General Energy
A Small Country Goes Big with Renewables: Denmark’s goal to be fossil fuel free
Denmark is making a big commitment to renewables. In the early 1970s imported oil supplied 92 percent of Denmark’s energy.
Ten Things More Important than the Clean Power Plan in Limiting Carbon Emissions in the U.S.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a stay to halt the Clean Power Plan regulation. Here are ten policies, trends, and market forces that are having a larger substantive impact on the trajectory of CO₂ emissions in the U.S. than the Clean Power Plan will.
As Oil Prices Gyrate, Underlying Trends Are Shifting To Oil’s Disadvantage
Why should equity markets tank when oil prices do? Beats me. Among many sources of jitters, this shouldn’t be a big one (though The Economist demurs). When oil prices fall 70+ percent, oil companies and their lenders and investors suffer, so do oil-dependent communities, but oil users (far more…
Top Ten RMI Blog Posts of 2015
As we start 2016, we thought we’d look back at all the exciting stories from the past year as told through our blog site.
Top 12 Clean Energy Developments of 2015
From a global climate accord to major domestic progress on the renewables front, 2015 was a great year for clean energy.