Governor Brown wades into California cap-and-trade debate with new draft proposals

June 28, 2017

Governor Jerry Brown is drafting proposals for extending California’s cap-and-trade programme, attempting to gain a two-thirds majority vote while assuaging industry and environmental campaigners. “The outlines of the deal… sound very positive, and will leave CARB significant scope to continue to improve the programme over time,” said Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch.

Hal Harvey’s Insights and Updates – Offshore wind: The next big thing in clean energy

June 28, 2017

Offshore wind, in contrast to the widespread cost declines and capacity additions we’ve seen with onshore wind and solar PV, has historically been more of a ‘boutique’ resource—a great idea in theory, but still expensive and concentrated in certain parts of the world. That is now changing, as offshore wind becomes mainstream for three reasons: location, advancing technology, and declining price.