It’s been only two years since FERC (The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) announced that it would allow DR (demand response) to be treated the same as any other dispatchable power source. But in those two years, a great deal …
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Renewable Energy and a Clash of the Titans
Here’s an article that communicates the truth of the clean energy scene i.e., that fossil fuels have more than enough clout in this world to have survived the short-term threat to their existence, and will remain prominent in the global …
Tagged with: carbon trading schemes, clean energy, energy storage, environment heat up, fossil fuel energy artificially cheap, global climate change, global energy picture, level playing field for renewable energy, Master Limited Partnerships, MLPs, put a price on carbon, renewable energy credits, smart grid, solar and wind cost tools to raise capital, solar energy, solar wind ROI disappointed investors, subsidies to oil industry, Wind Energy
Talking Up Eos Energy Storage at the Energy Efficiency Summit
I’m taking a break from the activities at this, the second and last day of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s annual Energy Efficiency Summit to write this short note. My friends at Eos Energy Storage would have been …
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From Guest Blogger Nick: Energy Storage – the Next Breakthrough Technology?
Renewable power is one of the major ways that people will use energy in future. The fossil fuels that were the basis of the vast improvements in living over the past 250 years are declining. Apart from the damage they …
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Advanced Rail Energy Storage — Webinar
Here’s a webinar I conducted yesterday on Advanced Rail Energy Storage, or ARES, a new concept in cost-effective, grid-scale energy storage. I interviewed ARES CEO Jim Kelly, and covered a range of issues spanning the physics and economics of energy …
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Power Storage
Many times the subject of power storage has come up on this forum. Today it becomes an issue for me personally again and this is an ongoing issue. Not quite 3.5 years ago I purchased 4 deep cycle 12 volt …
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From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Solar Energy Hotels — The Future Is Bright
The resort and hotel business is extremely competitive and costly. As more and more hotels become increasingly extravagant, they require evermore energy to run. Many are switching to green renewable energies to cut costs and in theory they could eventually …
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Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Will Help Displace Coal-Fired Power Plants
In prepping for the upcoming webinar on ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage), I’m recommending that the company position itself more aggressively around the integration of renewables into the grid-mix and, in particular, the imperative to displace coal immediately. As I …
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Advanced Rail – New Concept in Energy Storage
Jim Kelly, CEO of ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage) has generously consented to do a webinar with me in the near future, which I think readers will find valuable. Insofar as solar and wind are intermittent resources, energy storage at …
Ron Wyden — Making Smart Grid a Reality in the U.S.
Here’s some good news: U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden is a huge supporter of smart grid. In fact, he recently promised today to do everything he can to move the government’s “clumsy … machinery” to make …
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