A report from the IEA says 1.26 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2015. That’s a good sign, but there is a long way to go before electric cars go mainstream […]
Renewables Are Getting Cheaper. But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Eliminate Subsidies, Says IEA
Now that renewable energy has become the lowest-cost source of electricity in a growing number of energy markets, one might assume that the growth of generation technologies like wind and solar will […]
Rising wholesale markets improving economics of home battery storage
Your author recently attended the Australian Energy Storage conference and exhibition held over two days at the Australian Technology Park Sydney. Two full days on batteries (and other forms of storage) what […]
Solar Will Replace Nearly All Retiring Coal in Texas
In the next 15 years, Texas expects to add somewhere between 14 and 27 gigawatts of solar capacity, according to a new long-term system assessment from the state’s grid operator, ERCOT. ERCOT […]
Train-Pumped Energy For Grid-Scale Power Storage
New advances in batteries and storage technologies for electricity may soon solve one of the most vexing issues with wind and solar energy – dealing with their intermittency. The wind and sun […]
Thinking global: China’s coal-fired energy conundrum
In China about 150GW of new coal plants will likely be completed over the 2016- 2018 time frame. The plants are being built because lower coal prices (half what they were) and relatively fixed […]
Brookings Institute: net-metered solar a net benefit to all utility customers
PV Magazine The prestigious Washington D.C. think tank’s analysis of existing literature shows a broad consensus that net metering – where solar households receive the same rate as the general electricity tariff […]
Why rooftop solar – and full retail feed in tariffs – benefits all consumers
(Ed: The issue of feed in tariffs is a critical one in all countries, particularly Australia, where new tariffs offer a fraction of the retail price. Yet this detailed study from the […]
Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Get the Best of Both Worlds
Many years ago, I was part of a U.S. Air Force program with the goal of reducing the battery weight carried by airmen and soldiers by 25 percent. The Air Force Program […]
Oil: Not Yesterday’s Fuel, Just Yet
The new hype is to say that the end of the oil age is near. In the long run, the importance of oil will diminish, write Peter Simon Vargha, Chief Economist at […]
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