Paul Gipe
is an author, advocate, and analyst of the renewable energy industry. He has written extensively about the subject for the past four decades, receiving numerous awards for his efforts. Gipe has lectured before groups from Patagonia to Puglia, from Tasmania to Toronto, and from Halifax to Husum. He has spoken to audiences as large as 10,000 and as small as a private presentation for Vice President Al Gore. Gipe is well known for his frank appraisal of the promise and pitfalls of wind energy, including his stinging critiques of Internet wonders and the hustlers and charlatans who promote them. He led the campaign to adapt electricity feed laws to the North American market–the same policy that has stirred a renewable energy revolution in Germany.
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2027 Bolt Average Charging Rate 1,500 Mile Road Trip
We completed another 1,500-mile road trip this time to Crater Lake and Lassen National Parks. We’ve taken this route north on I-5 before and we now have our preferred stops and know where we want to take breaks either for coffee or for lunch. The new Bolt and the plethora …
The short answer is there hasn’t been any degradation of the traction battery of our 2027 Bolt after nearly 12,000 miles. State-of-Health is still showing 100% and Car Scanner ELM OBD2 app is still showing 70.2 kWh of battery capacity. The app’s measure of capacity has held remarkably steady, bouncing …
RMI, formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute, in a new report comparing the carbon dioxide emissions from EVs and Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles found–once again–that EVs are superior. RMI compared the emissions from a Chevy Equinox and that from the average ICE vehicles in the US. As many others have …
Alexander Jacob reports in an annual analysis of Germany’s burgeoning balcony solar market that the total number of systems registered has topped 1.5 million. Balcony solar is now capable of generating more than one terawatt-hours of electricity per year or about 1.1% of the solar electricity produced in Germany. Also …
After more than six months of driving the 2027 Bolt, I feel comfortable with the car and have made all the adjustments necessary for the car to work the way I want it to. The software that controls the interface between the driver and the vehicle in modern cars is …
In what was once unthinkable, renewable energy from sun, wind, water, and biomass has generated 59.1 percent of German electricity during the first half of 2026. Renewables generated 136 TWh of the 221 TWh generated in Germany during the period. Wind turbines generated nearly 68 TWh, and solar generated 41 …
Balcony solar, or plug-in solar for us Yankees, may actually become a thing in California. The state legislature passed plug-in solar legislation this August and sent the law onto Governor Newsom for his signature. (See California Legislature passes balcony solar bill.) There’s no word from Newsom’s office on whether he will …
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Wind turbine costs decline and wind development pipelines expand in Europe
A changing lifestyle had the result of making me drive more miles that I’ve ever done before. With a couple of routes result in my car consuming one to two gallons of fuel, I found myself pealing out the twenties like there was no tomorrow. The costs were mounting. I …
Moscow faces a huge decommissioning bill at home even as it expands its nuclear industry abroad.
The question is not who first generated electricity with wind, nor who first produced wind turbines in series. Companies such as Jacobs and Hütter had already done so, mainly for off-grid applications. The more interesting question is: Who built the first commercially series-produced wind turbine specifically designed for direct parallel operation with a public electricity grid?
Wind and solar are growing faster than any other sources of electricity in history, according to new analysis from thinktank Ember. It says they are now growing fast enough to exceed rising demand, meaning there will be a peak in fossil fuel electricity generation – and emissions – from this year. As a result, Ember says in its latest annual review of global electricity data that a “new era of falling fossil fuel generation is imminent”. Renewables met a record 30% of global electricity demand in 2023 and emissions from the sector would already have peaked if not for a record fall in hydropower, the analysis says.
Solar power is transforming the world — and at record speed. Solar electricity generation needed just eight years to grow from 100 TWh to 1,000 TWh. Then it took only three more years to double that — reaching 2,000 TWh in 2024. In each of those last three years, solar was the largest source of new electricity globally. No other electricity source has scaled this quickly.
The following pages include some of the photos from my collection, including both digital and scanned images.
My photographs have appeared in Popular Science, Sierra, Solar Age, Alternative Sources of Energy, L’Espresso, Air & Space Smithsonian, Windpower Monthly, WindStats, Renewable Energy World, and other magazines, in several engineering and physics textbooks, on brochures and posters published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, by Friends of the Earth (UK), by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the World Wildlife Fund.
