Earlier today I wrote a post in which I pointed out the impracticality of hydrogen as a “fuel,” to which frequent commenter Aaron writes: The US, even with a “smart grid” isn’t likely to get more than 16 hours of effective solar …
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Sources
Here’s a report on the amount of CO2 associated with various power sources. It’s not uncommon for the nuclear industry to seize upon reports like this, and say, “Ya see? We’re clean energy too.” Of course, that’s true, and I wouldn’t have …
Esplanade Capital To Present Key Concepts in Solar Energy Investments
Recently, my good friend and long-time 2GreenEnergy supporter Tom Konrad introduced me to his colleague Shawn Kravetz, founder of Esplanade Capital, a hedge fund that’s been “focused” on the solar energy market (pardon the pun) since 2006. When I met …
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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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The Adoption Curve for Electric Vehicles
Here’s an article that presents some specious logic associated with electric vehicle adoption. In particular, the greening of conventional vehicles militates away from, not towards, the adoption of EVs; the payback in fuel consumption for an EV is far more …
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Planning Guide on Smart-grid Data Privacy Issues
When I had my marketing consultancy, one of the main goals was to get high rates of return on the direct mail campaigns. My secret weapon: giving away highly valued content. To that end, I used to write “planning guides” …
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Political Correctness Trumps Energy Policy
Frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Tim Kingston sent me this article from POWER Magazine called Political Correctness Trumps Energy Policy, pointing out the lack of fairness and common sense in the way the city of San Francisco provides its citizens electrical power. Thanks …
Migration To Smart-Grid Requires New Thinking
EPRI, the Electric Power Resource Institute, is a non-profit organization that functions to perform research and provide assistance in the development of advanced systems in generation, delivery and use of electricity. I’m sure there was a time a few decades …
Smart Grid Distribution Automation
In the United States, transmission and distribution losses accounted for 260 teraWatt-hours (billion kWhs) of energy last year. Here’s a report in which Duke Energy, Silver Spring Networks and Power Analytics share their strategies for cutting these distribution losses, thus …
Smart-Grid's Value Called Into Question
Here’s an article that points to a controversy about smart-grid, i.e., about the concept of two-way communication between the electric generation plant and the customer, and the application of intelligence to flow of information. Apparently, someone is alleging that the …
