{"id":76054,"date":"2016-07-04T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76054"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:25:27","slug":"top-5-green-energy-good-news-stories-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/top-5-green-energy-good-news-stories-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/juan-cole.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/juan-cole-150x138.jpeg\" alt=\"juan-cole\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>3 Jul 2016 &#8211; <\/em>Solar power is poised to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-22\/solar-power-to-grow-sixfold-as-sun-becoming-cheapest-resource\" >grow 6-fold by 2030<\/a> and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the United Arab Emirates has just <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2016\/06\/30\/masdar-consortium-granted-dubais-800-mw-solar-power-contract\/\" >accepted a bid from Masdar to build a solar electricity generating<\/a> farm for 2.99\u00a2\/kWh. Coal is typically 5 cents a kilowatt hour, and this is less. Coal, game over.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jun\/20\/china-to-generate-a-quarter-of-electricity-from-wind-power-by-2030\" >China now plans to get between 1\/4 and 1\/3<\/a> of it electricity from wind turbines by 2030. Although 2030 sounds far away, it is as near to us as 2002\u2013 the year that Nelly complained \u2018It\u2019s getting hot in her\u2019 [that\u2019s not a typo) and Pink wanted to \u2018Get this Party Started,\u2019 and Condi Rice warned on Iraq that we didn\u2019t want the smoking gun on its alleged WMD to be a mushroom cloud. China currently gets 70% of its electricity from coal, which is very, very bad for the earth and for our children and grandchildren. But this goal shows the PolitBuro is extremely serious about abandoning coal. Last year China reached 145 gigawatts of wind energy capacity. Coal is dead man walking.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/worlds-biggest-wind-power-turbine-unveiled-giant-offshore-renewable-energy-project-1567711\" >The world\u2019s largest wind turbine is being built for an offshore facility<\/a> in Europe. This single tower can provide electricity to 10,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Solar is now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/energy\/power\/solar-power-fastest-growing-new-energy-source-in-india-mercom\/articleshow\/52639406.cms\" >the fastest-growing new energy business in India.<\/a> India now has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/energy\/power\/solar-power-fastest-growing-new-energy-source-in-india-mercom\/articleshow\/52639406.cms\" >7.5 gigawatts <\/a>of solar power and put in 2.2 gigawatts so far just this year. The World Bank is lending India $1 bn. for solar projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Related video added by Juan Cole:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DD: \u201cWorld Bank inks pact on solar energy with India\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C02JoNZ4p48<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Juan Ricardo Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2016\/07\/green-energy-stories-today.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 juancole.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Jul 2016 &#8211; Solar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}