The east end of Copenhagen’s Amager island is home to incredible public spaces and serves as a major green energy hub for the region.
With wind farms, a high-tech waste-to-energy plant, a biogas fueling station, and nature park, the region pulls together renewables, nature, and sustainable transportation in a highly visible and accessible way.
This post documents a leisurely cycle trip throughout the northeastern edge of Amager.
Renewable portfolio standards are an effective and popular way of promoting the uptake of renewable energy in a region. Basically, they mandate that a certain portion of a jurisdiction’s electricity must come from renewable sources. But which provinces in Canada have a renewable portfolio standard? Continue reading…
Denmark is a world leader in the development of renewables, but are the Danes getting good bang for the buck as they pay some of the world’s highest rates for electricity? Does the transition to clean power have any traction? Continue reading…
Why would any rational person or group actively lobby against a project that generates clean electricity from thin air while creating jobs and sending cheques to landowners and municipalities?
That’s a great question. Continue reading…
Policy-makers talk carbon pricing. Industry balks and threatens costs will be passed on to consumers. Media posts interview with retired grandmother filling up Toyota Corolla at the pump. Elected officials run for the hills. But people aren’t stupid, and they will accept short-term costs for long-term gains.
When governments tell their utilities to start providing renewable energy over coal and gas-fired electricity it’s a big deal. While it’s very much in fashion for politicians to legislate renewable energy portfolio standards, there’s a new player in town. You. Citizens are behind a number of ballot initiatives that are pushing jurisdictions towards clean energy. But where have these measures succeeded and failed? What can we learn?