Tag: smart grid

A companion point to be made here is that, in the absence of green infrastructure, the United States is actively contributing to the incineration of our planet. In addition, building low-carbon energy generation, electric transportation, smart grid, energy storage, and …

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As cities seek low-carbon alternatives, many regions are looking into microgrids. According to the US Department of Energy, a microgrid is a group of interconnected resources that act as a separate controllable energy source. There are three different types of …

From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: How Waste-To-Energy Can Enable Microgrids Read More »

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Here’s a short video that presents the populations of the world’s largest cities as they’ve changed over the past 500 years.

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Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only country on Earth in which there exists a debate among its political elites as to the validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  Elsewhere, climate change is simply accepted …

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Speaking about climate change mitigation and other efforts to achieve some level of environmental responsibility, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes, “I would guess that the election of Trump set the world back ~6 years, assuming we get rid of …

Considerable Yet Finite: Gauging the Damage Trump’s Done to the World Read More »

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Since its inception coming up on eight years ago, 2GreenEnergy has attempted to sort out the issues that affect our civilization’s replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, and this, as we made clear at the start, encompasses the interactivity between …

Rule of Thumb for 2017: If You and I Care About It, It’s a Political Non-Starter Read More »

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Gary Tulie, long-time colleague extraordinaire, writes: Craig, here is one of the things I predicted when helping with Bullish on Renewable Energy. In the Netherlands, 6000 Tesla electric vehicles are beginning to show the potential of controllable charging to help …

Vehicle to Grid Technology Is Happening in the Netherlands Read More »

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A commenter notes about the green energy “boom,” The kind of reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending that typifies a “boom” has largely dissipated, as new (sic) technologies mature. No one ever knowing participates in “reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending.”

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Here’s the first edition of Green Auto Digest for the New Year, from my colleague Jon LeSage. The take-away is that the two most important trends in transportation, i.e., autonomous vehicles and alt-fuel, are both moving forward at an impressive …

What’s Driving the Move To CleanTech? Read More »

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Every Christmas since we opened in 2009, I’ve written a hopeful little holiday message in the spirit of the season and the expectation of a bright New Year. At this point, however, I have to question the sanity, or at …

(Mixed) Message of Hope for the Holiday Season Read More »

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