• Energy

One Spooky Thing: Beware the Energy Vampires!

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• energy efficiency
• sustainability

We all have appliances that are using energy even when we’re not home. Read Clean Technica’s, A Room-by-Room Guide To Ousting The (Energy) Vampires Lurking In Your Home and get your spooky spirit on!

• Energy

Do PG&E’s Shutoffs Prevent Wildfires?

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• PG&E
• power outage
• utility

As you’ve read in our previous story, the ongoing PG&E power outages have posed not just an inconvenience but a safety risk to millions of customers across Northern California.

But is this worth it? According to MIT, occasionally switching off the electricity is an unsustainable plan for grappling with fire risks that will continue to rise in California and elsewhere as climate change accelerates.

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DOE Predicts CO2 Emissions AND Renewables Increase by 2050

• China
• CO2 emissions
• coal
• energy
• hydropower
• natural gas
• renewable energy
• Solar
• wind

The Energy Department put out its 2019 International Energy Outlook and two big headlines emerged — first that CO2 emissions worldwide will increase by 20% overall through 2050 because of emissions from developing countries, and second that renewable sources will provide half of all electricity globally by midcentury.

Why This Matters:  CO2 emissions from developed nations decrease by -.2% annually for the next 30 years, while in developing countries CO2 emissions are expected to grow 1% a year.  Countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are growing in key respects — they collectively have more population, a larger gross domestic product, more energy consumption, and higher energy-related CO2 emissions. 

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Ohio’s Billion Dollar Nuclear Bailout Comes at the Expense of Renewables

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• nuclear
• ohio
• renewable energy

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that “Ohio has become the next state to bail out its nuclear plants with fees on ratepayers’ electric bills. On Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine signed the controversial House Bill 6, which will add new fees to Ohioans’ electric bills for two nuclear plants owned by the bankrupt FirstEnergy Solutions in northern […]

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World’s Largest Commercial Ocean Current Energy Project to be Developed Off Florida

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• current
• energy
• nuclear plant
• ocean
• renewable energy

On May 29th, the limited liability company OceanBased Perpetual Energy signed a memorandum with the Florida Atlantic University’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) to secure their assistance in embarking on what is being called “the world’s largest commercial ocean current energy project.” Off Florida’s southeast coast, this project aims to install hundreds of megawatts of clean current generating equipment below the sea surface and linked to the US transmission system.

• Energy

CA May Go Dark On Windy Days

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• blackout
• energy
• generators
• PG&E
• resilience
• Solar
• wildfire

Bloomberg News reported yesterday that California’s largest utility, PG&E, has a plan to cut off power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season because it the main cause of wildfires last year was power lines that were knocked down by high winds and the sparks from the live wires. And most residents don’t know and/or are not ready for the debilitating impacts.  Governor Newsome is so concerned about the impacts of the blackouts that he has created a fund to help communities prepare.