Here’s a bit of pessimism on the prospect of building out the grid in the U.S. to foster the massive integration of renewables. “It’s not going to happen, anytime soon, at least,” reports a FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) spokesperson. …
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Energy Efficiency Sounds So Good, But Where Are the Incentives To Make It Happen?
Here’s an article that illustrates a principle I often discuss here: the lack of proper incentives and regulation to get the power utilities to embrace energy efficiency. As a society, we need to use less energy, but that will only …
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Time To Rethink the Electrical Grid
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will probably even install solar on mine and a friend’s house. …
Solar PV — and Distributed Generation More Generally — Changes What We Expect from Our Utilities
The solar PV growth curves illustrate the rapid expansion in the deployment of this form for distributed generation (DG). The only conclusion one can draw from looking at these graphs is that, after decades of customers’ putting their toes in …
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 …
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Electricity Rate-payers in Austin, TX Take Progressive Stance on Renewable Energy
Here’s an article that lays out three choices available to electricity rate-payers: deregulation (“customer choice”), municipal aggregation (“city choice”), and municipal utilities (“city ownership”), and goes on to discuss the merits of each. In the last case, a municipality’s purchasing …
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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 …
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Distributed Generation and the Intermittency of Renewable Energy
When we generate energy from renewable sources, we normally contemplate putting it on the grid. But then the issue arises: What about intermittency, and the need to back it up with dispatchable sources? People often forget that distributed generation does …
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NRG Energy CEO: Consumers of “Green” Power Soon Won’t Need a Grid Connection
Are the falling prices of natural gas “wiping out” coal and nuclear? That’s what David Crane, President and CEO of Fortune-300 sized NRG Energy told the audience at a Wall Street Journal conference recently. As if that didn’t astonish event attendees, …
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Distributed Generation Could Eventually Dominate the Energy Landscape
About a year ago, I had lunch with the top two people from Forester Media, whose publications include Distributed Energy, and during our conversation I expressed my interest in co-promoting one another’s content. For my money, anyone who’s concerned with …
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