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Southern Company Annual Meeting @ SO 2016-05-25

Road trip to Callaway Gardens for the annual question time with Tom Fanning,
questions provided by environmentalists and Southern Company (SO) stockholders from at least four states.


Energy Mix

This figure from page ii of the meeting Notice illustrates both the problem and the solution for Southern Company.
Natural gas has replaced coal as SO’s top energy source, and Nuclear is still
in there.
But renewables are up to 4%.
And over on the right of the same page:

  • Growth in Renewables

    Approximately 3,800 megawatts of announced
    or added renewable capacity since 2012. This
    includes the development of what is expected to
    be the largest voluntary solar portfolio in the U.S.
    (at Georgia Power Company).

Interesting use of “voluntary”, but never mind that.
If SO keeps that up, it will Continue reading →

Stockholm Fossil Fuel Free City 2050

If a

cold Nordic city at the latitude of Anchorage
can do this, sunny Valdosta can do this:



The City of Stockholm’s “Action Programme on Climate Change”
involves the participation of several groups: the City of Stockholm’s
own departments, local businesses and those who live and work in the
city. The work has been successful so far and the emission of greenhouse
gases has been reduced. In 1990, emissions of 5.3 tons of CO2e* per
person were registered compared with 4.0 tons CO2e per person in 2005.

The long-term target is for Stockholm to continue to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gases at the same rate as between 1990 and 2005. In theory,
this means that Stockholm will become a fossil fuel free city by 2050.

Greenhouse gas targets for the period of 2005-2050 compared with the
base year of 1990.

* CO2e = means of specifying the effect of a gas on the emission of
greenhouse gases compared to carbon dioxide.

-jsq

PS: This post owed to Tim Carroll, who saw it in Time Magazine.