There are nights, now and then, when I sit up late with a glass of bourbon and look back over the long strange trip that’s unfolded over the last thirty years or […]
Pumped storage provides grid reliability even with net generation loss – Today in Energy – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Pumped hydro storage plants serve an important role on electric power systems: they improve system-wide efficiency and reliability by allowing system operators to time-shift power generated during periods of low demand for […]
Staying afloat as assets get stranded
Stranded assets – assets that are unexpectedly or prematurely devalued, converted to liabilities or written off – are part of the creative destruction that drives capitalism. Asset stranding of this kind regularly […]
Implications of a Higher Estimate of Social Cost of Carbon
Carbon pollution harms the economy much more than the federal government previously estimated, according to the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon. While researchers continue to look for ways to […]
How Resource Limits Lead to Financial Collapse | Our Finite World
Resource limits are invisible, so most people don’t realize that we could possibility be approaching them. In fact, my analysis indicates resource limits are really financial limits, and in fact, we seem to […]
Energy Products: Return on Investment is Already Too Low
One major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low to […]
5 Leading-Edge Efficiency Programs in the US
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has just completed its third national review of exemplary efficiency programs. With over 60 programs being recognized, one thing is clear: energy efficiency programs have taken off […]
‘Invest, Divest’: Obama Goes Full Climate Hawk In Speech Unveiling Plan To Cut Carbon Pollution
Obama delivered a real stemwinder on the moral urgency of cutting carbon pollution (video, transcript below). So of course Politico reports, “Cable news skips Obama’s climate speech.” The President surprised everyone by […]
IDB Report: Renewables could meet the entire electricity needs of Latin America, Caribbean – SolarServer
Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy endowment is large enough to cover its projected 2050 electricity needs 22 times over, according to a new report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB; Washington, […]
Lessons Learned From SolarCity’s First Home Energy Storage Installs, Updated
SolarCity has reservations for at least 65 energy storage systems in California, according to the latest SGIP summary. (SGIP is California’s Self Generation Incentive Program, which provides a subsidy for fuel cells, […]
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