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Amazon Turns To Rooftop Solar To Boost Its Environmental Profile

by Steve Hanley March 3, 2017

In its annual ranking of world businesses based on their environmental policies, Greenpeace gave Amazon a so-so rating. Greenpeace said Amazon lags behind Apple, Facebook, and Google in terms of its renewable energy promises and projects. Not happy about being slapped around in public, Amazon has decided to ramp up its commitment to rooftop solar at its more than 50 worldwide operations centers.

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The global e-tailer will begin with its 15 largest shipping and sorting centers in the US and plans to convert them to mostly solar power by the end of 2017. Combined, they will have an output capacity of about 41 megawatts. The homegrown electricity means electricity won’t be purchased from local utility companies, most of which rely on fossil fuels like natural gas or coal to generate their electricity, or on nuclear power, which has its own set of environmental detriments.

Those who are not advocates of solar power often carp about how it places an unwarranted strain on the utility grid, but that argument fails to account for the benefits that flow to the surrounding community from breathing cleaner air that is not contaminated by the byproducts of combustion and to the utility by not needing to expand the grid further. Electricity that is created by sunlight and consumed close to its source pays dividends to all stakeholders.

March 3, 2017 0 comment

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Saudi Arabia: Fossil Fuels Are Cleaner … Wait, What? (Exclusive Video)

by Zach February 12, 2017

written by Zach

Originally published on CleanTechnica
by Zachary Shahan

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Khalid A. Al-Falih, who is also chairman of Saudi Aramco, the “world’s most valuable company,” was interviewed in Abu Dhabi for Global Action Day last week. I happened to be in attendance and captured Al-Falih making some rather interesting comments.

Asked about longtime ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson acting as Secretary of State for Donald Trump’s administration, the minister didn’t seem phased, didn’t really seem to care, and simply indicated that the USA is one of Saudi Arabia’s greatest friends and he hopes that will continue under Trump. In any case, Al-Falih didn’t display the type of concern or distress that many of us Americans have been having.

Presented with the need to cut emissions (something the minister agreed is the case) and asked what the role of leaving fossil fuels in the ground is, things then got quite weird. He replied, “I don’t think we need to do that.”

In other words, yes, we need to cut emissions a great deal, but no, we don’t need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

That was just the beginning. Al-Falih added: “In fact, I believe that, without the fossil fuels — by constraining their production — you actually are going to have a less sustainable global economy.” Wait, what?

Recognizing that he had said something that many people would view as absolutely absurd, Al-Falih cherry picked the one renewable technology that arguably hasn’t worked out as hoped. “We have seen biofuels create more emissions than fossil fuels.” In certain cases, yes. Luckily, cleantech enthusiasts have largely shifted their focus and hope toward the clean, cost-competitive leadership of solar and wind power combined with electric transport.

Unwilling to leave weird enough alone, Khalid Al-Falih then vaguely claimed that people in poverty have somehow created more emissions than if they had access to fossil energy. He skipped over the fact that solar is now cheaper than fossil fuels for off-grid applications and that developing countries can get electricity cheaper, quicker, and cleaner from renewables like solar and wind energy than from fossil fuels. Instead, he alluded to what must be a very niche situation in a comment that must have shocked plenty of others in the audience besides me: “We have seen people in poverty create more damage to the world’s ecosystem than people who have access.”

Knowing these comments were ridiculous as a response to the interviewer’s questions and wouldn’t lead him down a very persuasive avenue, Al-Falih quickly shifted to a focus on “more efficient” use of fossil fuels. “Fossil fuels will need to be further improved — through efficiency, through carbon mitigation, through carbon capture,” he stated, as if that would be enough for the fossil industry to otherwise keep rolling with business as usual.

He then came back to the topic of poverty, though, and tried to make the argument that we for some reason will need fossil fuels indefinitely to help bring people out of poverty. “Development is not an option, it’s an imperative. … Economic development will not happen without accessible, affordable energy. And I cannot see, I cannot see renewables alone doing it.”

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Solar and wind are cheaper. Electric vehicles and the batteries at their cores are practically there as well. Hydro and geothermal energy still provide good, cheap supplements in certain regions. All of those options offer greater energy reliability, energy security, and swift energy access than fossil fuels. Let’s be frank, though, when the world stops needing a tremendous amount of oil & gas, Saudi Arabia is going to get a lot poorer and Saudi Aramco is no longer going to be the most valuable company in the world — that is the issue Al-Falih was trying to skirt around and is surely trying to delay.

The $1.25 trillion to $10 trillion “value” of Saudi Aramco is a significant portion of the carbon bubble I wrote about the other day. If a lot of Saudi Arabia’s oil & gas is left in the ground, the value of Saudi Aramco is not so high, and more importantly for the minister and country, Saudi Arabia’s government and citizens will no longer be so rich. I am not saying this in order to spite them, but it is a practical reality they must at some point face … even if they don’t yet want to acknowledge it.

It’s not a huge surprise that Saudi Aramco’s projection for 2016–2040 was a battery price reduction of 40% despite battery prices dropping 35% in 2015 alone — it’s laughable, but not a huge surprise. Saudi Aramco and mother country Saudi Arabia don’t want to acknowledge that a large portion of the value of Saudi Aramco is in fossil “fuels” that need to — and likely will — stay in the ground as cherished but unused fossil liquids and gas. But denying this point doesn’t do justice to the intelligence of the speaker or the listeners, nor to the critical needs of the world as a whole.

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In summary, with a totally straight face and the calm tone, just moments after discussing the need to cut carbon emissions and combat climate change, Saudi Arabia Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid A. Al-Falih last week argued that fossil fuels are often better and even cleaner for the world than renewables, and that they are absolutely necessary.

It seemed to me like an embarrassing attempt to divert attention and not let on that the world has all it needs to intelligently move away from fossil fuels. It was pretty stunning as an attendee who, like others in the audience, was there for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, the World Future Energy Summit, the International Renewable Energy Agency General Assembly, etc. But that’s the world we live in today — we’re in the midst of a historic societal transition like no others. This transition will bring about a monumental socioeconomic and sociopolitical shift globally as we finally stop burning stuff for heat and electricity.

Perhaps Khalid Al-Falih didn’t seem bothered by Rexx Tillerson’s nomination for US Secretary of State under Donald Trump because, in many ways, Al-Falih and Tillerson have a lot in common — probably more than you or I have in common with Rex Tillerson or Donald Trump. Tillerson will presumably cheer for his side rather than Al-Falih’s in the world’s ongoing game of fossil energy Russian roulette, but he won’t try to change the game — he won’t try to get us playing tennis instead. For people like Al-Falih, that is apparently still seen as a positive thing, or at least nothing to stress over. Though, I would still love to get into an hour-long moral interrogation with people like Al-Falih and Tillerson. The denial can only run so deep.

Watch this exclusive CleanTechnica video of Khalid A. Al-Falih’s Global Action Day interview if you skipped doing so at the top:

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The Totally Insane Carbon Bubble

by Joshua S Hill February 9, 2017

written by Joshua S Hill

Originally published on CleanTechnica
by Zachary Shahan

As the cleantech transition speeds up, many of us are jumping for joy. Trump may be king of tweetland, but he and his oil & gas buddies can’t stop renewables or electric robotaxis. They know that.

Their goals are pretty clear, though: pump up the carbon bubble as much as possible, stuff as much cash into their own bank accounts before it pops, and hopefully retire and die before the whole global economy is brought down with the the thin soapy liquid that was probably much prettier as a bubble.

(Okay, I’ll admit it — Trump probably doesn’t realize there’s a carbon bubble and that cleantech is ready to pop it, but plenty of his hired henchmen certainly do.)

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I’m not the first to point out this issue. A few years ago when I was here in the UAE for Masdar’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, Andrew Winston was in our media group and kept asking basically anyone with influence, “What do you think of stranded assets?” He didn’t really need — and didn’t get — answers. The question delivered the point well enough. In simpler terms: “Renewable energy — great, fun! Our whole economy collapsing when trillions of dollars of assets quickly turn into useless pieces of junk and liabilities — uh oh.”

Someone else coined the term “carbon bubble” a few years earlier (perhaps Bill McKibben). Alex Steffen recently wrote a great piece on that topic as well that was widely loved and shared. Some researchers have tried to quantify the carbon bubble and put it at $20 trillion, while others put it at $100 trillion. Whatever the total amount of the bubble is, it isn’t small.

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The carbon bubble has long been clear, but it is becoming almost palpable … especially here at a renewable energy summit in the oil-rich Middle East.

But before discussing that oddity, let’s take this threat to its logical economic conclusion: If the investment community puts trillions of dollars into the coal, oil, and gas industries expecting many trillions more in returns, and then these industries collapse, the global economy is going to come crashing down as well. We got a short preview of that with the US housing bubble and the “dot com” bubble. A short preview.

Wait, actually, as Alex Steffen pointed out, it’s not the point of collapse that will bring the whole thing down — it’s the point at which the investment community stops acting psychotic and decides it’s time to get out of fossils. When investors really start to bail, well, we know how prone investors and traders are to bipolar swings.

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As I said, the thing that struck me today — at the International Renewable Energy Agency’s General Assembly — is that this coming pop, this explosion of the carbon bubble, this ensuing global disruption, is becoming palpable.

One of the world’s top renewable energy experts expressed a bit of bewilderment on the sidelines when I asked him what he thought of some of the hydrogen-related comments that had just been made by Engie and Statoil — he noted, in what seemed like slightly confused surprise, that there had been several other comments about hydrogen today and yesterday already — unlike in previous years. What’s up with that? Where did that come from? Hydrogen? Didn’t we debunk the “vast potential” of that option years ago? (Yes, I’m projecting a lot and don’t fully know what this expert thought of it all.)

There was a focused repetition on the extremely low cost of renewables in various sessions and several of the industry leaders’ and political leaders’ statements, but certain players kept hyping hydrogen.

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Top Solar Speakers Converge On Berlin April 10th

by Zach March 12, 2016

written by Zach

As I wrote yesterday, Solar Love is partnering with CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, GridHub, and others to bring the first Cleantech Revolution Tour event to Berlin, Germany. It will focus on solar energy one day (April 10) and electric vehicles the other day (April 9). You can view the agenda here, register here, or sign up to help sponsor the event here.

Just to highlight in greater detail some of the wonderful solar speakers who will be presenting in their own sessions and discussing the future of solar on a panel at the Berlin event, below are short bios about some of the key speakers.

Stefan Schurig

Stefan is the Director of Climate, Energy, and Cities at the World Future Council. Stefan is an architect by training, but has devoted most of his career to energy and climate change issues. Before he started working for the World Future Council in 2007, he was the spokesperson for Greenpeace in Germany and headed the Greenpeace Climate and Energy department for 9 years. During this time, he also co-founded Germany’s second-largest green electricity supplier. In 2004, Stefan was appointed as member of the REALISE Forum, an international platform on renewable energy policies led by the European Commission. As Director Climate Energy at the World Future Council (WFC), Stefan initiated the international policy campaign on renewable energy and the worldwide promotion of ‘Feed-In Tariffs’ as one of the best policies for a massive uptake of renewable energy. In 2008, Stefan became a member of the energy advisory board of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) and was appointed by UN Habitat as an advisor of the World Urban Campaign. Stefan also founded and coordinates the WFC international expert commission on Cities and Climate Change. He works as a direct advisor for governments and parliamentarians around the globe and authored various publications on climate change subjects.

Tobias Engelmeier

Tobias is Director and Founder of Bridge to India, India’s leading sustainability advisory firm. He’s also the founder of IndiaGoesSolar.com and an early supporter and investor of GridHub. Tobias contributes epic articles about the Indian energy market and climate policies on CleanTechnica. He holds a PhD in politics, has a great love for India, an equally great concern for our climate future, and is currently working on ways to accelerate an energy transition across various developing countries.

Craig Morris

Born in the United States, Craig Morris has been living in Germany since 1992. In 2002, he founded Petite Planète, a translation and documentation service focusing on IT and renewables. He is the author of the book Energy Switch (2006), has served as editor of several energy magazines, and has written numerous articles in both English and German on energy technologies and policies. He is the editor of Renewables International, and he is lead author at the Energiewende Blog. In 2013 and 2014, Craig served as technical editor of IRENA’s REmap 2030, and in 2014, he won the IAEE’s award for journalism in energy economics.

Zachary Shahan

Well, this is me, but if you don’t know much about my background, here’s a bit of a primer. I’m the director and editor of CleanTechnica (the #1 most-visited cleantech-focused news and analysis site on the internet) as well as EV Obsession and SolarLove (two sites I founded in 2012). I’m also the president of Important Media, which is the parent network to those three sites and ~20 others. I’m the editor of Masdar’s Sustainnovate as well, and you can find my work all over the internet, including on Scientific American, Reuters, The Economist Group’s GE Look Ahead, ABB’s Conversations, the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, Renewable Energy World, TreeHugger, most Important Media sites, and several other websites.

I have been referenced or interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, and numerous other news outlets and websites. I have also presented, provided workshops, and moderated panels at clean energy and electric vehicles conferences in the US, Canada, and India (and soon Europe). In 2013, I was named one of the top 20 influencers on fuel economy matters alongside President Obama, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, the US Secretary of Energy, Nissan & Renault Chairman & CEO Carlos Ghosn, GM’s CEO and president, and several other car company execs as well as a few leading auto journalists.

As I wrote yesterday, if you are interested in learning more about solar power, and especially German solar power, by world experts on the topic in an accessible, fun, comfortable setting in the flesh, I think this is the perfect event for you.

The dates are April 9–10, 2016.

The price is just €50.

And you can reserve your spot via our registration page or simply by clicking right here:

If you would like to sponsor this Cleantech Revolution Tour event, sponsorship options are here.

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NREL Analysis: Extending Tax Credits Impacts Renewable Energy Deployment

by Glenn Meyers March 2, 2016

written by Glenn Meyers

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has issued a new analysis exploring the potential impact of recently extended federal tax credits concerning the deployment of renewable generation technologies and related CO2 emissions from the US electric sector.

The report, Impacts of Federal Tax Credit Extensions on Renewable Deployment and Power Sector Emissions, details the use of state-of-the-art scenario modeling to explore these two questions:

How might renewable energy deployment in the contiguous United States change with these recent federal tax credit extensions?
How might this change in renewable energy deployment impact CO2 emissions in the power sector?

Federal tax credits for renewable energy, particularly the wind production tax credit (PTC) and the solar investment tax credit (ITC), have provided financial incentives for renewable energy deployment over the last two decades. In December 2015, the wind and solar tax credits were extended another five years from their initial scheduled expiration dates.

March 2, 2016 0 comment

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Community Energy Programs Presented At Paris Climate Change Conference

by Jake Richardson January 5, 2016

written by Jake Richardson

At the Paris climate change talks, one presentation by a group of American officials raised awareness about the benefits of community energy programs. The group’s members were:

Shawn Marshall, Lean Energy US
Cliff Rechtschaffen, Office of California Governor Jerry Brown
Dawn Weisz, CEO, Marin Clean Energy (MCE)
Tom Butt, Mayor, City of Richmond, California.

One of the benefits of such programs is helping to meet climate change carbon reduction goals by focusing on the development of renewable energy projects to replace fossil fuels. The mayor of Richmond, California, explained that once they were fully enrolled, the city’s ratepayers saved $1 million dollars. He also talked about the development of a solar power plant.

300 people will be employed during the construction, which will help them for the duration of the project, but they will also learn skills that can help them continue working in the solar power field. The larger goal is to move towards a decarbonized economy, within the context of a long-term sustainability goal.

Marin Clean Energy has achieved an impressive level of renewable electricity — 56%, while the local utility is less than 30%. The clean energy group was created in 2010, so it only took five years to reach that mark. It also has over 170,000 customers, so clearly there is interest within the service area.

Offering an alternative to electricity provided by utilities can spur market competition, something which has not existed very much historically in the sector.

As was noted on the Institute For Local Self-Reliance’s website, “For example, by 2022, on-site solar power could provide less costly electricity than the electric utility for at least 10% of residential and commercial customers in nearly every state. In that timeframe, electric vehicles and other energy storage options combined with powerful ‘apps’ will give utility customers unprecedented control over their energy use.”

Of course, it’s no surprise that energy programs developed by communities can be effective — they are customized for an area and a population to address its specific needs.

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Energy Watch Group Wants Higher-Caliber & ‘Realistic’ Energy Projections From IEA

by Cynthia December 18, 2015

written by Cynthia

An international network of scientists and parliamentarians, Energy Watch Group, is interested in better work from the IEA. The Energy Watch Group (EWG) wants higher-caliber reporting and realistic scenarios from the IEA. Christian Breyer, Professor for Solar Economy at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland and lead author of the recent EWG study, said, “We need urgent help of journalists and civil society to find out the real reasons for these continuous incorrect IEA projections for solar PV and wind energy.”

The EWG reports that the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2015 “once again” dramatically underestimated the potential of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy.

EnergyGlobal.com wrties, “the decline in the expansion of the wind and solar energy, projected by the WEO2015, is not correct, the EWG assessment shows.”

The recent study shows that the IEA, for 10 years, “has been continuously publishing misleading projections on solar PV and wind energy.”

The WEO vitally affects the political and economic decisions of world governments regarding energy matters. As EnergyGlobal.com explains,

“The WEO 2015 shows one cannot take the IEA seriously as a credible energy analyst any longer,” President of the Energy Watch Group and former Member of the German Parliament Hans-Josef Fell said. “Despite its own warnings of limited investments in the oil business, the IEA predicts a further increase in the oil production until 2030. Meanwhile, the actually occurring rapid development of renewable energy is downplayed. This way the IEA increasingly turns into a cause of the global warming.”

As noted again in EnergyGlobal.com, in spite of the “exponential growth of solar PV and wind power in the last decades,” the IEA conjectures linear growth (for solar and wind), meaning no growth in the annual installation capacities. The article points out that, in fact, the annual market growth of wind energy has been just under 10% since 2000, and solar PV higher by a good measure. “Bloomberg New Energy Finance (market analyses) and IHS forecast a 10% or more annual market growth of solar PV in the coming years.” Why not the IEA?

It seems almost tragic that, in its baseline “New Policy Scenario,” the IEA rather sees wind and solar PV markets diminishing: “the annual added capacity for the period 2015 to 2040 is respectively 20% and 40% lower than the current levels.” Giving a still diminished yet supposedly “optimistic” take in “450 Scenario,” the IEA assumes no (0%) annual market growth for both technologies.

“Although the IEA spreads positive messages in its WEO presentations, the actual figures show serious errors and inadequately low forecasts for sustainable energy technologies, which are the least expensive form of energy supply in a growing number of regions in the world,” Christian Breyer, Professor for Solar Economy at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland and lead author of the recent EWG study, said.

In an eariler story this month on CleanTechnica.com, Giles Parkinson did highlight corrections from the IEA regarding more ridiculous claims from Bjorn Lomborg. But there’s still much need for improvement.

300 State & Local Lawmakers Support 50% Clean Energy By 2030

by Jake Richardson December 18, 2015

written by Jake Richardson

Lawmakers and politicians generally are not considered the most prominent clean energy advocates, but something seems to be changing — why else would 300 of them get behind it? Their interest has come to a central focus point due to the Paris climate change talks that just took place, and they all signed a letter to President Obama expressing their support for clean energy.

Mayor Jeri Muoio of West Palm Beach, FL, Mayor Frank Cownie of Des Moines, IA, and additional state and local leaders are members of a coalition with hundreds of lawmakers supporting the goal of 50% clean energy by 2030. California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León also is part of the group. “By promoting the development of clean energy resources, we are simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality, and creating jobs that can lift families out of poverty. With SB 350 now enacted into law, we’re on track to reach 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and we’re not looking back. If Congress won’t act, it’s incumbent on state and local leaders to do the job for them.”

Cownie has supported climate change awareness to make cities more able to withstand extreme weather. “Local governments have always been the leaders on climate action, but we need more support from the federal government. We need better local-federal coordination on disaster preparedness, and we need them to address our aging and inadequate infrastructure, which has been under-funded for far too long. I am proud to be a part of the Resilient Communities for America campaign to help raise awareness and visibility on these issues,” he explained.

He made that statement over 2 years ago, and was included in a list of US mayors that were trying to address climate change in their cities.

West Palm Beach’s mayor Jeri Muoio was supporting solar energy 4 years ago, so her involvement is not a spur-of-the-moment reaction either. “The most obvious benefactor is our environment. But the jobs created as the components are manufactured and installed will also boost the local economy. And those who go green will realize a great reduction in energy costs over time. It’s really a win-win for West Palm Beach and the county as a whole,” said Muoio.

One particularly encouraging thing about this recent conference is that people who were in the position to make policy decisions seemed to be listening to the climate change scientists (for the most part).

Of course, solar power has never been more affordable, so investing in more it should be easier than it has ever been. Energy storage is becoming more available, and appears to be doing so faster than solar power became viable.

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1 GW Of Solar Planned By Indian Coal Mining Firm

by Jake Richardson October 9, 2015

written by Jake Richardson

Coal India Limited (CIL) is reportedly planning to construct solar power projects in a number of areas of India totaling one gigawatt of capacity. CIL wants to reduce its carbon footprint and plans to finish a 250 MW installation in the Madhya Pradesh area within twelve months.

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Solar Energy Corporation of India and CIL, but one issue that might delay the remaining 750 MW of projects is finding appropriate sites. Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand have been suggested as possible locations, as have Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

It’s commendable that a coal mining company would seek to reduce its carbon footprint — the thing is, it is basically being forced to. One gigawatt of solar is quite a large amount, but India is a massive country — one of the most populous on Earth. It has ambitious clean energy goals, and surely will achieve many of them, if not more.

Adding new solar capacity is not only about reducing climate change emissions, though. Solar power plants can be built faster than coal plants, so they have a value that coal plants do not, to fill in gaps in electricity supply. They also can help shore up electrical grids that are overburdened and serve somewhat as backups when there are disruptions.

Due to the decline in solar costs, they also simply make sense financially in some cases, where they are more cost-competitive than fossil fuels. They also don’t produce enormous amounts of harmful air pollution, and some urban centers in India have far, far too much of that already. It is very sensible of the government to require that its agencies and government-owned companies use cleaner energy.

Constructing solar power plants also creates a lot of new jobs, and sometimes these new plants are located in areas with high unemployment, so they contribute to local economies by providing clean energy jobs.

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Clean Power Plan Will Lower Electric Bills, Study Says

by Steve Hanley July 31, 2015

written by Steve Hanley

A report from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) says that states can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by using a combination of renewable energy sources and energy saving strategies. It says those changes are affordable if done properly.

Marilyn Brown, the project’s lead researcher and the Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech tells Think Progress, “To minimize costs, the country needs to reduce its coal consumption more rapidly, continue to expand its gas-fired power plants, but temper this growth with aggressive policies to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy.”

Complying with the Clean Power Plan would also produce substantial collateral benefits such as lower electricity bills, greater GDP growth, and significant reductions in SO2, NOx, and mercury emissions. “The strong push on energy efficiency also enables GDP to rise above the business-as-usual forecast,” said Brown. “The US increases its exports and decreases its imports as a result of being more competitive.”

Another recent report by energy research firm Synapse Energy Economics finds that average energy bills in 2030 could be $35 per month lower under a “Clean Energy Future” scenario than they would be if the Clean Power Plan is not put into operation.

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