{"id":529066,"date":"2010-04-15T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/innovation\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:39:28","slug":"the-cost-saving-potential-of-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529066","title":{"rendered":"The Cost-Saving Potential of Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDF\u2019s Renewable Energy Specialist <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=27159\">Colin Meehan<\/a> recently examined a scenario about how the mix of wind, coal, and natural gas affects Austin\u2019s energy costs. The post is pretty technical for the lay reader, but it makes the case for <strong>investment in renewable energy as a key cost-saving measure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Whether greenhouse gas regulations from the EPA or Congress, we now know that they are coming within the next year. This fact makes past and future Austin Energy&#039;s investments in renewable energy an important cost-saving measure for Austinites as fossil fuel generation costs continue to increase for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Read Colin&#039;s full post on the <a rel=\"nofollow\">Texas Energy Exchange<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=EWYanVT5j7U:Go3l_aMeESI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=EWYanVT5j7U:Go3l_aMeESI:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=EWYanVT5j7U:Go3l_aMeESI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=EWYanVT5j7U:Go3l_aMeESI:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=EWYanVT5j7U:Go3l_aMeESI:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/EWYanVT5j7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDF\u2019s Renewable Energy Specialist Colin Meehan recently examined a scenario about how the mix of wind, coal, and natural gas affects Austin\u2019s energy costs. The post is pretty technical for the lay reader, but it makes the case for investment in renewable energy as a key cost-saving measure: Whether greenhouse gas regulations from the EPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}