LIPA-Suction: A Shift in the Future of U.S. Offshore Wind
by Richard T. Stuebi This past week, it was reported (for instance, see article in Newsday) that the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), or at least its Chairman Kevin Law, was in favor of pulling the...
View ArticleWhat I Read on My Summer Vacation
by Richard T. Stuebi In the spirit (though not the length) of a back-to-school book report, I dedicate this column to reviewing three energy-related books that I read in the last few weeks as the...
View ArticleOffshore Wind Report
by Richard T. Stuebi Last week, I traveled to Berlin with a delegation representing Northern Ohio’s Regional Energy Development Task Force to attend the European Offshore Wind Conference and...
View ArticleThe Increasing Ubiquity of Cleantech
by Richard T. Stuebi I have subscribed to Forbes for over a decade because, unlike many other popular business journals, it seems to have a genuine voice — even if I sometimes disagree with it. On a...
View ArticleUpdate on Offshore Wind
by Richard T. Stuebi In Cleveland, the Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force (a collaboration involving many local public, private and academic organizations, led by the Cuyahoga County government)...
View ArticleGridlock Windblock
by Richard T. Stuebi I don’t know if it’s a myth, but I’ve heard it said that a city’s suicide rates and average wind speeds are correlated. According to the claim, there may be something fundamental...
View ArticleOffshore Wind: Europe Now, U.S. When?
by Richard T. Stuebi Every two years, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) holds a major conference on offshore wind energy. The last time EWEA convened its offshore event, in December 2007 in...
View ArticleCape Wind is New Source of U.S. Renewable Energy
By John Addison (4/29/10) The United States now has a new source of clean electricity for homes, buildings, and industrial stationary power and also for the growing use of electricity in rail and...
View ArticleCleantech Meets Heavy Steel
I had a fascinating presentation today from John Robertson, managing director of BiFab, one of the first movers in offshore wind platform fabrications. They just rolled off doing a 31 unit, 14 month...
View ArticleRPAG – Renewable Power at Scale = Scotland?
Comments by Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, were a highlight of my fascinating introduction to RPAG – Renewable Power at Scale, this week. With 206 GW of offshore renewable energy potential...
View ArticleWild Is The Wind
Late May, the wind industry flocked to Anaheim for its annual gathering, Windpower, hosted by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). For the first time in quite awhile, attendance was down from...
View ArticleFailure Is An Option: Cost Is Not No Object
I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to polls about energy issues. Way too often, the questions are posed in such a way that they practically compel the respondent to answer in a certain way....
View ArticleThe Great State of Uticana
Last week, at the stunning student union of The Ohio State University, Battelle convened a meeting entitled 21st Century Energy & Economic Summit on behalf of Ohio Governor John Kasich, who both...
View ArticleGE Whiz: Vic Abate
On March 1, the Clean Energy Trust of Chicago convened the Clean Energy Challenge, a business plan competition for clean energy ventures from the Midwest. The lunch speaker was Vic Abate, Vice...
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