Headline News:
- “Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe.” • The tropical rain forests of Indonesia have large amounts of carbon trapped within their trees and soil. However, slashing and burning the existing forests to make way for oil-palm cultivation had a perverse effect: It released more carbon. [New York Times]
Remains of an Indonesian rain forest cleared for palm oil (Photo: Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times)
- “Eleven Renewable Energy Suitors for Rhode Island” • Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s goal of 1 GW of renewables by the end of 2020 has taken a 400 MW step. The state’s 400 MW Request for Proposals received a total of 41 project bids from eleven developers. The projects were cumulatively 2.5 GW of capacity. [pv magazine USA]
- “Exelon Opposes Trump Mercury Rule Rollback” • After the Trump administration proposed a plan to roll back a rule limiting the amount of mercury coal generating stations can release into the environment, Exelon, one of the country’s largest electricity generators, sent representatives to meet with EPA officials in opposition of the plan. [CleanTechnica]
- “Wind, Solar Are Now the Cheapest Sources of Power Generation” • Thanks to falling costs, unsubsidized onshore wind and solar have become the cheapest sources of electricity generation in nearly all major economies in the world, including India and China, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. [OilPrice.com]
- “Corporates Make EU PPA Plea” • Microsoft, Google, and other major corporations are calling on European governments to remove barriers for them to invest in renewable energy. Around 100 organisations called for improving investment conditions by removing regulatory and administrative restrictions on corporate clean power sourcing. [reNEWS]
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November 20 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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