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May
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Stan Wise says that his state simply does not have the renewable resources to meet proposed standards put forth by President Obama. He says that Georgia would have to outsource green energy, costing the state and its taxpayers billions of dollars and raise electricity bills by as much as 25 percent.
In speaking to Congress in February, Wise claimed that set standards would only cost Southern states “jobs, growth, and industry.” The proposed goals would require the entire country to get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. This would be accomplished either through production of power or purchase of that power from elsewhere. Obama’s plan would also institute a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emitting power plants, most notably coal-fired plants. Now guess where Georgia gets the vast amount of its energy.
Roughly three-quarters of Georgia’s energy comes from coal, with the remainder taken from gas or nuclear plants. Only a very small fraction comes from renewable sources. Stan Wise claims that the state does not have the resources of Plains states with their wind or Southwestern states with their solar potential.
Environmental groups say that Georgia has plenty of potential and only a lack of effort and an attachment to the coal and nuclear industries stands in their way. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy claims that Georgia could easily meet proposed energy goals with a combination of biomass, wind , solar , geothermal and tidal energy resources. In addition, the Union of Concerned Scientists recently noted that Georgia alone could create nearly 4,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in investments by 2030 if it simply committed itself to renewable resources. That study also pointed out that Georgia is already exporting money for energy anyway — roughly $1.6 billion to import coal in 2005 alone.
Instead, Wise and other state officials want renewable energy legislation revised to include nuclear power as well. In fact Georgia Power, the state’s largest utility, is awaiting approval on two more nuclear plants even as the Congressional debate heats up — perhaps a reason for Wise’s apparent sense of urgency.
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May
Solar Energy in People
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Did you ever notice that you never see angry people on the beach, in boats, or at the poolside? The sun is an amazing thing. I didn’t really notice it, but over the winter I became a virtual hermit. I say “virtual” not because I am almost a hermit – I’m a total hermit, but I’m living totally in the virtual world, on my computer just about 24/7. I blame the sun – haven’t seen it in months. I didn’t realize how much I’d missed it until some freak of nature occurred a week ago and we had several days of sunny 70-degree weather in a row. It was amazing. I itched to detach myself from my desk. I ached to be outside – doing anything, just to be in the glorious glow of the sun’s rays.
And I did just that. I started gathering materials for my garden, I washed my truck (the poor mud-encrusted SUV that hauls my children and me around come rain or shine), I hiked around my 20 acres just looking at nature, and amazingly I still had plenty of time for my computer work. It was like just having sunshine in my day gave me extra energy and more hours.
Admittedly, I’m a bit of a nature freak – bit of a contrast for a girl who spends all her time on a computer, I know, but I really do believe in the healing powers of nature. When my kids were little I remember hearing a little tidbit of trivia on the radio that just four minutes a day spent out in the sunshine could give your body the vitamin D it needs. Just four minutes – who can’t afford that? I’ve since read that it’s more like 10 minutes . Still, not a huge investment of your time for amazing natural benefits.
Energy from the sun is not just a way to gain light and heat in your home or to lasso energy from for your solar panels to run your appliances. Green starts in the heart. The sun’s energy is so powerful that it can protect you from all sorts of diseases, ailments, and syndromes. Not only can it actually give your metabolism a boost, the vitamin D your body absorbs by being exposed to the sun can help prevent heart disease, osteoporosis, breast, prostate, and colon cancer, depression, insomnia, and an overactive immune system.
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May
The State of Solar States
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These are very active times for the solar industry. With layoffs here and jobs added there, some states are out of funding, even while federal funding increases. There is enough solar news going round to fill a hundred newspapers twice over. At the heart of the issue are U.S. states, which have long been the main catalyst behind the U.S. solar industry, many which now face dire economic straits.
So with times at their hardest (we hope) and renewable energy seen as a potential gift horse for a struggling economy, many states are competing for attention in the burgeoning solar industry. We begin in the East:
- In Massachussetts , hundreds of solar, wind, and other renewable energy projects are vying for the state’s alloted federal stimulus funds.
- New York utility Con Edison is seeking state approval for a pilot program that would put 12 megawatts of solar electricity on commercial and residential rooftops throughout its service area.
- New Jersey’s most visually stimulating and power consuming city — Atlantic City — will be the location of the nation’s largest single rooftop solar electric system. It will provide more than a quarter of the power for Atlantic City’s new convention center.
- Tennessee is hoping to gain some more recognition in the solar industry by opening a new solar institute to research and develop new solar energy technologies and programs.
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