In a thinly-veiled swipe at renewable energy resources, Energy Secretary Rick Perry is reportedly ordering a study to determine whether the proliferation of renewables is threatening grid reliability by causing baseload (i.e., coal) resources to retire prematurely. The target of the…

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Texas’s electricity grid operator, reported that wind resources on February 18 hit a record peak output of 14,023 MW at 9:20 PM, which was enough to serve just under 40% of the state’s load at…

Photo by Kim Hansen, CC BY 2.0. Plans have been finalized to begin construction on what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Northern England. With 1.2 gigawatts of capacity produced by 174 turbines, each 623 feet…

https://youtu.be/1EKdIveFeXM Moody’s reported this week that the global issuance of green bonds in 2016 could surpass $50 billion “by a significant margin.” Merely meeting the $50 billion threshold would mark a nearly 20% increase over the $42.5 billion issued 2015, which…

At the United Nations-hosted Investor Summit on Climate Risk this week Mike Bloomberg, Al Gore, and others urged businesses and philanthropists to invest more in renewable energy resources. The conference, organized by the nonprofit sustainable advocacy organization Ceres, is designed…

The Washington Post reports today (wpo.st/SXtv0 ) about legislation to be proposed in Maryland in early 2016 to require that 25% of the state’s energy be provided by renewable resources by 2020. This is a significant improvement upon the existing requirement that 20%…