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Covers:  clean energy, energy transition, electrification, wind power, solar power, energy efficiency, clean mobility, energy policy, climate policy, carbon markets
I publish the Quitting Carbon newsletter: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/. Former Managing Editor, @EnergyMonitorAI. justingerdes.bsky.social
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Opinion: LNG exports are backfiring on the US oil and gas industry

Opinion: LNG exports are backfiring on the US oil and gas industry

Energy Monitor — LNG exports are sending an increasing share of the US’s natural gas production overseas, exposing the domestic market to higher global prices. Surging gas prices make renewables even more attractive.
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US states partner up to grow the offshore wind industry

US states partner up to grow the offshore wind industry

Energy Monitor — The US states of Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia have signed a pact to collaborate on offshore wind development. The regional partnership is a potential model to avoid zero-sum, state-by-state competition and build a larger US market.
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Opinion: IPCC's stark warnings no reason for resignation

Opinion: IPCC's stark warnings no reason for resignation

Energy Monitor — The IPCC's latest report makes it clear that little time remains to prevent even more dangerous global warming - but to surrender to despair, when clean energy is ready to take over from fossil fuels, would be a mistake.
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Zero-emission, all-electric flight is closer than you think

Zero-emission, all-electric flight is closer than you think

Energy Monitor — Aviation is a notoriously difficult climate challenge. Pre-Covid, global aviation emissions were soaring, with solutions seemingly on the distant horizon, but it turns out we might be closer to boarding a zero-emission flight than we think. Pioneers like the regional seaplane airline Harbour Air, based in British Columbia, Canada, are charting a new course for the industry: all-electric short-haul flights.
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Pace of energy transition at stake in US election - Energy Monitor

Pace of energy transition at stake in US election - Energy Monitor

Energy Monitor — In the November presidential election, US voters will decide to constrain or accelerate the country's clean energy transformation. With so much competing for voters' attention as Election Day looms in the US - including the still-raging pandemic and a contested Supreme Court nomination - it is important to remember that climate change and clean energy are on the ballot.
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So, What Exactly Is Building Electrification?

So, What Exactly Is Building Electrification?

Greentech Media — Buildings were first electrified nearly 150 years ago. So, why is it that "building electrification" is now among the energy industry's most popular buzzwords? Most buildings run on multiple fuels. They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers and water heaters.
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How Should California Wind Down Its Fossil Fuel Industry?

How Should California Wind Down Its Fossil Fuel Industry?

Greentech Media — California's energy past is on a collision course with its future. Think of major oil-producing U.S. states, and Texas, Alaska or North Dakota probably come to mind. Although its position relative to other states has been falling for 20 years, California remains the seventh-largest oil-producing state, with 162 million barrels of crude coming up in 2018, translating to tax revenue and jobs.
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Unlocking Northern California's Offshore Wind Bounty

Unlocking Northern California's Offshore Wind Bounty

Greentech Media — Wind speeds off the coast of Humboldt County in Northern California are some of the strongest in the U.S. The region's steady gusts are so powerful, in fact, that the area was one of three potential offshore wind energy development zones in California included by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in a public pitch to developers last year.
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What Does It Take to Electrify Everything in Your Home?

What Does It Take to Electrify Everything in Your Home?

Greentech Media — The journey started, in part, with a bit of green-shaming. When a colleague was thinking about buying a heat pump for his home, Justin Guay asked how much more expensive it was than a gas furnace. "It doesn't matter," the colleague replied. "You're supposed to do your part to bring it down the cost curve."
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For the Record

For the Record

Santa Clara Magazine — Love Canal. The Exxon Valdez. Deepwater Horizon. Volkswagen. Blockbuster cases, but only part of the story for John C. Cruden J.D. '74, a civil servant and defender of the environment.
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How Nordic nations are leading on climate action

How Nordic nations are leading on climate action

Chinadialogue — The world can learn a lot from Sweden, Norway and Denmark's ambitious targets on carbon, writes author Justin Gerdes
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Three lessons for cities in Denmark's clean-energy revolution

Three lessons for cities in Denmark's clean-energy revolution

Citiscope — To find the world's most aggressive clean energy targets, look no further than Denmark.
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Quitting Carbon

Quitting Carbon

atavist.com — (e-book) Full title: "Quitting Carbon: How Denmark Is Leading the Clean Energy Transition and Winning the Race to the Low-Carbon Future" In December 2015, at COP21, in Paris, nearly 200 nations agreed to work together to reduce planet-warming pollution and, over the course of the century, decarbonize the global economy. In Denmark, the transition from fossil fuels started decades ago. The country boasts the world's most aggressive clean energy targets. By 2020, half the country's power will come from wind turbines; by 2050, Denmark aims to be fossil fuel-free. In this book, you'll meet the Danish policymakers, companies, and entrepreneurs working to build the next economy, the economy for a carbon-constrained world. As nations around the globe race to meet their own clean energy targets and carbon-reduction goals, Denmark’s story is an example for countries to follow in the post-Paris world.
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Climate Investing: Transition to a Low-Carbon World

Climate Investing: Transition to a Low-Carbon World

Mendoza Business - University of Notre Dame — Could business - long considered a villain when it comes to the environment - provide the solution to climate change? Experts from a diverse array of backgrounds weigh in as part of Mendoza's Climate Investing Conference.
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Making Ideas Happen

Making Ideas Happen

Pomona College Magazine — REMEMBER THE U.S. ARMY commercials from the 1980s? A voice intones: "We do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day." If Mad Men's Don Draper were to coin a catchphrase for Dick Post, it would read: "He's made more discoveries after age 90 than most scientists do in their careers."
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The Emerging Power of Microgrids | Ensia

The Emerging Power of Microgrids | Ensia

Ensia — After more than a century with little change, electricity infrastructure is being remade.
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Life with a Leaf: What I learned from four months with an electric car

Life with a Leaf: What I learned from four months with an electric car

The Guardian — Electric car sales are skyrocketing, and set to continue apace. What awaits drivers and businesses in the new world of plug-in cars?
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San Francisco neighborhood models resilience planning from the grassroots up

San Francisco neighborhood models resilience planning from the grassroots up

Citiscope — SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Everyone here assumes that an earthquake will hit this city hard some day, thanks to the geologic fault line that runs below it. But Hodge is not afraid. Hodge has a talent for being where he's needed during a crisis.
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Oceans of Energy

Oceans of Energy

Ensia — Technologies that harness the energy of moving water or temperature differentials in the oceans promise to deliver abundant carbon-free electricity.
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How Microgrids are Bolstering the Nation's Power Infrastructure

How Microgrids are Bolstering the Nation's Power Infrastructure

Smithsonian Magazine — Rather than drain power from a nearby plant, these systems create energy of their own, making for a more sustainable future.
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Marines Push to Front Lines in Renewable Energy Innovation

Marines Push to Front Lines in Renewable Energy Innovation

Yale Environment 360 — A backpack that generates electricity? A vest that cools you in a hot tent? As the U.S. military looks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the Marine Corps is leading the way with cutting-edge technology and innovative devices.
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Copenhagen's Ambitious Push To Be Carbon Neutral by 2025

Copenhagen's Ambitious Push To Be Carbon Neutral by 2025

Yale Environment 360 — The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes.
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