does climate denial 101
New NYT columnist Bret Stephens is in good company in misunderstanding German energy policy and outcomes. Here’s where he goes wrong.
Amory B Lovins

May 12, 2017

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What if Congress threw a Keystone XL party and nobody came?
Just as the Keystone XL pipeline battle comes to a political head, its business rationale may have vanished.
Amory B Lovins

Jan 22, 2015

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Sowing confusion about renewable energy
Readers of The Economist may have been surprised for good reason to read that solar and wind are “the most expensive way of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Amory B Lovins

Aug 8, 2014

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Energy policies turned Fukushima into a loss for Japan and a win for Germany
Japan has nine times Germany’s renewable energy resources, but produces nine times less electricity from renewables. That’s because Japan’s government allows utility monopolies to protect their profits by blocking competitors.
Amory B Lovins

Jul 9, 2014

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Renewables disrupting utilities? It’s a good thing
Rather than lament the fall of traditional utilities, we should encourage progressive utilities and disruptive upstarts to shape a new electricity system.
Amory B Lovins

Feb 10, 2014

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Separating fact from fiction in Germany’s renewables revolution
Germany’s Energiewende is a bold and complex experiment. Its inevitable imperfections get recognition and correction, but Germany could surprise the world by transforming even faster.
Amory B Lovins

Aug 19, 2013

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Debunking the renewables disinformation campaign
The sad truth is that the media debate on clean and renewable energy is unbalanced, and seldom by accident.
Amory B Lovins

Aug 2, 2013

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Renewable Germany: The very model of a new energy order
Germany’s energy turnaround offers proof that an industrialised, politically pluralistic market economy can run well on efficiency and renewables.
Amory B Lovins

Apr 18, 2013

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