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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Grid experts discuss why the grid is broken and how to fix it
Next up, “A Brilliant Energy Grid for North America.” Geek heaven! Here’s the line-up: California Energy Commission, Merwin Brown, Director of Transmission Research, PIER (moderator) Modern Grid Initiative, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Steve Pullins, Team Leader, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Clark Gellings, VP of Technology Innovation IBM, Ron Ambrosio, Global Research Leader — Energy […]
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Innovation from the nation’s most progressive electricity providers
First up today, a session on utilities: "Big Energy, Big Vision — Utilities Making the Climate Commitment." We’re starting off with a presentation from Janice Berman of PG&E, a northern California utility that’s way, way ahead of the pack on energy policy. Here’s an abridged list of what they’re doing: Funding renewables generation via solar, […]
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Conservative economists agree: Taxes rule!
Stalwart Republican, former Bush advisor, and Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw makes the case for the carbon tax. He also thinks a carbon tax is the most achievable global policy: A global carbon tax would be easier to negotiate. All governments require revenue for public purposes. The world’s nations could agree to use a carbon […]
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Talking to Bill Scher
I was on Bill Scher’s radio program on Saturday for about 20 minutes. It was broadcast on WHMP-AM in western Mass.; you can listen to the podcast here. Or if you like, you can watch Bill talking to me: One amendment, for those who actually listen to the whole thing: I praised renewable portfolio standards […]
