Renewable Revolution

Agelbert NOTE: The following two news items are related. The first one is an excellent example of certain people's consistent "pretty shocked" reaction to the OBVIOUS scientifically proven cause and effect relationship between Catastrophic Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. 

The second story evidences that, despite all the efforts by the polluters to game the Florida energy market on behalf of fossil fuels and nuclear power, the OBVIOUS need to transition to energy sources that DO NOT cause the sea level to rise is being taken seriously.

Regardless of what the Trump 🦀 supporting climate change denier crazies babble about, even Republicans can add and subtract in biosphere math.


Climate Nexus Energy Desk

April 23, 2018


Rising sea levels are already beginning to reshape the real estate market in Miami, a new study shows, with potential implications for other property markets across the country. The research, published Friday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, shows that the prices of single-family homes at lower elevations are rising more slowly than those at higher elevations, suggesting that buyers and sellers are weighing the implications of short-term flooding and long-term coastal change. Evidence that low-level homes are falling behind homes at higher elevations "is pretty shocking," paper author Jesse Keenan told the Wall Street Journal, "because you can infer that this is a pricing signal from climate change."

http://fortune.com/2018/04/21/climate-change-is-already-depressing-the-price-of-flood-prone-real-estate/




Florida regulators issued a ruling Friday that would allow solar giant Sunrun to offer residential equipment leases in the state, potentially opening the door for more Floridians to choose solar. Florida state law stipulates that only registered utilities can sell electricity, but the Florida Public Service Commission on Friday ruled that Sunrun's request for 20-year solar equipment leases is not a retail sale of electricity and therefore within the bounds of the law.

"Florida was already going to be a growth market" for solar, Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Hugh Bromley told Bloomberg News. "This could supercharge that."


http://www.newsherald.com/news/20180421/psc-oks-companys-solar-equipment-leases