Nuclear Energy: Now or Never
By Valerie Gardner, Managing Partner UC Berkeley students’ annual Energy Summit addresses the world’s energy and resource challenges. This year’s conference included a panel titled “Nuclear Energy: Now or Never.”
Category: Macro Energy Systems
The A, B, and especially C’s of ESG
By Valerie Gardner, Managing Partner ESG investing is the largest and most profound global trend happening in the capital markets. Its popularity points to the global recognition that investors should
The costs of closing nuclear plants during a climate battle
Following the release on Nov. 8, 2021 by Stanford University and MIT experts of an independently funded assessment of the costs to California of the 2018 decision to prematurely close
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Clean Firm Power is the Key to California’s Carbon-Free Energy Future
California faces a very tough choice. Politicians and many environmental advocates would like to solve the need to eliminate emissions by building renewables as much as possible, and allowing natural
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Birth of a new discipline, needed to address climate change
Stanford University announced, in a webinar hosted on September 28th, 2020 their intent to form a new interdisciplinary academic area called Macro Energy Systems. The aim of Macro-Energy Systems is
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