Category: Environment & Energy

In a provocative article in Bloomberg Opinion today, writer Noah Smith asks will oil be supplanted by electrification. The title, The Oil Age is Coming to a Close recalls similar thinking in the 2005-2007 era when many experts thought that a lack of oil...

In late 2018 I spoke on exponential energy and the urgency of change to the Jacksonville Infrastructure Innovation summit. You can see a highlight video here. I spoke about the exponential growth in the past few years of renewable sources of electricity from solar...

Imagine fighting a fire to save a town, in 110 degree F temperatures. This is Redding, California. Now I have been through Redding many times, often in 100F plus temperatures, so the heat is not unusual. But, like last year, when fire strikes whether...

In case you missed the news, on April 9, 2018, the tech giant Apple “announced that all of its retail stores, data centers and corporate offices now run on 100% clean energy. The milestone includes facilities in 43 countries, such as the US, UK,...

Imagine the city of tomorrow, not the distant future but a decade or two from now. That city could, if we choose, be smart, connected, solar, sustainable. In fact it could be beyond sustainable. This was the assignment I took from First Utility in...