The Paris Agreement, a truly landmark climate accord, which was gaveled through on Saturday, December 12, 2015, at 7:26 pm (Paris time) at the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21), checks all […]
Paris and Building on the Future
California Net Metering 2.0 Keeps Retail Rates for Rooftop Solar
California regulators have proposed a future net metering regime that will preserve retail payments for residential rooftop PV.However, the proposal would add new interconnection costs and non-bypassable charges to distributed solar systems, […]
The coming electrification of everything
Stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives. via Renew Economy http://ift.tt/1NMKf9j
Big Oil bracing for fight to keep payments hidden
Washington a Big energy companies are bracing for the next round in their fight to stop U.S. regulators from making them reveal what they pay foreign governments for rights to extract oil, […]
Early Tesla Drive Units Likely To Need Replacement
A Weibull reliability analysis reveals that 2/3 of early Tesla drive units need to be replaced by 60,000 miles. So far, repairs have been under warranty. The post Early Tesla Drive Units […]
The Audacity of Increasing Proppant
Seems like it happens all the time, doesn’t it? You’ve been craving your favorite dish at your go-to restaurant all week. You finally get there on Friday night only to find out […]
The Fuel Cell Vehicle Rollout Has Begun But Infrastructure Remains A Problem
In late October of this year, Toyota finally began U.S. customer deliveries of its long-awaited Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle and by the end of 2015 it should be highest volume FCV […]
Disruptive Deceptions: How Electric Utilities Stifled Rooftop Solar
In January 2013, the Edison Electric Institute, an investor-owned electric utility trade group based in Washington DC, published a report describing the financial risks posed by distributed energy resources for electric utilities […]
New legislation affects U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Two recently enacted laws authorize significant sales of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next decade. The Bipartisan Budget Act authorizes the sale of 58 million barrels of […]
Renewables Grew to 15.5% of US Electricity Capacity in 2014
A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable via IEEE Spectrum Recent Content http://ift.tt/1HWWj7y
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