Climate change is an issue that requires global attention and co-operation. As climate science develops an understanding of changes to the future climate state, policy makers and engineering project planners beg to know what claims can be made on the subject with a reasonable level of...

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

Wind rights and access to natural wind flow raise important legal issues, policy questions, opportunities, and financial risks for landowners, their neighbors, and for wind facility developers. This is particularly evident with respect to the phenomenon called wake effect (downwind effect) that...

Using a large sample of 15-minute data for the 6-year period of 2016-2021, we analyse solar generation’s (SG’s) and wind generation’s (WG’s) per MWh revenues (“revenues” for short hereafter) in the renewable regions of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). We find that...