Renewable Energy

By Bjørn Lomborg Global evidence is clear: Adding more solar and wind to the energy supply pushes up the price of electricity for consumers and businesses. Families in Ontario know this already from their bitter experience: from 2005, the Ontario government began phasing out coal energy and dived headlong into subsidizing wind and solar generation. Those green …

COMMENTARY: Solar and Wind Power Are Expensive – Fraser Insitute Read More »

Renewable power assets have now become a buyers’ market Wind, solar are still key to meet rising electricity demand Private infrastructure investors are snatching up green bargains in what’s emerged as a buyer’s market for wind, solar and battery projects. The moves follow a a slump in clean-energy stocks, as US President Donald Trump’s call for …

Green Investors Are Finding Bargains in Trump’s Big Oil Era Read More »

By Laila Kearney HOUSTON, March 12 (Reuters) – U.S. wind and solar development still has significant room for expansion to power data centers, particularly in the Midwest wind corridor and sunny southwest, Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis told Reuters at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston on Wednesday. The quick proliferation of Big …

US Wind and Solar Still Have Room to Grow for Data Centers, Microsoft VP Says Read More »

Developers fear the US president may seek to block solar and wind projects. Renewable-energy developers knew US President Donald Trump preferred oil and gas to solar and wind — and long opposed offshore turbines. But they were hoping he wouldn’t throw roadblocks in front of other clean-power projects. After the last week, they’re not so …

Trump’s Renewables Permit Flip-Flop Unsettles Sector Read More »