Bloom Energy’s recent announcement of their fuel cell-based “energy server” drew lots of attention from the press, and for good reason. It set some nice marks for performance, and, if successful, will likely be the first of a new market category of energy products. At Sun we looked at this technology a couple of years [...]
Posts Tagged ‘policy’
The Unasked Questions
Tom Fuller at Examiner.com ran a survey on various aspects of climate change and policy for the last few days (sorry, the survey is now closed, but Tom says he’ll be writing up the results soon). At the end he asked for any questions that he might have missed. Usually by that point in a [...]
Trip Report: A Visit to the Capitol
This was written for my Sun blog and cross-posted here Last week I was down in DC with a group of investors and business execs, many of whom were in the green space under the banner wecanlead.org, a collaboration between Ceres and the Clean Economy Network. John Doerr was the headliner of the group, but [...]
Pielke: The Australian Gambit
Roger Pielke, Jr summarizes the state of climate legislation in Australia, and speculates on what it could mean for the US. If this is the next outcome here I would think it quite positive – strengthen the renewable energy and efficiency efforts, and drop the poorly designed cap and trade for now.
A Good Customer for Clean Energy
[Note: I jointly authored this with Dan Sarewitz of ASU] The House of Representatives has passed a massive climate change bill aimed at legislating a new, climate-friendly energy supply into existence through emissions caps, technology standards, and incentives. The bill’s champions assume that, in response to an array of mandated carrots and sticks, nimble startup [...]
Waxman-Markey:
I need to add links to this yet Every environmentally-knowledgeable person I’ve talked to the last few months has come to the same conclusion: the ACES bill (aka Waxman-Markey) is not going to do anything for the environment, at least for a couple of decades. This has put us all in a quandary. Do we [...]
Last to the Figure It Out
I was just blogging on my Sun blog about how Yahoo! just dropped their plans to purchase carbon offsets because they realized they could use their expertise and the money to do smart things with their own impact, instead of paying others to reduce theirs. A couple of years ago
Waxman-Markey: Something for Everyone
In their effort to add something for everybody in Waxman-Markey, its gotten so huge that I fear that there’s now something for everyone to hate in it.
Carbon Offsets in Good Magazine
A useful discussion of offsets in Good Magazine.
International Carbon Offsets: The Next Trillion
In my role of Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun, I take part in an annual discussion of whether the company should purchase carbon offsets as part of our GHG reduction plan. Since we can buy carbon offsets at a price which is lower than what it costs us to reduce our GHG directly, we have [...]