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 …
Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Will Help Displace Coal-Fired Power Plants Read More »
Given that solar and wind are intermittent, our usual notion of these most common forms of renewable energy is that they create grid instability – perhaps even blackouts – stemming from unpredictable clouds covering the sun or changing patterns in …
Does a High Penetration of Solar and Wind Energy Cause — Or Prevent — Grid Instability? Read More »
A friend asked my opinion on this high school kid’s experimentation with algae as biofuel. Friend: Hmmm. Craig: Well, this IS exactly what algae researchers are doing… And it DOES have promise, IMO. Friend: It certainly would give us a …
Frequent commenter from the U.K. Gary Tulie writes on my piece this morning concerning creating biofuels from sugar beets: … the efficiency of photosynthesis to energy stored in biomass is at the very best in the 3 to 5% range – and …
As we’ve learned in our last monthly webinar, Germany is undergoing some rapid changes in its adoption of photovoltaics. Many people say that the huge feed-in tariffs that created an enormous influx of investors a few years ago didn’t need …
Germany’s Solar Photovoltaics Market – Quite the Ride Read More »
Sometimes we hear calls for presidential mandates or other forms of governmental intervention from the least likely sources. For example, I would have bet that General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel Akerson would have thought the private sector and the …
What About the Big Divorce — Between Big Auto and Big Energy? Read More »
Here’s an article that wrestles with the confusion surrounding the idea that the entire world’s energy demand could be supplied with PV on 1% of the Earth’s surface. (By my quick calcs, btw, this is true. 1% of the surface …
Addressing the World's Energy Needs — Especially Those That Are Most Pressing Read More »
I plan to attend the annual Storage Week conference in Austin, TX, April 2 – 4; this will be my third consecutive year for this conference, and I have to say that they are terrific, in terms of both content …
These articles on India’s “generation-based incentive” and the “production tax credit” here in the U.S. call to mind a sad fact: government incentives that are designed to produce more wind energy are deeply flawed. First, turning these incentives on and …
Artificial Economic Supports for Wind Energy Are Inherently Flawed Read More »
The UK government is moving, some would say stumbling, towards its legal obligation to have 15% of the UK’s energy produced by renewables by 2020. Every year more sources of renewable energy come on stream, but there are setbacks on …
From Guest Blogger Cass: An Overview of UK Renewable Energy Read More »
