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The Cost of Wind Energy, Part I
I wanted to find a means of estimating the cost of a one million mega watt (Mgw) wind generator and compare that to the cost of one million Mgw of nuclear generation capacity.[read more]
Demand Response Cuts Need for New Generation in PJM Grid
PJM's demand reponse
Increasing reliance on smart technology to revolutionize the way efficiency is utilized represents a departure from the supply-side approach that has traditionally governed the "dumb," centralized electricity system of years past.[read more]
Solar Energy to Account for Most New Generation in California
California's grid
Almost all of the new generation capacity in the California transmission system operator’s queue for the second half of 2013 is solar -- 97 percent, to be exact. There are 1,633 megawatts of new generation capacity in the 2H 2013 queue.[read more]
Wind vs. Nuclear Energy in the UK: A Question of Scale
nuclear energy in the UK
The UK government has just given planning approval for the first new nuclear power plant in almost 20 years, and someone wanted to know how many windfarms would be needed to generate the same amount of power?[read more]
California’s photovoltaic push
photo: PG&E I wrote this post for Grist, where it first appeared. Amid the hullabaloo over government-chartered mortgage giants derailing the green financing program known as Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, the march toward distributed generation of renewable energy – that is, generating electricity from...[read more]
A smart electric network – in more ways than one
As we often do here on EarthPM, we are going to combine a couple of pertinent and important themes to hopefully strengthen some points that are key to each of them. The two themes we relate here are: Electric Smart Grids for effective power transmission and reduced carbon footprint High-powered Grids of Smart PMs to gain a bigger...[read more]
Mixed outlook for gas reactors
Progress planned in Europe, but a fire sale looms in South Africa The future of high temperature gas-cooled reactors is taking different directions depending on where you look. In Europe a multi-national collaboration is working on plans for a site to build the Allegro Reactor. However, in South Africa the proposed “rescue plan” for the...[read more]
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“One real question, is how much energy did this "investment" produce?Another, related question, is what was the external cost of this investment.The answer to the first question can be found on the web page of the California Energy Commission.http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_capacity.html1533 Gigawatt-hr as of 2012.The second question, will be, as always, obscured ...”
“This reflects some of the Vehement/viceral/ One track minded attitude that I think I've noticed with some Renewables/GW enthusisats. I will use some humour to exaggeratingly illustrate the point. In a Top Secrete, High level SPANISH Government debate.."The Economy is bad, what tough choices do / MUST we, COURAGEOUSLY make to recover?"........Fund Solar Power, or Feed the ...”