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Georgia Residents Continue Speaking Up About the IRP
Georgia Power, the investor-owned utility that has monopoly status and serves customers in 150 counties in Georgia, is planning for its next two decades of energy use, and Georgia residents are making…
JEA’s new solar program: The good, the bad, and the ugly
The JEA board yesterday approved a new solar package that was put together by its staff on a very tight timeline despite a months-long stakeholder process. JEA is the largest municipal utility…
EPA Announces Limits to Greenhouse Gas Emissions on New Power Plants
This Guest Post was written by Laura Beans and was originally posted on EcoWatch.com The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed carbon emissions standards for new power plants [on Friday, Sept. 20].…
The New Nuclear Craze
This op-ed by Mark Bittman, originally appeared here in the New York Times. There is a new discussion about nuclear energy, prompted by well-founded concerns about carbon emissions and fueled by a…
TVA Continues to Mismanage Solar Power
Charlie Coggeshall, SACE Renewable Energy Manager, also contributed to this post. Last month the Tennessee Valley Authority proudly announced what they considered to be good news: That their 2013 Green Power Provider…
The EPA market manipulation switcheroo
This guest blog was written by Tyson Slocum, the director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, and was originally published on May 30 in The Hill. There is a long history of using Environmental Protection Agency…
Nirvana Fallacy: Must Wind Energy be 100%?
Logical fallacies are frequently employed by politicians and news media to short-circuit a thoughtful and critically thinking public. For example, several arguments against wind power and other renewable energies frequently suffer from…
Solar Spirit
This blog complements "40 Religious Groups Practicing Creation Care with Wind Turbines," posted February 23. Solar energy represents an opportunity to reduce one's impact on the environment, while also potentially saving money.…
Identifying Leaders: "Solar in the Southeast" Annual Report blog series (part 3 of 5)
This is part three in a five-part series about the SACE “Solar in the Southeast” 2017 Annual Report To view other blogs in this series, click here. Identifying Utility Solar Leaders and "SunRisers"…