Here’s a good article that discusses the pressures India faces to install more electricity generation capacity. In many respects, the issues are altogether different than those in the U.S. In particular, India is a nation in which supply doesn’t generally …
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It’s no secret that the U.S. lags most of the rest of the developed world in terms of the adoption of renewable energy. It would be nice if there were a singular cause for this that we could simply identify …
Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood sent me this article describing Germany’s generous subsidies for solar PV and asked me to react to it. Yes, the German program was overzealous; no one (no one I’ve come across, at least) disputes that. The …
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Glenn Doty’s calculations in the comment on my piece on biofuels and electric transportation compare the costs of energy from solar PV and bioethanol. This is a very good way of looking at the subject. I thank Glenn, as always, …
Frequent commenter and alternative fuels expert Ben Thorp responds to my piece on electric transportation the other day, noting: Energy efficiency … may be the largest issue if saving fossil fuel or the global environment is a major concern. The …
I’m sitting in the press room at the PV America East show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where I’ve arrived about an hour before the main show floor opens. I’m using the time to have conversations with a few of …
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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 …
Readers may want to check out Christopher Willis’ excellent comment on my post yesterday on nuclear and solar energy, in which he points out that a complete replacement for the energy Americans consume would require enough solar PV to cover …
Solar PV Takes Room — But Is That the Gating Factor? Read More »
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 …
Here’s an article that gets to a couple of important points that are illustrative of where we are and where we’re going in clean energy. • Financing solar photovoltaics. There is no doubt that homeowners would be more likely to invest …
