Posts Tagged ‘distributed generation’

On Day One: Distributed Generation and the Power Grid

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[Climate Change Ideas for On Day One-part II]

Today begins a week-long panel event I am participating in sponsored by grist.org and UN Dispatch. One new environmentally-themed idea will be covered each day with the panelists weighing-in with their thoughts to kick things off. Readers are then invited to engage and discuss the topic, with the goal being to help shape the environmental agenda of [...]

40,000 Solar Jobs in a Cloudy Country: Germany’s Solar Subsidies Debated

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A May 16 article in the New York Times focused on the debate in Germany regarding whether generous subsidies for solar energy should be continued. Buried in the story was the remarkable fact that Germany has created 40,000 jobs in formerly blighted industrial areas by “turbo-charging” the growth of the solar industry there. Imagine if our government took a leadership role in jump-starting solar production in areas like [...]

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