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US govt: Climate change threatens energy infrastructure
Infrastructure that Americans rely on to heat their homes and power their lights are all becoming more exposed to failure in a changing climate.
Bobby Magill

Mar 11, 2014

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Graph of the Day: Australia’s 5 million “solar heroes”
Home owners using solar power are helping reduce the wholesale cost of electricity, as well as lessening peak demand.
Sam Parkinson

Mar 10, 2014

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Net-metering does not equate to being “self-reliant”
Net-metering vs feed-in-tariffs? If you want to be truly self-reliant, you have to go off-grid.
Craig Morris

Mar 10, 2014

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How Europe could get 16 percent of its road fuel from garbage by 2030
A new report from the European biofuel industry suggests 16% of Europe’s road fuel could come from biofuels produced using waste from various sources.
Jeff Spross

Mar 5, 2014

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Mexico building Latin America’s largest solar farm
Mexican solar market expected to quadruple by end 2014, boosted by construction of the biggest PV plants in Latin America, Aura Solar I.
Ari Phillips

Feb 27, 2014

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GE puts $1.4bn into natural-gas-fired distributed power
General Electric announces $1.4 billion, four-year plan to push into a new natural gas frontier: distributed power.
Jeff St John

Feb 27, 2014

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Which country has more solar capacity than rest of world combined?
For a little perspective let’s compare the global installed capacity of solar water heating (WH) and solar photovoltaics (PV).
Lindsay Wilson

Feb 27, 2014

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Commentary

How to save business billions, without cutting renewable jobs
It’s in Australia’s interests not to be left behind in the growth industries of the future – and those include renewable energy.
Suzanne Benn and Patrick Crittenden

Feb 26, 2014

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Running on clean energy: “Question of social and political will”
US has technology and logistical ability to convert to all-renewable energy sources by 2050—if it can manage to exercise necessary social and political will.
Sandy Dechert

Feb 26, 2014

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Wind turbines are much more durable than thought
New research reveals wind turbines can produce electricity for 25 years before needing an upgrade, that’s considerably longer than previously thought.
Jeff Spross

Feb 26, 2014

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If natural gas must be a bridge fuel, this might be a way to do it
A new power plant permitting deal in Massachusetts might be the way forward if natural gas is to be the bridging fuel to renewable energy.
Jeff Spross

Feb 24, 2014

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Australia’s lip service at G20; our fossil fuel subsidies to increase!
Australia has committed to higher growth as part of its G20 agenda. Perhaps it should address its previous commitment to cutting fossil fuel subsidies.
Nigel Morris

Feb 24, 2014

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