Category: Blog

Date: 5th April 2017 – 7th April 2017 Location: Boston – Massachusetts – USA

The Microgrid is the next frontier in the transformation to a 21st century energy infrastructure.

Solar and Wind energy are now fast becoming commonplace and are experiencing massive deployment.  Load management using Time of use (TOU) and demand response (DR) resources is now common practice for many utilities in the United States and around the globe.  Energy storage and electric vehicle adoption are also seeing a greater market share as prices continue to plummet.

The next step is to tie this Menagerie of resources together into microgrids Continue reading

“My colleagues have exhaustively proven, in infinite detail, that we can put together an electric power supply that’s all renewable,” said David Freeman, author of All-Electric America and longtime utility CEO. “Their studies prove that beyond any reasonable debate.”

Read the press release at Environment America website

See also the related article at the Solar Industry magazine

Innovative Rice Air, Climate, and Energy Education found here

Tandem Talks on Unleashing Our Home and Country from Fossil Fuels can be found here.  Additional expert talks can be found here.   Student talks can be found here.

I had the great pleasure of being asked to give a tandem-talk with Assistant Professor Daniel Cohan at the Rice Policy and Legal Dimensions of Climate Energy Forum.  The forum, held on February 9^th and 10^th, 2016, was the first of a series of forums led and developed by Professor Cohan. Continue reading

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New study finds that 2^oC limit may be conservative.  The article, “A New Climate-Change Danger Zone?” in the New Yorker explores, how unresolved the limit is and that even at 2 degrees Celsius we will see major climate impacts. Continue reading

Joe Romm’s article, “The Link Between Climate Change And ISIS Is Real,” portends future instability throughout the world and the impact on the United States as climate change causes more disruption. Continue reading

Pope Francis is shaking up many conservative Catholic Americans who do not believe in climate change.  Read the Atlantic for some insights not only on how Jeb, a covert to Catholicism, deals with this conundrum, but how many Catholic climate deniers may try to explain this as they face perhaps a different reality. Continue reading