We haven’t heard too much on this subject recently, but it’s unclear why that is. Over 20% of the gasoline consumed in the downtown parts of our big cities is associated with drivers looking for parking spaces. About 15 years …
Category: Smart Grid
Scottish Microgrid Is a Huge Success
Here’s a short BBC video that presents what the island of Eigg, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, has done to establish a microgrid using hydrokinetics, wind, and solar PV. Prior to its establishment, each house had its own generator that …
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From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: How Waste-To-Energy Can Enable Microgrids
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 …
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Rocky Mountain Institute and the Government of The Bahamas
The Rocky Mountain Institute was featured on last Sunday’s edition of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which featured a discussion of how RMI will work with the government of The Bahamas to implement microgrids to improve resilience in this and other island …
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Providing Global Access to Electricity Provides Huge Opportunity
As shown below, there are approximately one billion people living without access to electricity. That means no refrigeration, poor water quality, poor healthcare, and poor education. In turn, that means a vicious cycle of disease and poverty. As with all …
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Cutting-Edge Microgrid Technology
The other day I had the good fortune to run into Charles Wells, CTO of Pxise (pronounced “pice”), whose breakthrough micro-grid technology has the potential to effect huge changes in the provision of electrical energy around the globe.
Microgrids Here and Yonder
A microgrid is a regional network of energy generation assets, especially renewables, combined with local distribution, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicles to provide better resilience to reduce dependence on fossil fuel plants, eliminate expensive power transmission lines, and improve …
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Urbanization
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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Exergy: The 100% Renewable, Always On, Distributed Utility–Making Organizations Green, Reliable and More Profitable
Here’s a clean energy investment opportunity that I came across recently; it’s the best example of “thinking outside the box” that I’ve seen in quite a while. It may take a few minutes to wrap your wits around it, but …
Smart Cities
My friend Jesse Berst (pictured) is Founder and Chairman of the Smart Cities Council, and one of the world’s foremost experts when it comes to building intelligent, ICT-enabled (information and communications technology) cities. Better yet, his understanding of the subject is …
