Category: Renewable Energy

Groups call out Entergy CEO for gaslighting New Orleans

10/7/2019

Leo Denault is under fire for "sustainability" summit used to promote expensive, hazardous nuclear energy and polluting gas plant over resident-controlled solar power.

Monday, October 7, 2019 @ 12:30pm
At the Civic Theater, 510 O'Keefe Ave, New Orleans

WHO: Community leaders working for an affordable, renewable, healthy energy future in New Orleans. Residents taking a stand against Entergy's ongoing attempts raise New Orleans' electricity bills and push through an unnecessary, costly and polluting gas plant. Solar energy workers helping residents to generate their own electricity and weatherize homes.

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Council utility advisors recommend mandating net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

9/4/2019

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Article by Michael Isaac Stein
Originally published on The Lens

In a report issued this week, the New Orleans City Council’s utility advisors are recommending that the city require electric and gas utility Entergy New Orleans to attain net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century — a goal consistent with steps deemed necessary by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming above 1.5 degrees celsius.

The report cited “the unique vulnerability of New Orleans to the devastating consequences of climate change and the urgent need for decarbonization to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.”

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This Crazy Trick Could Help New Orleans Utility Customers Save Money

6/5/2019

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Article by Joseph Daniel, Senior Energy Analyst
Originally published on Union of Concerned Scientists

Over the past year or so, a lot of states with renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have opted to double down on that policy mechanism to set a path to 100% clean electricity. However, most jurisdictions in the deep south have been reticent to pass such policies. That might change later this year, as the City of New Orleans considers passing an RPS. And that’s the crazy trick that could save customers money. Passing an RPS.

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Groups call out Entergy CEO for gaslighting New Orleans

Council utility advisors recommend mandating net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

This Crazy Trick Could Help New Orleans Utility Customers Save Money

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