I hope readers will check out 2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie’s insightful comments at the bottom of our intern Kevin Kuttumkal’s post Additional Electric Vehicles Can Reduce California’s “Duck Curve.”
Tag: grid operators
The Cost of Utility Scale Solar and Batteries Coming Into Parity with Natural Gas Peaker Plants
In the wake of a recent and fairly significant blackout in Southern Australia, grid operators made two immediate investments, both focused on meeting future peak electricity demands: an 250 MW open-cycle natural gas plant and a 100-megawatt/129-megawatt-hour battery from Tesla, …
Setting Stratospheric Records in Wind Power
The main reason to be “Bullish on Renewable Energy“ (as the saying goes) is that to a large degree, its expansion is independent of politics. According to Reuters, for a brief period last Sunday, the U.S. powered a full 50% of its …
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. …
