Wind
Google and Wind Energy: Acquisition of Makani Kite Power
It’s been a long time since we covered Makani Power, the company developing kite-like wind turbines. In fact, it has just been bought by Google, for development under its Google[x] division.[read more]
Can Energy Storage Make Wind and Solar Energy as Reliable as Coal?
Wind and solar power generated 3.5% and about 0.1%, respectively, of US electricity last year. To what extent could more and cheaper storage enable wind and solar to function as the equivalent of high-utilization, baseload generation?[read more]
Wind Energy and the Myth of Widespread Negative Pricing
Wind only sets the market price if it is the most expensive resource on the system, and that almost never happens because wind has a zero fuel cost. If wind is setting the price, everything else in the area has been turned off.[read more]
Solar and Wind Energy: Value in Restating the Obvious about Renewables
This idea, that you build wind farms where it is windy and solar panels where it is sunny is a curiously controversial one. Some would even lobby accusations of you being “anti-renewables” if you put it forward.[read more]
Wind Energy Growing Faster than Coal in China: False Math
Now, the inexorable growth of coal in China in the last decade is often news even to people who make some kind of living writing about energy, but could it possibly be slowing down? And could wind be growing faster than coal?[read more]
Renewable Energy's Popularity: Support for Wind Farms?
How many people support renewables or nuclear energy, or for that matter fracking? A closer to look at polls shows that support numbers should be treated with caution.[read more]
Warren Buffett Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wind Energy
When Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy announced the new investment, it gave full credit to the extension of the production tax credit for enabling it to expand its wind generating capacity.[read more]
Women in the Wind Energy Industry
Women are under-represented in wind and the other renewable energy industries, according to Kristen Graf, Executive Director of Women of Wind Energy.[read more]
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]
Community Power: Loans for Community-Based Renewable Energy
The most successful way of letting many people participate in energy production is through community energy co-operatives. They allow the broader public to share in the profits of energy production.[read more]
Bringing Financing & Technology Together In Support of Energy Investments
Not only is there increasing demand for energy in the world, there is also increasing awareness as to the importance of renewable energy development for a better world. Funding for such development, however, is becoming more difficult to come by. Can in-house financing provide a solution?[read more]
Energy Efficiency: Reversing the Drop in Combined Heat and Power Use
Combined heat and power (CHP) is an underutilized tool that could have a huge impact on industrial energy efficiency. But how do the benefits of CHP stack up against building new wind, solar, or natural gas facilities?[read more]
Offshore Wind Energy in Europe: €130 Billion Market By 2020
Europe is expected to continue dominating the global offshore wind industry, but the Asia Pacific and North American regions will soon represent significant market shares as technological innovations reduce many bottlenecks[read more]
Talking Wind Energy and Analytics with New GE Renewables Head Anne McEntee
Newly appointed GE Renewable Energy VP Anne McEntee, who will run the world leading wind division, met with a group of reporters to talk shop at Windpower 2013, the industry’s annual conclave.[read more]
GE Adds Energy Storage to Its Brilliant Wind Energy Turbine
After premiering its 2.5-megawatt, 120-meter rotor Brilliant wind turbine in February, GE is now announcing the commercial installation of the first three models that will integrate energy storage capability.[read more]
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