Continued from yesterday…. Energy Storage and the Advent of Electric Transportation. The only real issue with solar and wind is variability, i.e., the fact that the sun doesn’t shine at night, and the wind doesn’t blow in a given place all …
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From a 50,000-Foot Level: What’s Happening with Renewable Energy in the United States? – Part 2 of 2
Tagged with: coal heavy metals, coal radioactive isotopes, Falling Cost of Renewable Energy, Get rid of coal plants now, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), migration away from the use of fossil fuels and towards clean energy, Oil Companies and Corruption, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, power utilities, Renewable Energy in the United States, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senior decision-makers on the environment, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, U.S. Congress virtually owned by the oil companies, worst polluters in the grid mix
From a 50,000-Foot Level: What’s Happening with Renewable Energy in the United States? – Part 1 of 2
Note: Here is a short essay that I wrote for another publication whose editor rejected it on the basis that it contained “controversial statements.” Ya know….I never thought of that….I suppose he’s correct! I laughed out loud when I read …
Tagged with: coal heavy metals, coal radioactive isotopes, Falling Cost of Renewable Energy, Get rid of coal plants now, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), migration away from the use of fossil fuels and towards clean energy, Oil Companies and Corruption, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, power utilities, Renewable Energy in the United States, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senior decision-makers on the environment, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, U.S. Congress virtually owned by the oil companies, worst polluters in the grid mix
Reframing Our Utilities’ Mission Statement
I have to admit that tension really is brewing between the power utilities and the solar industry – at least the part of it that promotes distributed (e.g., rooftop) generation (DG). Yet it’s hard for me to understand all this …
Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles Fit Together Hand In Glove
Here’s a wonderful article that explains how smart grid and the adoption of electric vehicles really depend upon one another. Like so many of the other things we cover here on a daily basis, the question isn’t “Are we going …
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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. …
Smart-Grid Enables Renewables, Energy Efficiency
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend this year’s DistribuTECH conference, arguably the most significant annual event in energy distribution, but I’ve read a few summaries. I’ve come to believe that this whole subject of smart-grid and the evolution of our power utilities lies at the …
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Growth in Microgrids Over the Coming 10 Years
Whenever I come across an article like this on microgrids, i.e., “islands” of distributed energy generation, storage, and consumption that are not connected to a power utility, I look at the numbers. If I were a utility exec, how scared …
Rethinking the Sustainable Generation and Consumption of Electricity
As this article suggests, everywhere one looks in the new energy industry one finds references to disruptive technologies, not only in the various “flavors” of renewable energy, but in the basic ways in which electricity is delivered. Take DG (distributed …
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Tagged with: demand response, DG, disruptive technologies, distributed generation, DR, energy storage, flavors of renewable energy, higher grid reliability, Hydropower, less line loss, local PUC, new energy, new way of regulating utilities, power utilities, Renewable Energy, sustainability, sustainable generation and consumption of electricity
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 …
Vanderbilt University Students Look At Eos Energy Storage
As promised, I just did a phone interview for three engineering majors at Vanderbilt University who are studying the target market for our client Eos Energy Storage. We discussed the various ways in which this breakthrough in zinc-air batteries could …
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