posts tagged as California
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September 2015
Wind capacity factors can vary greatly across regions because the output from wind turbines are dependent on the wind resources in the...
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August 2015
Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is promoting the Clean Power Plan as a “fair” and “flexible” program...
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July 2015
Electric utilities have turned to natural gas for electricity generation because of its low prices and because of onerous regulations affecting coal...
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January 2015
In a recent post at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, climate scientist (and mentor to Al Gore) James Hansen was characteristically frank about...
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January 2015
The Obama Administration is making energy efficiency a major instrument in its climate/global warming policy. For example, half of the reductions that...
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October 2014
Intermittent renewable generating technologies (i.e. wind and solar) are causing havoc with electric grid operations because these technologies cannot be controlled by...