18
Jun
Green Juice NYC Mayoral Endorsement
How do the mayoral frontrunners stack up on the pressing issue of climate change?
5 min read
Jon
11
Jun
Before you REC yourself...
Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, might be your best bet to support clean energy projects. But are RECs worth paying extra? Are they legit? And are they even useful? Let's find out.
12 min read
04
Jun
How to decode your utility bill
Utility bills are runic texts, impossible to parse without insider knowledge or a well-written blog post. If you've never even really looked at your electric bill, worry not. We can dissect mine together.
10 min read
28
May
The surprising, infuriating way electric utilities make money
It sounds ridiculous, but most electric utility companies don't make money selling you electricity. In fact, many of them don't even produce their own electricity. So what do they do? And how do they end up making millions of dollars in profits every year?
8 min read
21
May
Geothermal gone wild (part 3)
This week: four more advanced geothermal energy companies vying to save the world from within. Plus, answers to all your questions!
9 min read
14
May
Enhanced geothermal: deeper, faster, more... sideways? (part 2)
Imagine, if you will, a seven-layer dip.
11 min read
07
May
Geothermal energy: the heat beneath our feet
There's enough naturally occurring heat deep within the Earth to power our planet many times over. This is the story of how it got there and how we're gonna get to it.
9 min read
30
Apr
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics (part 3)
We're here to get a better feel for how many renewables we need to build, how many we've built already, and how we might compare the relative value of different power producers.
8 min read
23
Apr
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics (part 2)
The average American household uses about 30 kilowatt-hours over the course of a day. If we only had 30 states, I’d have a great mnemonic device for remembering that.
6 min read
16
Apr
Mega-wut? Making sense of energy metrics
When I first started learning about clean energy, I struggled to contextualize the many numbers, units of measurement, and abbreviations that get thrown around. This is my attempt to make it easier for you than it was for me.
6 min read