The Green Technocrat

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Earlier today a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that China will not accept a binding emissions reduction target when the UNFCCC holds its climate change conference in Copenhagen saying that this would stunt the country’s economic growth.
China is still a developing country and the present task confronting China is to develop its economy [...]

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I’ve been staring at a lot of GHG emissions data lately.  Is there anything more fun than pouring over table after table of UNFCCC national submissions, IEA reports and E.P.A. eGRID values?  OK, I guess I can think of a few things, but reviewing all this data has actually been pretty interesting.   One of the [...]

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In his Op-Ed this weekend in The New York Times Thomas Friedman gave a quick account of one country that has recognized the need to develop its environmental policy and energy policy hand in hand.  That country is Costa Rica, and for the last 20 years they have been doing just about everything right in [...]

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Yesterday China announced that they are working on a stimulus plan that they hope will spur development in their renewable energy industry.  While it isn’t exactly clear what the stimulus will entail, it seems likely that it will involve providing large subsidies to solar and wind energy producers.  The mere announcement of the stimulus caused [...]

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A few months back I wrote an article about how large scale solar and wind farms were starting to cause real headaches for the people whose job it is to ensure our nation’s electrical grid runs smoothly.  In November the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released a report saying that if we began putting [...]

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Yes! We finally are going to have a president that understands the direction America needs to move in to reduce our emissions and our dependence on fossil fuels.  Now if only he would give up his ideas on bailing out our automakers…

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What is it with east cost wind farm development these days?  I don’t think I have come across a single news story about east coast wind development in the last three months that didn’t involve some elements of corruption or intimidation.  Aren’t these mob tactics??
Take the case of Noble Environmental Power and First Wind, two [...]

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On Monday the E.P.A. announced the winners of its annual Green Power Leadership Awards.
The three categories the E.P.A. gives awards for are:

Green Power Partner of the Year: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves through their purchase, leadership, overall strategy, and impact on the green power market.
On-site Generation: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy [...]

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…they both seem like a good idea at the time, but you’re probably going to end up with syphilis.

So gas prices have been falling lately, and while people across the country have been rejoicing in their good fortune - You might not be able to afford your mortgage, and you might have lost your retirement [...]

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Relax everyone, the U.S. financial bailout plan was signed into law on Friday and the crisis is over.  Umm…definitely not.  However, there is some good news in all this mess.  The Incentive Tax Credit bill, an energy bill that has been languishing in congress for 2 years now, was tucked inside the $700 billion Economic [...]

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