Clean Green Energy Continues To Grow

[Dan Moadus]

Believe me, no one would be happier to see cost effective renewable energy than me. You would have to be fool not to welcome that development. Can you imagine what it would be like to be free of our dependency on countries that are not friends of ours.  I also support the government sponsoring and supporting the research necessary to bring this about. What I do not support, and oppose is people trying to force it's use before it is viable, which is what you spent half your life on. And oh........Happy New Year

[irishbobcat]

Dan, you are so wrong and blind....just like you were regarding net profits for oil companies......

Finally, people are waking up to the fact that clean energy is becoming a more viable product

with more research and development....

and you, being an iron-lung coal lover can stand that fact......

learn to live with it buddy......and have a very Happy New Green Year!!!!! ha ha ha!

[Dan Moadus]

Of course natural gas and renewable's use will increase in the making of electricity. We've found a lot more natural gas, the environmental weanies (with emphasis on mental) have pestered the coal industry almost to death, and have browbeaten legislators to mandate certain percentages of wind and solar power be used. You can bet, use of renewable energy sources wouldn't even be on the charts if it hadn't been mandated and subsidized. In short, the weanies have done nothing but raise the cost of electricity.

[irishbobcat]

Clean Green Energy Continues To Grow

The amount of coal used to produce electricity falls more than 50 percent. Natural gas nearly doubles its share, becoming the main fuel to generate power.

And the amount of renewables, including wind and hydropower, climbs more than 50 percent, producing nearly as much power as coal.

These aren't the musings of a hopeful environmentalist. Instead, they're part of Black & Veatch's forecast for the country's electric industry and North American power generation through 2035.

Black & Veatch, a global engineering and consulting firm based in Overland Park, recently presented that outlook to its clients, who include electric utilities.

The forecast joins other government and private outlooks that differ in some respects but generally agree that a transformation in energy markets is ahead. Climate policies, growing natural-gas supplies and less-developed countries' appetite for more energy will be felt.

The International Energy Agency predicts that nearly all the additional energy the world uses in the next 25 years will go to meet demand in China and other emerging countries. Their rising energy use already is one factor pushing up world oil and fuel prices, a trend that's expected to continue.

The U.S. will increasingly find itself in a secondary role with at most modest increases in energy demand. But stable demand won't mean the domestic supply picture stays the same — coal will decline, and natural gas and renewables will rise.