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Climate Communication Reimagined: Appealing Across Moral Foundations
Recently, while deeply engaged in energy transition scenario planning with TenneT for the Netherlands’ decarbonization by 2050, I found myself considering again the lessons of Jonathan Haidt’s 2012 book, The Righteous Mind, a book I recently read for the first time. Haidt’s insights into the moral foundations that underpin human … [continued]
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Clean Energy Experts Say It’s Time To Move Beyond LCOE
A growing number of energy experts are urging policymakers and industry leaders to retire the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) as the go-to metric for comparing clean energy technologies. A new report from the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), Beyond LCOE: A Systems-Oriented Perspective for Evaluating Electricity Decarbonization Pathways, argues … [continued]
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Challenges & Opportunities in US Offshore Wind Market
I recently sat down with Kris Ohleth, Director of the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and progress in the US offshore wind market. It was a great and fascinating discussion of the US offshore wind industry, what it’s been going through in the paste decade … [continued]
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Ireland Shutters Its Last Coal-Fired Generating Station
Ireland has shuttered its last coal-fired generating station in County Clare. The site will become a clean energy hub.
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How sensors, software, and other tech could help Ohio’s aging power grid
By Kathiann M. Kowalski
This story was originally published by Canary Media.
A new state law will require Ohio utilities and regulators to consider how technology might offer cost-effective options for improving the state’s aging electric grid.
Ohio’s grid, like those in many states, faces rising repair and maintenance costs, growing demand from data centers and other new customers, and increased risks as climate change fuels more frequent severe weather and outages.