Monthly Archives: July 2011
The cheapest, cleanest electron is the one you do not use. I applaud Mayor Bloomberg’s study of the impacts of shutting Indian Point’s 2 nuclear reactors. But reporting on such work is fatally incomplete without the including of the positive impact of improving energy efficiency in our buildings. Real energy efficiency in metropolitan New York can reduce electric demand equal to 25% of the current output of Indian Point. That should be the first place [...]
