Credit to Author: Edward Stewart| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:30:14 +0000
Owners and operators of thermal and renewable energy infrastructure are navigating new and emerging risks due to digitization of the grid, an uncertain regulatory landscape, and changing environmental and weather […]
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Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:57:39 +0000
For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:20:08 +0000
One of the big “gotchas” the anti-EV crowd tries to throw at EVs is that they’d fail you in a hurricane evacuation. I’ve covered this before, repeatedly, but no matter how many times we bust the myths and garbage surrounding it, the lie just doesn’t go away. Like other right-wing memes in Florida, it’s even […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:24:32 +0000
For more than a month, Tropical Cyclone Freddy has cast about in the Indian Ocean
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:13:51 +0000
Cyclone Gabrielle has been lashing New Zealand with strong winds and heavy rain in mid-February 2023, adding to what has already been an unusually wet start to the year. The latest round of extreme weather brought destructive flooding, storm surge, and landslides to the region. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NASA-NOAA […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:43:27 +0000
As Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, 2022, some areas of the island were inundated with nearly 30 inches of rain, and power to hundreds of thousands of homes was knocked out. Only 10 days later, Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm and one of the […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:00:46 +0000
Communities looking to build resilience in the face of worsening climate disasters will soon have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to better prepare themselves via new federal funding and incentives.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 15:21:04 +0000
One RMIer recounts his experience braving Hurricane Ian and why the lights stayed on in his solar-powered sustainable community. By Ryan Foelske My family and I survived our first hurricane. Hurricane Ian passed right over our head and pummeled the west cost of Florida with high winds for 6–10 hours. The storm ravaged our local […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:59:09 +0000
We’re not so sure about that. I just went through the process of evacuating, returning home, and helping friends with hurricane cleanup, and had a good opportunity to contemplate the pros and cons of driving electric in a disaster. It’s true that power tends to go out in a hurricane, which on the face of […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:40:22 +0000
One of the most visible consequences of a warming world is an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. Most have an associated human influence, too, that doesn’t seem as if it will diminish soon.