Four surprising maps about American renewables

Climate Spectator

• BOBBY MAGILL 
 
• 19 JUN, 10:59 AM 
 

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EPA, DOE to study contaminated lands for bioenergy potential

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Lisa Gibson November 08, 2011

As part of the RE-Powering America Initiative, the U.S. EPA is investing about $1 million to determine the capability of 26 different contaminated sites to host renewable energy projects. The studies will be carried out through project partner U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Delaware City’s Standard Chlorine site in Delaware is among the superfund, brownfield and former landfill or mining sites being studied for potential to support biomass, solar, geothermal or wind projects. The other sites are in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, according to the EPA.

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IPCC: 80% renewable energy by 2050, wind power will have an increasingly important role

reve
may 11, 2011

The Global Wind Energy Council, (GWEC), welcomes the news, saying wind power will have an increasingly important role to play in the future energy mix.

Renewable energy sources are expected to contribute up to 80% of global energy supply by 2050, according to a new report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Following a review of 164 scenarios, the IPCC found that renewables will play the major role in any successful plan to combat climate change.

“The report clearly demonstrates that renewable technologies could supply the world with more energy than it would ever need, and at a highly competitive cost,” said Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council. “The IPCC report will be a key reference for policy makers and industry alike, as it represents the most comprehensive high level review of renewable energy to date.”

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IPCC: 80% renewable energy by 2050, wind power will have an increasingly important role

reve
may 11, 2011

The Global Wind Energy Council, (GWEC), welcomes the news, saying wind power will have an increasingly important role to play in the future energy mix.

Renewable energy sources are expected to contribute up to 80% of global energy supply by 2050, according to a new report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Following a review of 164 scenarios, the IPCC found that renewables will play the major role in any successful plan to combat climate change.

“The report clearly demonstrates that renewable technologies could supply the world with more energy than it would ever need, and at a highly competitive cost,” said Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council. “The IPCC report will be a key reference for policy makers and industry alike, as it represents the most comprehensive high level review of renewable energy to date.”

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Research and Markets: Investing in Renewable Technologies: Wind, Solar, Geotherm, Hydro, Biomass Will Dominate the World's Energy Supply System

Reuters
Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:13am EDT

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/374828/investing_in_renew) has
announced the addition of the "Investing in Renewable Technologies: Wind, Solar,
Geotherm, Hydro, Biomass" report to their offering.

Eventually renewable energies will dominate the world's energy supply system.
There is no real alternative. Mankind cannot indefinitely continue to base its
life on the consumption of finite energy resources.

Today, the world's energy supply is largely based on fossil fuels and nuclear
power. These sources of energy will not last forever and have proven to be
contributors to our environmental problems. The environmental impacts of energy
use are not new but they are increasingly well known; they range from
deforestation to local and global pollution. In less than three centuries since
the industrial revolution, mankind has already burned roughly half of the fossil
fuels that accumulated under the earth's surface over hundreds of millions of
years. Nuclear power is also based on a limited resource (uranium) and the use
of nuclear power creates such incalculable risks that nuclear power plants
cannot be insured.

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