Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Post Carbon Institute Fellows Richard Heinberg and David Fridley gave a joint presentation to the Security & Sustainability Forum—to share the key findings and takeaways that emerged from the analysis they conducted to co-author Our Renewable Future.
What if we didn’t have to work around the grid we have today, with all of its inertia and incumbents and inflexibility?
The impact of the Tooth Fairy Syndrome is all the more felt in the main media and among politicians – with the end result that so many lay people (and many experts) end up highly confused about what to think and do about energy matters.
We…try to separate fact from falsehoods in this wide-ranging interview. It might even change your mind about a few things.
Might it be that the ongoing implosion of fossil fuel industries will happen much faster than the necessarily explosive transition to solutions?
Is conventional, free-market economic theory really up to the task of energy transition and combating climate change?
In early May of this year, Portugal ran on renewable electricity alone for four consecutive days.
The list of main setbacks for the global energy transition in June includes a potentially big one: Brexit.
Utilities face a host of rapid changes in a what used to be a staid business: new business models, changing supply and demand forecasts, new distributed architectures, new types of resources, new participants in the power grid that they don’t control…yet they still must maintain a highly reliable power grid that operates within fairly narrow parameters.
Scale and complexity issues are becoming a significant impediment to maintaining wind and solar growth rates.
The last of the big-time U.S. coal companies has gone bankrupt, and in the hills of Appalachia, they’re looking for their next move.
In percentage terms, Denmark is the world leader in energy transition, as well as the king of wind power.
