{"id":12532,"date":"2019-12-31T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12532"},"modified":"2019-12-31T00:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:43:21","slug":"column-highlights-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/31\/column-highlights-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Column Highlights Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing from last week\u2019s Coffee Chats column\u2019s year-end review, here are some positive soundbites from my perspective as a longtime clean-energy advocate in Idaho and clean-tech investor, this past year:<\/em><\/p>\n

Solar-generated electrical power costs have come down so dramatically that an average homeowner could save $400-$600 per year from a community solar project.<\/p>\n

If Blaine County built its own community solar project, it could produce enough power for the county\u2019s own annual $117,000 electricity bill on a four-acre site as well as create savings for other homeowner subscribers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2018, wind energy contributed 6.5 percent of the nation\u2019s electricity supply\u2026 and more than 30 percent in three states.\u201d DOE<\/p>\n

\u201cScotland is now generating so much wind energy, it could power two Scotlands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Idaho has tremendous naturally-occurring wind resources for wind farms.<\/p>\n

Solar and wind energy jobs are among the fastest-growing category of jobs in America.<\/p>\n

In the 19 years I have been investing in clean-energy technology, I have seen installations of clean-energy technology exponentially increase and costs dramatically fall.<\/p>\n

Solar power that cost $350 per megawatt hour in 2009 dropped to $50 per megawatt hour by 2017, and now, in 2019, is at $22 per megawatt hour.<\/p>\n

There is going to be 36 gigawatts of battery energy storage installed by 2025, from practically zero installations in 2012. Nevada alone is primed for up to a gigawatt of energy storage by 2030 because it will save money for ratepayers as the most cost-effective solution; Warren Buffet and his NV Energy have signed contracts to provide a bunch of this battery storage.<\/p>\n

The world order is going to change when most countries can produce their own power through renewables. There won\u2019t need to be wars fought for stockpiles of oil.<\/p>\n

In Africa, India and other emerging countries, billions of people have gotten access to energy for the first time through solar panels on their roofs, solar cook stoves and lanterns, and solar-powered well-water pumps.<\/p>\n

Renewable energy technologies have only received $5.93 billion of federal subsidies (like tax credits) since 1994-2009. (Oil & Gas received $446.96 billion of federal subsidies 1918-2009; Nuclear $185.38 billion 1947-2009. Oil & Gas & Nuclear continue to receive $52-$67 billion each year today.)<\/p>\n

Saving energy is patriotic! To plant the Victory Gardens of 2020, we can reduce our dependence on oil from foreign countries that may not share our values by changing a light bulb to a higher efficiency one, or putting solar on our roof, or installing more insulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from last week\u2019s Coffee Chats column\u2019s year-end review, here are some positive soundbites from my perspective as a longtime clean-energy advocate in Idaho and clean-tech investor, this past year: Solar-generated electrical power costs have come down so dramatically that an average homeowner could save $400-$600 per year from a community solar project. If Blaine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coffee-chats-with-kiki","category-sponsored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}