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January 25 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
24 Jan 2022 at 11:55pm
Headline News: “Climate Change Threatening Buried UK Treasures” ? Climate change is threatening to destroy treasures buried in the UK as the soils that protect them dry out. About 22,500 archaeological sites in UK may be in danger. The problem is that changing weather patterns are drying out some peatlands, the waterlogged soils that cover [...]
January 24 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
23 Jan 2022 at 11:19pm
Headline News: “Humans Do A Poor Job Of Calculating Risk. That’s Terrible For The Climate Crisis” ? Humans do a poor job of evaluating climate risk and the cost of reducing it. Over the past five years, extreme weather disasters have cost the US more than $750 billion. The Build Back Better package would cost [...]
Just In! (from NY-GEO)
by Michelle Harrison
23 Jan 2022 at 3:41am
Just In! is NY-GEO?s weekly news feed for members. NY-GEO?s calendar-year memberships are open to everyone and available for as little as $35 (10% discount till January 15th!). See more information on memberships here. Click here to see some of the work a NY-GEO membership supports. We also feature three of the top news [...]
January 23 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
22 Jan 2022 at 9:39pm
Headline News: “How Coronavirus Lockdowns May Have Led To Less Lightning In 2020” ? Global lightning activity decreased nearly 8% in 2020 amid lockdowns triggered by the pandemic. Scientists who worked on the study discovered a potential cause for this drop in lightning activity: a decrease in atmospheric aerosols, tiny particles of air pollution. [CNN] [...]
January 22 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
21 Jan 2022 at 11:42pm
Headline News: “Natural Gas Becomes Important Battleground In Transition From Fossil Fuels ” ? Last year saw natural gas bans as cities lead the way in phasing out gas from homes and buildings. Ithaca, NY became the first city to go further and lay out an ambitious policy to transition all buildings to electric by [...]
January 21 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
20 Jan 2022 at 11:00pm
Headline News: “US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Expected To Increase In 2022 And 2023” ? In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration forecast that US energy-related CO? emissions will increase in 2022 and 2023 but remain below 2019 levels. These emissions had decreased 11% in 2020 due to Covid-19. [CleanTechnica]
January 20 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
19 Jan 2022 at 10:54pm
Headline News: “MidAmerican Unveils 2.1-GW Iowa Clean Power Project” ? MidAmerican Energy has plans for a $4 billion renewable energy project in Iowa, including wind and solar generation. In a filing with the Iowa Utilities Board, MidAmerican?s proposed project would add 2,042 MW of wind generation and 50 MW of solar generation, to be completed [...]
Attention Solar Businesses: Participate in G.E.T.?s Solar Feature for the mid...
by Michelle Harrison
19 Jan 2022 at 3:26pm
We hope all is well with you, and that you installed a ton of solar this year. We are planning to run a center-spread feature in the upcoming issue of Green Energy Times showcasing solar companies who service our region. Information for the article will be collected from an interactive questionnaire. In order to participate, [...]
Januar 19 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
19 Jan 2022 at 12:24am
Headline News: “The Environmental Case For Buying A Coal Mine” ? A growing number of campaigners, economists, and legal scholars now believe that there is an environmental case for getting involved in the fossil fuel market by buying up coal mines and acquiring drilling rights, in order to prevent the fossil fuel from being extracted, [...]
Energy accelerator DeltaClimeVT seeks entrepreneurs focused on increasing ado...
by Michelle Harrison
18 Jan 2022 at 2:47am
The DeltaClimeVT climate economy business accelerator is seeking innovative, early-stage, energy companies focused on increasing adoption of clean energy, smart building and electric vehicle technologies that enable accelerated integration of distributed energy resources without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades. Entrepreneurs will work directly with Vermont utilities to contribute to Vermont?s 90/50 and Burlington?s Net [...]
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