Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty is highly critical of this piece, which provides an ostensible roadmap to 100% renewable energy; his comments are here. My response: First, let’s acknowledge that there are optimistic people whose analyses are more rigorous.
Tag: energy storage
Marrying Cleantech Solutions with Sources of Investment Capital
I want to send you this as a reminder that I’m still in the business of bringing together solid ideas in cleantech (mostly renewable energy) with sources of investment capital.
America At a Crossroads
Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only country on Earth in which there exists a debate among its political elites as to the validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Elsewhere, climate change is simply accepted …
Tagged with: cleantech, climate change is accepted as objective fact, efficiency solutions, electric transportation and synthetic fuels, energy storage, geoengineering, low-carbon energy, melting of ice and snow in the Arctic, plant-based meats, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, renewables and nuclear, smart grid, sustainable ag, tools we have to deal with climate change, validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming
Considerable Yet Finite: Gauging the Damage Trump’s Done to the World
Speaking about climate change mitigation and other efforts to achieve some level of environmental responsibility, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes, “I would guess that the election of Trump set the world back ~6 years, assuming we get rid of …
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Tagged with: Bullish on Renewable Energy, climate change mitigation, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, environmental responsibility, increase in cost effectiveness of the peripheral technologies, smart grid, solar and wind, steadily increase in cost effectiveness of renewables
How Feasible Is This Energy Storage Device?
Here’s a question for you mechanical engineering types out there: Can you please comment on this energy storage device? I saw this at a conference a few years ago, but forgot about it until just now.
Intro To Renewables
Here’s a video designed for newcomers, an introduction to the subject of energy storage, making the point that batteries are making progress via new technology.
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Kevin Kuttumkal: Additional Electric Vehicles Can Reduce California’s “Duck Curve”
Solar adoption all over the United States is taking place at a very rapid pace and is contributing to the “duck curve” issue, which is caused by a deep dip during intraday demand for grid electricity during mid-day hours where …
Announcing Another Brilliant Young Intern at 2GreenEnergy
I’m pleased to announce the arrival of a brand new intern here at 2GreenEnergy; a big hearty welcome to Kevin, a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas. Kevin majored in energy management and will be spending a …
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Tagged with: coal-favoring EPA under Andrew Wheeler, Department of Energy (DoE), energy management, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, energy storage, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), force grid operators to buy more energy from coal, frequency regulation, grid stability, how electricity markets function in the U.S., integrate more variable energy resources into our grid-mix, public utility commissions (PUCs), shaping energy markets, subsidize electricity plants that have huge amounts of fuel stored onsite, wave form management
ABB on Energy Storage
The industrial giant ABB was a client of mine in the late 1990s. I have a distinct fondness for them, though they represent the only business trip I regret not being able to make; due to a conflict in my …
Solar Thermal: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
