The Modest Proposal

Climate change and poverty have not gone away An economic and political system that does not deliver for most citizens is one that is not sustainable in the long run Joseph Stiglitz guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 January 2013 10.19 EST A colony of king penguins and an elephant seal on Possession Island. Because we have been so slow to respond to climate change, achieving the targeted limit of a 2C rise in global temperature will require sharp reductions in emissions in the future. Photograph: Marcel Mochet/AFP/Getty Images In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore … Continue reading this post →

The Economic Impact of Wind Energy | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural. The Economic Impact of Wind Energy There are 47,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity installed in the U.S. The authors of a new study say that for each megawatt of wind capacity, a county gains half a job and just over $11,000 in total personal income. This is the wind energy farm in Roscoe, Texas, where 627 wind turbines can churn out as much as 781.5 megawatts of power. A new study finds that for every megawatt of wind capacity installed in a county, half a job … Continue reading this post →

(Originally posted at www.mbcdfw.com) Winter Wind Credited With Record Power Generation | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said winter winds that brought low temperatures also contributed to a wind power generation record. At 3 p.m. Christmas Day, 8,638 megawatts of power was provided by Texas wind farms.  ERCOT said 6,600 mw were created in West Texas windfarms and another 1,600 were created along the Texas coast. “This output represented nearly 26 percent of system load in ERCOT at the time. This new record is 117 MW higher than the previous 8,521 MW record set on … Continue reading this post →

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Andy Bowman, the President of my company.   Time for Texas’ leaders to support important wind-power tax credit.    What if our leaders spent $7 billion on a new superhighway that would better connect key parts of Texas to create trade, jobs, investment and tax revenue — but then decided, after all the money was committed and the highway had been built, to take steps to make sure it wouldn’t be used? Most people would say that makes no sense at all.    But that is exactly what is happening with Texas’ new electricity transmission … Continue reading this post →