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What’s another $4 billion amongst friends?

Enviromental Defense

If we assume the same price, but that these plants operate for 13 years (from 2027 to 2040), that’s another $3.2 Meanwhile, solar power is the cheapest form of new electricity generation anywhere in the world, Ontario included. We must tell Ontario to take its foot off the gas and go with renewable energy instead.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. Iceland also has geothermal energy. The Olympic flame is already burning it.

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Hillary Clinton’s Climate Change Plan

Columbia Climate Law

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. The second component of Clinton’s plan is a “Clean Energy Challenge.”