Tag Archives: Solar

The Price of the Green Shift

Posted on October 5, 2021 by climatechangefork

I started this series of blogs about energy companies and their shift toward greener power sources with a citation from an earlier blog (July 17, 2013), quoting then-CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, who opined, “What good is it to save … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, Chevron, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Exxon, Fossil Fuels, Gas, green, Natural Gas, Oil, power plant, Renewable, Rex Tillerson, Shell, shortage, Solar, subsidize, UK, utilities, Wind, Wyoming | 2 Comments

External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.

Posted on September 21, 2021 by climatechangefork

I posted my first blog here on Earth Day, April 22, 2012. I’m now approaching 500 (498) blog posts. Almost all of them, directly or indirectly, have focused on climate change and the energy transition that we are necessarily going … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability | Tagged BP, Chevron, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate change denier, commitment, denier, Drought, Energy, energy transition, Extreme Weather, Exxon, fire, Flood, fossil fuel, Gas, Global Warming, green, Heartland Institute, Hurricane, IPCC, motivation, Netherlands, Norway, Oil, renewables, Shell, Solar, US | 1 Comment

Infrastructure Timing

Posted on August 10, 2021 by climatechangefork

They did it! Today, after a long slog of debate, the US Senate has finally passed a bipartisan version of the infrastructure bill that came out of the American Jobs Plan the Biden administration proposed in April. For more information … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Energy | Tagged Adaptation, Biden, bill, bipartisan, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, commercial, competiiton, consumption, Cost, electric car, Electricity, Energy, energy cost, energy services, energy transition, fossil fuel, house, industrial, Infrastructure, input, manufacturing, mining, Mitigation, output, Physics, r&d, refining, residential, senate, Solar, Sputnik, transportation, US, utilities, Wind | Leave a comment

The IEA, Heat, and Net Zero

Posted on June 29, 2021 by climatechangefork

Summer has officially started. Over the last week or so, I’ve been keeping track of which large US cities have experienced temperatures above 100oF, according to the New York Times weather report (see August 18, 2020 blog for descriptions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Biofuel, Brazil, Carbon, carbon emissions, carbon zero, China, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, decarbonization, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IEA, India, Indonesia, Mitigation, OECD, Solar, South Africa, Sustainability, Utility, Wind | Leave a comment

Utilities: Calculating our Carbon Footprints

Posted on June 1, 2021 by climatechangefork

I have used Table 1 in the last few blogs (starting on May 11th) to show the carbon intensities for the various sources of energy that we use in large buildings (greater than 25,000ft2) in NYC. From there, I’ve shown … Continue reading →

Posted in Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged carbon efficiency, carbon emissions, Carbon Footprint, carbon intensity, CO2, Coal, electric car, Electricity, electricity intensity, Emissions, Energy, energy source, EPA, fuel, Future, Natural Gas, Nuclear, NYC, Oil, scope, Solar, Wind | 1 Comment

The American Jobs Plan & Power Generation by Source

Posted on April 13, 2021 by climatechangefork

Last week, when I discussed the new $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan,” I listed the costs of items that directly address climate change mitigation. The second most expensive item was the $174 billion program for electric vehicle incentive. A few … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Electric Cars, Sustainability, US | Tagged Adaptation, American jobs plan, Biden, carbon emissions, carbon zero, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, coronavirus, economic, Economy, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, fossil fuel, fuel, Gas, Global Warming, IEA, Infrastructure, low carbon, Methane, Mitigation, NOAA, Nuclear, Oil, Power, power plant, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, temperature rise, Wind | 3 Comments

Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?

Posted on March 24, 2021 by climatechangefork

In 2012, I was with Vinit Parmar, filming the energy transition in the Sundarbans region in India as it moved from traditional hunter-gatherer life to an electrified society (Quest for Energy – 2012, see the April 29, 2014 blog). In … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, community, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, India, learning, Mitigation, NY, Power, Renewable, Research, Solar, Sundarbans, Teaching, Technology, university | 3 Comments

Green Taxonomy

Posted on March 16, 2021 by climatechangefork

On December 27, 2016, I posted a blog, “Impact Assessment: Self-Inflicted Genocide and the Toronto Principle.” I cited an Op-Ed from Benjamin A. Franta: Last December, a committee at the University of Toronto released a report on the issue of divestment, drawing … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electric Cars, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged bonds, Carbon, classify, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, COP21, coronavirus, covid, decarbonization, electric car, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Global Warming, green, IEA, Investment, IPCC, Paris, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Solar, taxonomy, Toronto | 3 Comments

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Posted on February 23, 2021 by climatechangefork

I have written often about resilience and its importance in our energy transition. You can put the word into the search box and see a plethora of posts. Most of them focus on California and Australia, where climate change has … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Extreme Weather, Sustainability, US, Water | Tagged Adaptation, arctic melt, Australia, California, Climate Change, Coal, Don Quijote, Electricity, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, freeze, Gas, Global Warming, nuclear power, Renewable, renewable energy, resilience, Solar, storm, Texas, Water, Wind, windmill, winter, winterize | 2 Comments

Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”

Posted on September 15, 2020 by climatechangefork

I’m still in lockdown but I have the resources to communicate with the world. I have the opportunity to expose myself to different kinds of information while avoiding exposure to the pandemic. The piece below came from Forbes magazine, which, … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged California, cherry picking global energy transition, choice, Climate Change, Coal, consequence, disease, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, Environment, environmental, fire, fire storm, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuels, Future, Gas, Germany, Global Warming, goals, Hydroelectric, hydroelectricity, individual bias, Insurance, Kenya, mitigating, Mitigation, Oil, Oregon, paradigm, phase-out, Policy, probability, prospect theory, Renewable, renewables, Solar, Sustainability, Sustainable, UN, unlivable, Washington, wild fire, wildfire, Wind, World Bank | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: Solar

The Price of the Green Shift

External Pressures on Oil Companies May Prompt Change. We’ll See.

Infrastructure Timing

The IEA, Heat, and Net Zero

Utilities: Calculating our Carbon Footprints

The American Jobs Plan & Power Generation by Source

Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?

Green Taxonomy

Energy Resilience: Winter in Texas

Two Contradictory Versions of “Too Expensive”

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