Sooner or later, utility customers end up paying for the costs of smart grid deployments in the form of increases in their electricity rates. But how much return are they getting for […]
3 Models That Could Help Utilities Make Money From Solar
When the world wide web first came onto the scene, the dominant supplier of proprietary software, Microsoft, was forced to adopt the internet to stay relevant. Could there be a lesson here […]
Thousands of German Cities and Villages Attempt to Buy Back Their Power Grid
Boulder, Colorado and Hamburg, Germany don’t seem to have too much in common. One is a small, green-minded city at the foothills of the Rockies, the other one is the second biggest […]
Volatility at the Grid Edge Drives Investment by Hydro One
On the southern shores of the Georgian Bay, Owen Sound is providing a glimpse into the future of electricity production and distribution in Ontario. The town, northwest of Toronto, is the first […]
NREL Releases New Roadmap to Reducing Solar PV “Soft Costs” by 2020
Golden CO (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 The Energy Department’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a new report, "Non-Hardware (‘Soft’) Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013-2020," […]
Fukushima and our inability to gauge risk
Perhaps the most important energy story on the planet right now is the precarious situation for fuels rods stored in a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan, site […]
Geology beats technology: Shell shuts down oil shale pilot project
The belief that technology can always overcome natural limits just took a big hit this week when Royal Dutch Shell PLC decided to shut down its pilot oil shale project in western […]
German wind and solar produced as much 60% on 3 October
Wind and solar produced as much as 60% of Germany’s electricity during the 3 October, according to an energy consultant. via News – PV-Tech http://www.pv-tech.org/news/german_wind_and_solar_produced_as_much_60_on_3_october?utm_source=pvtech-feeds&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-rss-feed
New York ISO Mulls Market Relief for New Renewable Energy Generation
The New York Independent Service Operator (NYISO) claims it would "support in principle" future exemptions for renewable energy generation in buyer-side mitigation efforts to control new energy generation. It’s an example of […]
Desalination: The Science
I discussed the effects of climate change on the water cycle in a previous blog (September 3). I focused on the fact that while the water cycle is not a perfect cycle, […]
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