I met Bruce Wilson in the sandbox in kindergarten, where we were schoolmates in Philadelphia. Though we lost track of one another for many decades, I’m happy that we’ve reconnected via 2GreenEnergy, where he offers a steady stream of cogent …
Tag: distributed generation
Locally Generated Energy…. And Automobile Design?
Distributed generation is a big deal when we contemplate the future of energy, as it provides so many benefits, e.g., no transmission costs and voltage drops, reduced reliance on coal, less bureaucracy, local jobs, facilitation of smart-grid technologies, and integration …
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Re-Establishing Our Relationship With Our Power Utilities
Brace yourself for a plethora of stories like this: Utilities and consumers at war over the use of rooftop solar. Fans of renewable energy object to the cap that NV Energy in Las Vegas, Nevada has placed on the number …
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“Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar” – But It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
A friend sent me this piece from The Washington Post with the title above. He writes: I think you know this, but it’s an interesting article. Yes, this is a challenging issue. It’s hard to argue that solar owners should …
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New York’s Radical New Approach to Utility Regulation
Apparently, the State of New York is on a path to uproot its current approach to utility regulation and establish an altogether new structure by which consumers are encouraged to buy and sell power that they generate in a distributed …
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Celebrating Change in the Way We Regulate the Power Utilities
Good news from the State of New York. These people appear to be in the process of addressing an issue that’s absolutely crucial to a migration to renewable energy; they’re contemplating a wholesale rethinking of the way they regulate their …
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Can We Achieve a Sustainable Approach to Energy? Many Reasons To Think So, But Just As Many To Be Pessimistic
As we recall from Dickens, “… it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, ….” Those …
National Security and Renewable Energy
I spent most of the afternoon yesterday with 2GreenEnergy intern Louis de Saint Phalle, talking about the project he’s working on: a set of articles that will lay out the main issues associated with the adoption of renewable energy. The …
Apparently, Renewable Energy Is Viewed as Controversial
At the risk of stating the obvious, there is a real debate going on as to the legitimacy of renewable energy, smart grid, distributed generation, energy storage, efficiency, etc. Do we, as a society, have the right to implement these …
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Electric Utilities Impeding Distributed Generation
A colleague sent me this piece on the roadblocks that the utilities are throwing up to impede distributed generation. He notes, “Everyone will decide where they come down on these issues, but the utility industry is now using a monopoly position …
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