Prime Minister Naoto Kan has ordered the temporary closure of Hamaoka – the nuclear plant that sits on an active faultline – while a new tsunami wall is built, and he has abandoned plans to build 14 reactors over the next 20 years, opting instead for a 20% increase in renewables.
Engineers reported no “fatal flaws” that could permanently derail the project, and that the development of one or both dam sites offers Canton “the opportunity to generate essentially all of the power consumed by Town facilities through clean, renewable hydropower.”
A detailed new energy report argues that the natural gas industry has propagated dangerously false claims about natural gas production supply, cost and environmental impact. The report, “Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century” is authored by leading geoscientist and Post Carbon Institute Fellow J. David Hughes.
Wind power is one of the most cost-effective sources of electricity available, capable of generating power at prices competitive with new natural gas plants and cheaper than new coal and nuclear plants. Across the US, abundant wind resources can be harnessed to produce reliable and clean electricity.
Renewable energy could account for almost 80% of the world’s energy supply within four decades – but only if governments pursue the policies needed to promote green power, according to a landmark report published on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world’s leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations,
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Regardless of what the wind industry would like us to believe, property values are impacted by nearby industrial wind turbines. Wind proponents insist that property values are not impacted by wind turbines; they argue there will always be a buyer; it is simply a matter of taste.
Town officials in Hamden and the Board of Education have signed a 10-year agreement with UTC Power to install and operate a fuel cell at Hamden High School.
Senior Michael Marshall has explored the feasibility of wind-generated power on the ConnCollege campus. He presented his research to a small but engrossed audience in Olin on the afternoon of April 29.
Another heads up from Environmental Headlines with a story from The Hartford Business Journal about John Larson nearing his goal of making natural gas a transportation fuel of choice. He is urging Connecticut businesses to prepare for the upcoming revolution.
The co-chairs of the legislature’s Energy Committee Wednesday introduced a scaled-back version of their plan to tax electricity producers on the basis of how the power is generated, but their new proposal drew little enthusiasm from legislative leaders and the Malloy Administration, The Connecticut Mirror reports.
On the roof of the school now are 68 290-watt panels that will produce just under 22,000 kilowatt hours a year, the Wilton Bulletin reports.
Danbury Hospital’s cogeneration plant, which recently went on line, uses a 4.5 megawatt turbine fired by clean-burning natural gas to generate electricity.
The town of Glastonbury is one of only 14 Connecticut towns to qualify under a $4.17 millon grant from the U.S. Department of Energy intended to help residents reduce energy use by 20 percent by the year 2020.
The Ridgefield Neighbor-to-Neighbor Energy Challenge will introduce its goals to the community April 26 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the town’s Parks and Recreation Center, 195 Danbury Road.
Gov. Dannel Malloy says he opposes the proposed tax of the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, which forced the facilities owners to consider closing Connecticut’s largest producer of electricity. Read more here: Malloy opposes Millstone nuclear tax | Hartford Business.
State Reps. Matt Lesser, Joseph Serra, and Speaker of the House Christopher G. Donovan held an energy forum for seniors at the Middletown Senior Center recently.
Maybe $5 per gallon for gasoline isn’t such a bad idea — if that is what it takes to motivate this nation to adopt an energy policy that finally moves us away from our dependency on foreign oil.
The plaintiff, Nancy Burton, appeals from the judgment of the trial court dismissing her complaint and denying her application for a temporary restraining order on the ground that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction.
Just when there’s an enviro no-brainer to embrace—like green renewable energy—careful scrutiny reveals another yawning maw of unintended consequences.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy: “We need to help our neighbors be as efficient as they possibly can in the use of energy in their homes. We’ve got to do it person by person, neighbor by neighbor.”
