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Solar Alert! Rooftop Decay, Facility Decommissioning

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 15, 2025

“This is where the next frontier of solar energy lies—not in installing the next 100GW—it’s rescuing the first 100GW.” – Cesar Barbosa (below)

And you thought that owning a Tesla was ecological …. Imagine that solar roof that now needs attention with the installer AWOL. The solar industry is about to become the least popular in the U.S. with hundreds of thousands of disappointed customers.

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Cesar Barbosa is busy in a hot new field–solar decommissioning. And repowering too if the tax credit is still there.

“As the founder of NuLife Power Services,” he states, “I’m proud to lead a nationally recognized company specializing in Repowering, Removal & Reinstallation, and Decommissioning for aging solar assets across North America.”

For me, it’s not just about revitalizing solar systems—it’s about building a strong workforce through solid leadership and investing in people who are driven to make a lasting impact in renewable energy.

Gas-fired Electricity for New Data Centers: Fischer Makes A Case

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 10, 2025

Black & Veatch executive Phil Fischer wrote this piece late last year making a case for natural gas for power generation, whether for the entire data center or for backup. In a free market, natural gas combined cycle, cogeneration, and peaking turbines have proven to be technologies of choice. With wind, solar, and battery subsidies on the chopping block, a new era for gas-fired electrical generation could be ahead.

“Companies developing data centers are in a new era in which the scope of project planning must expand far beyond the data center itself and into the supporting physical infrastructure – power generation, water delivery and water treatment,” Phil Fisher begins. “Delays in this physical infrastructure have led to new ideas that open the window for options that previously had not been on the table.”…

Climate/Energy Exchange with Jody Freeman (Harvard University)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 9, 2025

“If you are so sure that your views are correct, why not have a robust climate debate at Harvard. You know and I know that such an event would not come off well for the alarmists/forced energy transformationists.”

Jody Freeman, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, posted on LinkedIn [she blocked me–maybe you can open her links]:

Sobering assessment of our climate risk trajectory and how rising temperatures could overtake insurance markets, and lead to a credit crunch, among a cascade of other financial consequences. Watch the insurance industry. It is serious about climate change. And the canary in the coal mine.

Her link was to Joe Romm’s report of a Guardian article, “Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer,” subtitled “Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure.”…

‘The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions’, U.S. Department of Energy Example

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 8, 2025

Three Cheers for Diminished ‘Just Stop Oil’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 7, 2025

Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 4, 2025

John Berger: “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Sustainable Energy Future

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 1, 2025

‘Just Stop Oil’ … Stops

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 28, 2025

Nuclear Subsidies in Texas? Ouch!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 25, 2025

CERA Misreport: Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle) Goes Sarcastic

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 20, 2025