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The penetration of renewable energy into the electricity supply mix has been much in the news recently. During the first quarter, Portugal generated three-quarters of its electricity with renewable energy. Meanwhile, in Germany, one-fifth of all electricity was generated with renewabl...
April 8, 2013 Paul Gipe Opportunities Forsaken: The Iraq War and Renewable Energy For the Amount Spent on the Iraq War the US Could be Generating 40% to 60% of its Electricity with Renewable Energy The US is noting a somber milestone this year: a decade of death and destruction follow...
April 2, 2013 Paul Gipe 100 Percent Renewable Vision Building Trend Toward New Targets 100% Renewable Electricity—and Higher Increasingly countries and regions are leapfrogging timid renewable targets and moving toward full 100% integration of renewables into electricity supply. Some ...
March 17, 2013 Paul Gipe 2012 German Nuclear & Gas-Fired Generation Falls Further While Renewables Grow Apparently my article last October documenting the growth of renewables in Germany while nuclear generation continues to decline got under the skin of pro-nuclear bloggers. So at th...
Jordan Adopts Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs--and Shelves Nuclear Country Prepares for Arab Renewable Energy Congress 16-18 December Move Increases Growing Gap Between FITs and RPS Policy December 11, 2012 By Paul Gipe While North American regulators continue debating the merits of ...
March 12, 2013 Paul Gipe Feed-in Tariff Breakthrough in Iowa? Proposal Four Times Comparable Size of Los Angeles DWP’s Solar FIT Comparable to Gainesville, Florida’s Annual Per Capita Rate Payment for Wind to be Based on Utility’s Rate of Return Could the conservative heartland sate o...
French Reactor Cost Rises Dramatically--Calls into Question the Future of Nuclear Wind Energy is Now Cheaper in France than New Nuclear December 4, 2012 By Paul Gipe Liberation reports that for the second time in a little more than a year the cost of a new reactor under construction a...
German use of coal to generate electricity has declined steadily from 1990 to 2011, according to readily available statistics on the German electricity system. The percentage of coal-fired electricity in German electricity generation has fallen from 56.7% in 1990 to 43.5% last year--a...
