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  • Solar Generation May Sideline Biomass Heating

    [Note: this arti­cle is writ­ten by long-time wood stove cheer­leader, John Ack­er­ly.  It’s nice to see him admit­ting that his wood-burn­ing dreams are about to be dashed by solar pow­er.  Ener­gy Jus­tice does not sup­port com­bus­tion sources for heat­ing, since non-burn alter­na­tives exist, and since there are many pol­lu­tion and health prob­lems relat­ing to wood stoves.]…

  • New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels

    - by Justin Gillis, Jan­u­ary 28, 2015, New York Times West­ern gov­ern­ments have made a wrong turn in ener­gy pol­i­cy by sup­port­ing the large-scale con­ver­sion of plants into fuel and should recon­sid­er that strat­e­gy, accord­ing to a new report from a promi­nent envi­ron­men­tal think tank. Turn­ing plant mat­ter into liq­uid fuel or elec­tric­i­ty is so inef­fi­cient that the approach is…

  • Dirt Cheap Clean Energy? | January issue of Energy Justice Now

    Just in time, the Jan­u­ary issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now — the nation­al forum for the Dirty Ener­gy Resis­tance — is here! Inside this issue: Dirt Cheap Clean Energy - Dirt Cheap Clean Energy -  Ener­gy Stor­age and Solar Inspir­ing Cus­tomers to Drop Utilities? -  Destruc­tion of Demand: How to Shrink Our Ener­gy Footprint …and more! Please share the Jan­u­ary 2015 issue of Ener­gy Jus­tice Now with…

  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    - by Lisa Cohn, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2014, Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Markets To hear the Rocky Moun­tain Insti­tute tell the sto­ry, it’s not a ques­tion of whether util­i­ty cus­tomers will start defect­ing from their util­i­ties in favor of off-grid solu­tions that involve ener­gy stor­age and solar ener­gy. It’s a ques­tion of when. Truth is, it’s already hap­pen­ing in Hawaii—where…

  • Solar Power Heats 90% of Community’s Homes…in Canada

    - Drake Land­ing Solar Community The Drake Land­ing Solar Com­mu­ni­ty (DLSC) is a mas­ter planned neigh­bour­hood in the Town of Oko­toks, Alber­ta, Cana­da that has suc­cess­ful­ly inte­grat­ed Cana­di­an ener­gy effi­cient tech­nolo­gies with a renew­able, unlim­it­ed ener­gy source — the sun. The first of its kind in North Amer­i­ca, DLSC is heat­ed by a dis­trict sys­tem designed to…

  • Biomass Growth Capacity Drops in US

    - May 27, 2014, Bioen­er­gy Insight Five new bio­mass plants with a total gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of 10MW came online in the US last month, accord­ing to the Ener­gy Infra­struc­ture Update for April, pub­lished by the Fed­er­al Ener­gy Reg­u­la­to­ry Com­mis­sion (FERC). Since the start of 2014, 12 bio­mass-fired facil­i­ties pro­duc­ing a total 20MW of renew­able ener­gy have…