I mentioned earlier that I’m on my way to Portland, OR for the day, and I happen to be flying on Alaska Airlines. I just leafed through the in-flight magazine, expecting to see plenty of ads for arctic cruises and…
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Trip North to See Xzeres, Important Player In Small Wind
I’m on my way to Portland, OR this morning to do a marketing needs assessment for Xzeres, an important player in small wind (anything under 200 kilowatts). This is a beleaguered industry if there ever were one; there have been…
Energy Policy and the Adoption of Renewables
Renewable Energy World does a good job at tracking the adoption of clean energy at all levels, including continental. Here’s an article that explains why Europe is unlikely to achieve its goal of 20% penetration of renewables by 2020. While…
Tagged with: adoption of clean energy, clean energy replacement of fossil fuels, energy policy, Europe unlikely to achieve its renewable energy goal, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels artificially cheap, fully dispatchable renewable energy, grid parity, Renewable Energy World, solar energy, subsidizing oil companies, Wind Energy
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Electric Power Utilities Face Tough Times
I don’t claim to know about what the utilities are really talking about behind closed doors. Reading between the lines, I would have to think the level of stress is starting to build, as numerous industry trends seem to militate…
Tagged with: distributed generation, electric power utilities, from individual rate-payers; utilities blamed for outages, large customers leaving utilities, power from cleaner sources, solar energy, utilities ecologically insensitive, utilities price-gouging, utilities take public relations hit, Wind Energy
Posted in Renewables - Business
Posted in Renewables - Business
Electric Transportation, Vehicle To Grid, and Wind Energy
There is so much general ignorance on the basic issues confronting renewable energy and electric transportation that it’s sometimes hard to know how to react to articles like this one on “vehicle to grid,” i.e., the concept that large number…
Denmark’s “Community” Approach to Renewable Energy
Longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter Aedan Kernan commented on my piece bemoaning the U.S. government’s failing to respond to the will of the people, and clinging onto a de facto energy policy that is rooted in fossil fuels. Aedan lives in the…
Tagged with: 100% renewable energy, 50% of Denmark’s electricity, Aalborg University Local, Aedan Kernan, community ownership of energy, de facto energy policy, distributed generation, energy policy fossil fuels, generation closer to the load, large centralized utility monopolies, Wind Energy
Posted in Renewables - Business
Posted in Renewables - Business
From Machine Design: New Device for Extracting Energy from Wind
Here’s a renewable energy idea that frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me. It doesn’t seem reasonable, but I thought I’d ask the physicists out there to comment. It’s a device that emits tiny droplets of water from electrical conductors (copper…
From Guest Blogger Tina Samuels: Wind Energy Isn’t All Hot Air
Confused about some of the facts on wind energy? Does it work as well as they say? There are tremendous benefits for having wind energy, and here are some of the top facts on the productivity of it. Number One…
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