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The 2017 EIA Annual Energy Outlook – “5°C or 6°C?”
The 2017 Annual Energy Outlook, released in early January, provides a CO2 emissions forecast, which includes a base Reference Case along with side cases that…
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Finding the Middle Ground Between Coal and Climate Change
Huntley coal-fired power plant in Tonawanda, New York At some point, the country will need to find the middle ground between “The War on Coal”…
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Earth to China
I need you! My, thought to be, principal advocate and benefactor has just shot itself in the foot and I am likely to become collateral…
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Disingenuous – (and, not the least bit surprising)
SNL published an article entitled “As gas tops coal for carbon emissions, Sierra Club sees next climate fight”, based on an interview with Lena Moffitt. The…
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EIA 2040 Forecast
The Center for Strategic and International Studies published its International Energy Outlook 2016 on May 11, 2016. A reference to the www.eia.gov follows the tag line “Independent…
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“Mission Accomplished?”
That would depend on how the “mission” is defined…right? The Sierra Club published a Fact Sheet dated November 3, 2015, “Accelerating the U.S. Coal Phase…
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Renewable Energy System Integration Costs
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is an economic theory first authored by Garrett Hardin. It states that individuals acting independently and rationally according to their…
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Competition Under the 2015 EPA Clean Power Plan
Under the new Clean Power Plan, the EPA calculates state goals based on the Best System of Emission Reduction (BSER), and has now established separate…
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The CO2 Budget – Let’s Talk Numbers
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Annual Review – AR5 with a graphic that may help frame the Climate Change issue.…
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Competitive Positioning – Pending New EPA Standards
There is ample information on various DOE websites defining cost and performance baselines for the various types of power plant options currently in today’s available…