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CNG Vehicles Ramping Up

At this year’s OKC Auto Show, there was a rather substantial push going on for CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) vehicles, in a special CNG exhibit.  Oklahoma is among the leading states for CNG and the economy here is dominated by the oil and gas...

Posted March 18, 2013    

BRC Offers Strategy for Today’s Nuclear Waste, Is Deadlocked on Tomorrow’s

The DOE’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future has published a draft of its report to the secretary of energy (http://brc.gov and BRC Draft Report, 192 pages long)The big thing the Blue Ribbon Commission was able to agree on,...

Posted August 12, 2011    

20MW Gemasolar Plant: Elegant, But Pricey

Torresol Energy has announced the commissioning of its Gemasolar CSP electrical plant.  It went on-line 5/24/2011, with a maximum output of 19.9 MW, and 15 hours of thermal energy storage, which allows it generate power 24 hours per day many...

Posted June 6, 2011    

What’s in the IEA’s roadmaps to carbon-free electricity?

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has begun releasing a set of technology roadmaps (IEA Roadmaps ) that describe a 40 year long transition to a low carbon energy future, with targets, milestones, and policy needs.  The individual roadmaps...

Posted June 11, 2010    

US DOE NREL plans up to 30% wind for Eastern US

The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab has released its EWITS report. http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/ewits.html The Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study investigated three scenarios...

Posted January 24, 2010