Headline News:
- By mid-morning on Friday, in just a 12-hour stretch, more than a foot of rain fell near Kentwood, Louisiana. It was a downpour with an estimated likelihood of just once every 500 years, and roughly three months’ worth of rainfall during a typical hurricane season. It’s the latest in a string of what had once been rare rainstorms. [Pacific Standard]
Stormy weather. (Photo: Ines Hegedus-Garcia / Flickr)
- Opinion: “EPE scam to avoid renewable energy requirements” • An efficient new natural gas power plant costs 7.5¢/kWh over its lifetime. Solar power is routinely offered for long-term purchase power agreements at 4¢/kWh. Wind power contracts are approaching 3¢/kWh. But El Paso Electric builds gas plants. [Las Cruces Sun-News]
- The managing forester for Stiles Brook Forest, in Windham County, Vermont, sees an uncertain future because of climate change. Some signs are stunted trees, increasing numbers of invasive insects, and a dwindling moose population. A controversial plan to install 28 wind turbines at Stiles Brook is part of the solution. [vtdigger.org]
- The Australian Energy Market Operator has issued a stark warning: more wind and solar power will demand new approaches to avoid interruptions of the power supply. But the biggest variability that the electricity sector has to contend with is not intermittent solar or wind output; it is the ups and downs of power demand. [RenewEconomy]
- The crown estate has waded into the battle over Hinkley Point, pointing out that offshore windfarms are already cheaper than the proposed nuclear reactors. The crown estate said that windfarms at sea will be on course to meet 10% of the country’s electricity by 2020, sooner than Hinkley Point C can to produce 7%. [The Guardian]
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August 15 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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