Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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6 charts that show renewable energy is getting cheaper
The latest numbers on electricity costs show that various forms of renewable energy are already competitive with fossil fuels, with costs expected to continue falling.
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Solving climate change will be difficult but worth it
Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.
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Utility bosses see change coming, look to clean and distributed energy
A survey of utility execs also finds that a majority of them support Obama's power-plant rules or think they should be strengthened.
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19 tweets that explain how we’re stifling electricity innovation
A rant about the abysmal state of innovation and progress in the U.S. electricity sector.
