Headline News:
- “Companies End Effort to Buy Navajo Generating Station” • The companies negotiating to purchase the largest coal-fired power plant in the southwestern US have broken off their pursuit of that goal. This means the 2,250-MW Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona, remains scheduled to close by year-end 2019. [Power magazine]
View from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (National Park Service photo)
- “Putting a dollar value on one of oil’s biggest subsidies: military protection” • Securing America’s Future Energy, a clean-energy advocacy group composed of retired military and business leaders, published a paper on the costs to the US military of defending oil supplies. They said the cost is at least $81 billion per year. [Vox]
- “Portugal third in renewable energy production” • Portugal got 54.1% of its electricity from renewable resources in 2016, Eurostat reported. Portugal was one of only EU five countries that got more than half their electricity from renewable sources: 50%, Austria (72.6%), Sweden (64.9%), Portugal (54.1%), Denmark (53.7%) and Latvia (51.3%). [The Portugal News]
- “The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Train is Now On Track in Germany” • French train-building company Alstom delivered its first two hydrogen-powered trains to Germany. They are the first of many Alstom already has on order. Germany is lowering its emissions from the transportation sector, and diesel trains are to be phased out. [Jalopnik]
- “217 scientists sign letter opposing logging as a response to wildfires” • The House version of the 2018 Farm Bill now being considered would expand logging on public lands in response to increases in wildfires. A group of 217 scientists, educators, and land managers signed an open letter calling on lawmakers to consider what they are doing. [Wildfire Today]
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September 23 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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