How can we achieve our quest for 100% clean energy? Let’s start with the understanding that nuclear, while it’s very clean, is baseload, i.e., it can’t be ramped up to address the quite significantly changing loads that we experience through …
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New Role for Decommissioned Coal Plants
In the context of grid management, we hear a great deal about “ancillary services,” which normally means adding a bit of power to the electricity grid, specifically generated so as to manage seemingly small but extremely important issues like unwanted …
From Guest Blogger Angie Mansfield: Where Will the Electric Car Industry Be in the Next Few Years?
While the electric car is commonly seen as a future technology, the late 19th to early 20th century saw peak popularity for this mode of powering engines. At the time, electricity was easier to use, and electric cars easier to …
Cost-Justifying EV Charging Stations
As evidenced by this article, building EV charging stations that combine solar charging, batteries, and grid backup is still considered news, though there have been hundreds of examples of systems that do this. In fact, one of my “Craig Shields …
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Bringing Clean Energy to Rural Africa
In response to a friend in South Africa who wanted my opinion on a business plan to bring fuel cells and solar PV to rural Africa, I wrote: Very interesting. Certainly the solar product with batteries makes sense. I think …
In Renewable Energy, Things May Not Be What They Seem
I subscribe to a great number of free online newsletters that cover cleantech at a fairly broad level, and though I certainly don’t read every word, I do glance through them. If you have a spare minute, I would ask …
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Many Different Industries Should Be Interested in the Clean Energy "Corporate Role Models" Blog
I began to write a private email to my colleague Stephan Williams who is helping out with our “Corporate Role Models” blog, when I realized there is really nothing private about it at all. Here are notes on the industries …
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Coming Soon from Toshiba: Consumer Energy Storage Device
A friend just sent me a note on this compact, consumer-oriented energy storage device from Toshiba. I’m wondering if it’s a hoax. It delivers 3 kW of stored electricity for 12 hours? If it’s using lithium ion and combines the …
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Solar Thermal Deserves Our Support
Here’s a good article on a recently completed solar thermal tower (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) in the desert between Las Vegas and Reno, NV. The thing to like about solar thermal, as we’ve often discussed here, is that …
Big Advancements in Electric Vehicle Batteries
A reader asks my opinion of Envia Systems‘ lithium-ion battery. I reply: If these claims are true, it’s a really important breakthrough — potentially even more significant than that of my friends at Eos Energy Storage. The number one issue …
