Clean technology includes the renewable energy (wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, biofuels), information technology, storage technologies, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. We focus this collection on renewable energy and development of the Smart Grid.
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Will Falling Oil Prices Kill Wind and Solar Power? with Dr. Steven Chu |
Will Falling Oil Prices Kill Wind and Solar Power? Dr. Steven Chu who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy from January 21, 2009, to April 22, 2013. During your time at the Department of Energy the deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. doubled. Is the fall in fossil-fuel prices killing the business case for renewables?
The decline in fossil-fuel prices does have some effect, but remember that 78 percent of the economies of the U.S. have state-mandated renewable portfolio standards. They require that a specified fraction of electricity must come from renewable energy. For example, in California the goal is 33 percent renewable energy by 2020. Right now renewable electricity is roughly 13 percent of total electricity generated in the U.S. Half is hydropower and the other half is mostly wind energy, with some solar, biomass and geothermal. Renewable energy costs have come down significantly. Even if natural gas, which is the cheapest form of electricity generation today, stays at $4 per million Btus [British thermal units], wind without subsidy is almost as inexpensive. Electrical generation in the sunnier parts of the U.S. is also approaching equality with a new natural gas power plant. The cost of wind and solar is anticipated to decline for at least a decade or two. Perhaps in a decade, renewables will be competitive with any new form of energy in many parts of the U.S. Published on Mar 8, 2015 EarthSayer Dr. Steven Chu |
Amory Lovins and the Evolving Car Industry
Wind-powered energy security - Cabeolica, Cape Verde
Will Falling Oil Prices Kill Wind and Solar Power? with Dr. Steven Chu
Solar Power works for the Munduruku in Brazil
Clean Tech Open - Crossing the Chasm
Solar Power Industry and XsunX
Bonneville Environmental Foundation: Todd Reeve
The GridWise Alliance and the Smart Grid
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America by Christopher Jones,
Citizens Generate Their Own Power by Ursula Sladek
Squeezing into our Ecological footprint by Paul Hawken
Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - Global Energy Outlook: Energy Security
Solar Jobs Spotlight: Mike Barlow
Renewable Energy: Get Off Our Bottoms by Helen Caldicott
Carbon Capture and Sequestration by Scott Anderson
The Energy Revolution
What is Smart Grid by Scientific American
Smart Grid Dr. Woerlen 1 of 11
The Era of Mainstream Clean Energy: Solar Rising by Arno Harris
The UCSD Microgrid - Showing the Future of Electricity by RMI
Solar World in Oregon
Solar power is working for the Munduruku in Brazil
A Case for Integrating Solar Geoengineering into Climate Policy | David Keith | Talks at Google
What is the Advanced Energy Economy by Graham Richard
Advanced Energy by the AEE
Climate Change and Clean Energy
Sustainable Energy: Affordable Domestic Solar in Africa
Opportunities for Cleantech Start-ups by Laina Greene
The Potential of Solar in Growing Markets by Paolo Frankl
Local and Sustainable Biodiesel in Oregon
Low Carbon Economy and On Being Sustainable
The Grid of Tomorrow by 24 Hours of Reality
German's Renewable Energy Revolution by Christine Worlen
Mapping the Gap: The Road From Paris with Michael Leibreich
Energy (R)evolution is Happening by Tzeporah Berman