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Solar Energy Grows Up, So Now What?
Solar is no longer irrelevant to utility planning. It’s grown up and has earned a seat at the big kids table. But that also means the rules are going to change. The solar energy industry needs to plan accordingly.[read more]
New Bill Could Help Georgia Reap Solar Energy Cash Crop
Georgia is the third best state for solar energy in the U.S., but ranks 35th in actual solar installs, even though the cost of panels has decreased 33 percent. Georgia's state government aims to change that.[read more]
Renewable Energy at New Generating Capacity: Three-Fold Increase From Last Year
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reports that 1,231 megawatts of new in-service generating capacity came online in January of 2013 – all of it from renewable sources including wind, solar and biomass.[read more]
The Case for Grid-Connected Energy Storage
If the highest objective of new energy technology is to provide greater flexibility to manage the electricity grid in ways that society deems most beneficial, then no technology—not wind, not solar, not biomass, not new transmission technology—is more important to develop than energy storage technology.[read more]
Texas Transmits the Future
Recently the Texas Public Utilities Commission gave initial approval to adding nearly $5B in transmission lines to the state, expected to help bring West Texas wind to the major Texas cities. I asked my friend Vanessa, who has worked in the wind industry for years, if she thought the approved package is a good as it looks. ...[read more]
Escaping the Grid
It’s been a while since I last blogged here. Not for lack of stuff to blog about; this is a topic that will just get louder and more active as time goes on. But I’ve been busy serving clients. In my early communal days, I can honestly say that I lived almost completely off-grid for a couple years. This was living an ambitiously...[read more]
For Googlez Sake, 26.7 Quads!
This blog has reported upon a project underway to test some of the possibilities of an Emerging Smart Grid. We now have learned from Toronto Treehugger Lloyd Alter that the New York Times finally got it right: It’s The Efficiency, Stupid: “It’s gone before you even knew it was there: As energy is unlocked from fuels at power plants,...[read more]
Dept. of Energy Selects Grid R&D Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will contribute $50 million in federal funding to nine demonstration projects to modernize the nation's electrical energy grid, with the goal of reducing the peak load electricity demand by 15 percent over five years. The list of demonstration projects are as follows: 1.Allegheny...[read more]
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