North American utilities have installed nearly 50 million smart meters across their service territories, ranging from massive investor-owned utility deployments that count into the millions, to rural co-op and municipal systems that […]
IEA: Urban Transport Gains Could Save $70 Trillion Globally by 2050
Business-as-usual scenarios for global energy consumption and carbon emissions are always extremely depressing. So it’s no surprise that the International Energy Agency’s latest assessment of our current transportation policies paints a pretty […]
Wholesale electricity prices rose across the United States
Average on-peak, day-ahead wholesale electricity prices rose in every region of the Lower 48 states in first-half 2013 compared to first-half 2012. The most important factor was the rise in the price […]
Is humanity smarter than a protozoan?
New work on the Genuine Progress Indicator shows that global GDP is increasing, but global economic welfare no longer is. Can our species stop expanding before it hits limits? via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/is-humanity-smarter-than-a-protozoan/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed
As Phone Companies Dismantle Landlines, Utilities Have a Lesson to Learn
As the economics of distributed energy, storage and demand-side management continue to improve, the warnings about coming radical changes to traditional electric utility business models grow louder. One of the most recent ominous […]
Your Cost to Buy an Electric Car? The Wall Street Journal Calls it $0.00
New tax incentives are combining with lower retail prices to make the cost of choosing an EV as your next new car almost zero. That claim comes courtesy of the Wall Street […]
Doomsday: Will Peak Phosphate Get us Before Global Warming?
Although climate change catches the headlines, it is not the only doomsday scenario out there. A smaller but no less fervent band of worriers think that peak phosphate—a catastrophic decline in output […]
Graphene isn’t the only 2D material. Here are a few others that could change material science
Molybdenum disulfide, germanane and silicene all have properties that make them more appealing than graphene for certain applications. via Cleantech http://gigaom.com/2013/07/19/graphene-isnt-the-only-2d-material-here-are-a-few-others-that-could-change-material-science/
Intermittency Of Renewables? … Not So Much
Zachary Shahan is the director of CleanTechnica who focuses on solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and wind energy. Reposted from CleanTechnica with permission. By Zachary Shahan via CleanTechnica. Below was a great […]
Solar PV: The true value of distributed energy
How to measure the costs and benefits of the DPV market? A new study finds the devil – and the solution – in the detail. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/solar-pv-the-true-value-of-distributed-energy-68151?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solar-pv-the-true-value-of-distributed-energy-68151
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