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The 2019 Energy Awards
A special feature of "The Energy Year in Review"
December, 2019
Winner - Energy Person of the Year:  The Climate Warriors
Nominees also included: 
  • Christiana Figueres
  • Gina McCarthy
  • Ernie Moniz
  • Rick Perry​
Other AES Energy Awards
Winner - Best Article in Energy Today:  Natural Gas, the Real Energy Revolution

Winner - Best Hollywood movie with energy as a theme:  Birds of Passage

Winner - Best Documentary with energy/sustainability as a theme:  The Hottest August

Best Energy Blog - Winner:  Kirk Coburn

Best Thought-Leadership Report - Winner: Clearing the Air, by Energy Futures Initiative.
(Insert below:  slide from Clearing the Air.)
Watch this space for the winner of
2019 Energy Writer of the Year
The premier literary award for energy.
Past winners of “Energy Writer of the Year”:
  • 2018: Nathaniel Rich, for his article, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” (New York Times Magazine, August 1, 2018), about a critical ten-year period - 1979 to 1989 – which was a time of great awakening in science, politics and industry that rising greenhouse gases posed an existential threat, and the disturbing realization that the awakening didn’t turn into action.
  • 2017: Meghan O’Sullivan, for her literary contributions to the energy sector, especially her book Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power.  Ms. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  • 2016: Mark Mills, for his literary contributions to the energy sector, especially his article Shale 2.0.  Mr. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a faculty fellow at Northwestern's McCormick School, and a contributing scholar at and writer for 360 Review at the University of Mary.
  • 2015: Coral Davenport, for her literary contributions to the energy sector, especially her thoughtful and creative use of Twitter to report news about energy and the environment.  Ms. Davenport is an Energy and Environment correspondent for the New York Times, and a fellow with the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting. 
The Story of Energy and the Environment in 2019 ... As Told In 4 Slides
1. Renewable energy advocates celebrate the rapid growth of non-hydro renewable power generation, with an increase of 14% in 2019.

Renewable energy generation:
2. However, the total amount of energy consumed by the world in 2019 also increased substantially ... again.
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Total Global Energy Consumption:  
3. To meet that demand, the world consumed about the same amount of all sources of generated energy, including coal (total coal consumed world-wide increased 2.8%):

Total Coal Consumed, by TWh/year:
4. Which means no change in total greenhouse gas emissions - the world needs to remove 80 gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Note: CO2 is the primary driver of greenhouse gas emission; there are now about 420 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere:
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