I think it’s time to call it. Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry towards inevitable […]
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Three possible business models for distributed storage
With more houses using distributed PV with battery storage but still needing a utility, how will distributed storage integrate into the current market? via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1lMUOsT
Minnesota Paves the Way for Solar Advocates Nationwide
The solar battle between utilities, stakeholders, solar customers and other rate payers is coming to an end—at least in Minnesota. Last Wednesday, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted in favor of […]
Ethanol’s Victory Could Be Ethanol’s Ruin
Investors expect the Environmental Protection Agency to back down from a proposal to reduce the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline this year—but reducing ethanol content may be the only way to […]
By The Time Natural Gas Has A Net Climate Benefit You’ll Likely Be Dead And The Climate Ruined | ThinkProgress
The evidence is mounting that natural gas has no net climate benefit in any timescale that matters to humanity. In the real world, natural gas is not a “bridge” fuel to a […]
Minnesota Adopts First Statewide Method For Calculating The Value Of Solar Power | ThinkProgress
On Wednesday, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted to become the first state in the nation to come up with a methodology for calculating the value of solar power generated by consumers […]
Postcard From the Future of Energy: Hawaii as a Solar Laboratory
From an energy perspective, Hawaii is unique. Located in the middle of the Pacific, the Aloha State runs on imported oil. But its island environment — from sunny days to active volcanoes […]
Adapt or Die? Private Utilities and the Distributed Energy Juggernaut
Last week I reviewed some of the disruptive challenges that the private, investor-owned utility (IOU) sector is facing in the transition to distributed renewable energy production, and they are serious. Last month, […]
Guessing Game: Tesla’s Gigafactory and Energy Storage Aims
Tesla made a splash last week with its proposed $5 billion “Gigafactory” and its eye-popping numbers: a 10 million square foot facility on an entire land area of 500-1,000 acres, with output […]
Is Utility 2.0 a Forecast or a Post-Mortem?
For the last six months, the energy news sphere (perhaps led by the Edison Electric Institute) has been rife with a discussion about the threat to the utility business from distributed energy […]
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