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In The Dark: The Scapegoating Of Renewables After Grid Failures, Teddy Gonzalez, Jillian Knox
In The Dark: The Scapegoating Of Renewables After Grid Failures, Teddy Gonzalez, Jillian Knox
Natural Resources Journal
Renewable energy is increasingly scapegoated as the primary cause of weather-related power outages and other grid failures, despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Disinformation campaigns framing renewables as unreliable are driven by two factors: the increasing frequency of power outages and the growing pressures facing fossil fuel energy stakeholders. Over the past decade, power outages in the United States have doubled, primarily due to increased extreme weather, aging energy infrastructure, and a rapidly changing resource mix. At the same time, the energy transition is placing unprecedented competitive pressure on the coal and gas industry and on the nation’s utilities. These …
Crystal Gazing: Foretelling The Next Decade In Oil And Gas Law, Joseph A. Schremmer
Crystal Gazing: Foretelling The Next Decade In Oil And Gas Law, Joseph A. Schremmer
Faculty Scholarship
This chapter attempts to predict the major issues oil and gas law will encounter in the 2020s. Yet even before the first draft could be completed, the industry landscape changed unexpectedly. As this chapter goes to press, the global and domestic economies are just starting to emerge from a sharp downturn brought on by the outbreak of COVID-19. Oil and natural gas prices collapsed to levels not seen in decades. Against this unforeseen backdrop, the legal changes facing oil and gas development in the United States look somewhat different. But one element of our new reality is consistent with this …
Economic Analysis Of Infrastructure Investment And Irrigation Budget Issues In A Southwestern U.S. Water Utility, Heidi Pitts
Economic Analysis Of Infrastructure Investment And Irrigation Budget Issues In A Southwestern U.S. Water Utility, Heidi Pitts
Economics ETDs
The three chapters of this dissertation investigate two policy issues faced by water utilities: infrastructure investment and water budget programs. Water utilities have infrastructure that is deteriorating at an increasing rate, necessitating higher rates of investment from ratepayers. At the same time utilities must improve their management of existing water supplies in order to postpone the need to procure water supplies with a higher marginal cost. Water budgets are a way to manage scarce water resources more efficiently. The first chapter focuses on customer preferences for infrastructure investments. Individuals are willing-to-pay to have fewer outages at home, shorter average outage …
Day-Ahead Solar Resource Prediction Method Using Weather Forecasts For Peak Shaving, Wesley Greenwood
Day-Ahead Solar Resource Prediction Method Using Weather Forecasts For Peak Shaving, Wesley Greenwood
Mechanical Engineering ETDs
Due to recent concerns about energy sustainability, solar power is becoming more prevalent in distributed power generation. There are still obstacles which need to be addressed before solar power can be provided at the level of reliability that utilities require. Some of these issues can be mitigated with strategic use of energy storage. In the case of load shifting, energy storage can be used to supply solar energy during a time of day when utility customer's demand is highest, thus providing partial peak load burden relief or peak shaving. Because solar resource availability is intermittent due to clouds and other …
Indigenous Communities In Panama Commemorate March Against Open-Pit Mining In Which Two Protestors Were Killed, Louisa Reynolds
Indigenous Communities In Panama Commemorate March Against Open-Pit Mining In Which Two Protestors Were Killed, Louisa Reynolds
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
This article outlines a commemorative anti-mining march in Panama that took place early February 2013. The march marked the one year anniversary of Ngãbe Buglé indigenous community protests against the elimination of an article in a mining bill that outlawed mineral extraction on the Ngãbe Buglé reservation. They were also protesting the construction of the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project without an environmental impact assessment and prior consultation (as stipulated in ILO Convention 169). The article examines the Martinelli government's response to the protests, in addition to their failure to consult with the indigenous community on either of the projects.
Increasingly Critical Situation For Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, José Pedro Martins
Increasingly Critical Situation For Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, José Pedro Martins
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
This articles discusses the critical developments with regards to the situation of Brazil's indigenous peoples. The article outlines recent events, such as the razing of a Rio de Janeiro building that house indigenous families; the death of three indigenous children as a result of becoming stranded in poor urban living condition; and threats of collective suicide as an alternative to being driven off their ancestral lands. The article describes in-depth the issue of suicide within indigenous communities, also documenting the support and solidarity they have received from various Brazilian religious agencies and figures--namely, Catholic bishops.
First Presidential Debate Marked By Attacks On Front-Runner Enrique Peña Nieto, Carlos Navarro
First Presidential Debate Marked By Attacks On Front-Runner Enrique Peña Nieto, Carlos Navarro
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
The four candidates seeking to become the next president of Mexico squared off in an uninspiring and sometimes confusing debate marked by attacks and disqualifications. "Three of the four candidates seeking the presidency in the July 1 election interacted in a disorderly and perhaps schizophrenic manner," said the Coahuilabased daily newspaper Vanguardia. "They mixed criticisms with promises that have already been heard for the last few months in advertisements and interviews." However, Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, candidate of the PANAL party, stood out from the other three candidates, specifically on the topic of renewable energy policy.
Nicaragua, A Potential Alternative-Energy Hotspot, Noticen Writers
Nicaragua, A Potential Alternative-Energy Hotspot, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
As the price of oil bulged beyond the US$50 per barrel mark for the first time in 2005, Nicaragua again found itself lost in a conundrum. With its geothermal, hydroelectric, and wind resources, the country is a potential generator of renewable, nonpolluting energy economically within reach of every citizen. But Nicaragua also lacks the means to motivate that kind of development and, as a result, has spent so much of its meager treasure on imported oil that it plunges ever more deeply into crippling debt.
Debacle In The Desert: Accident Highlights Chile's Energy Problems, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar
Debacle In The Desert: Accident Highlights Chile's Energy Problems, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
A high-profile mishap involving an experimental electricity project near one of Chile's top tourist attractions has exposed serious shortcomings in the country's laissez-faire approach to energy production. Last year environmental authorities in Region II, an area of northern Chile that contains the high-plains Atacama desert, gave energy company Geotermica del Norte (GDN) permission to conduct exploratory drilling on what promised to be the country's first geothermal electricity plant. Geothermal facilities harness energy from underground hot springs (steam) to push conventional turbines. Considered a renewable and environmentally friendly energy source, the technique is used in more than 20 countries worldwide but …
Consumer Willingness To Pay For Water Conservation In The Framework Of Renewable Energy Projects, Amber Riter
Consumer Willingness To Pay For Water Conservation In The Framework Of Renewable Energy Projects, Amber Riter
Economics ETDs
This research focuses on consumer valuation of the benefits associated with renewable electricity generation, specifically for water conservation. Previous contingent valuation studies in this area conclude that consumers are willing to pay for these benefits, but do not explicitly consider the environmental benefit of water conservation. The impact of this benefit is tested for a unique sample of New Mexican consumers by performing a split-sample study with a treatment variation in the benefit related information given to the respondent. The study is performed using the Internet survey mode for a sample population of 2000 University and University Hospital Staff. A …
Clean But Not Green: Geothermal Developers In Costa Rica At Odds With Environmentalists, Noticen Writers
Clean But Not Green: Geothermal Developers In Costa Rica At Odds With Environmentalists, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
Costa Rica leads Central America in the production of wind and geothermal energy and has been lauded for its progress in renewable power projects while others flounder. A new report prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), A Blueprint for Green Energy in the Americas 2009, faulted Latin America in general for governmental failure to provide the regulatory frameworks and supportive policies needed to field renewable projects, and for reluctance to take risks in the energy sectors because of the lack of development. Only Costa Rica stood out as an exception on the isthmus and, in the hemisphere, was joined …
Chanber Of Deputies Approves Initiative To Promote Ethanol Industry In Mexico, Noticen Writers
Chanber Of Deputies Approves Initiative To Promote Ethanol Industry In Mexico, Noticen Writers
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
In late April, the Chamber of Deputies approved legislation to promote the creation of an ethanol industry in Mexico, but critics are concerned about repercussions on the country's corn and sugarcane production. The ethanol provision in the bioenergy law (Ley de Promocion y Desarrollo de los Bioenergeticos), approved primarily with the support of the governing conservative Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), garnered 243 votes. All other parties, including the environmentally oriented Partido Verde Ecologista Mexicano (PVEM) and the center-left Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD), opposed the initiative but obtained only 127 votes. The …