“Amazon has announced plans to invest in 26 utility scale wind and solar plants generating 3.4GW of electricity. That will bring its renewables capacity to 4GW of renewables, making it the world’s largest corporate buyer of clean energy, outstripping Facebook and Google.”
BusinessWire reports that McDonald’s has partnered with Apex Clean Energy to buy renewable energy.
The study found that this dwarfs the cost of keeping nuclear power plants online by billions of dollars, even when the risks of a meltdown and the cost of nuclear waste storage are considered.
As Renewable Energy World writes, Portland General Electric and NextEra Energy Resources are working together to develop a commercial power generation facility in eastern Oregon.
“When your great-aunt talks about how dangerous nuclear energy is, you can allay her fears. Nuclear energy is actually one of the safest industrial professions, for workers and the larger local communities.”
“Using Arcadia’s proprietary nationwide energy bill data, they estimated that running those lights in December costs Americans a total of $645 million. For each household that has Christmas lights, that’s an average of an extra $12 on their December power bill (up to $20 in California).”
"To that end, President Xi said that the total amount of wind and solar power that China generates will rise exponentially — from 500 million kilowatts to 1.2 billion kilowatts in a decade. To do that, local governments in China need as much as 20% storage capacity. Now that the starting gun has been fired, which technologies have the inside track?”
“'This program will help the industry collectively improve operations and continue to drive down emissions,' Matthew Todd, program director of the Environmental Partnership, told the Washington Examiner."
"The U.S. has driven carbon emissions down to generational lows, even as U.S. energy production and energy demand have grown."
Biden has lofty environmental goals, and his picks echo this. Conservatives will have plenty to oppose but will also have an opportunity to respond to Biden’s ambition with proposals of their own.
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