Here’s a piece from our new intern Kevin Kuttumkal, covering the latest development in smart grid and smart cities, and how they affect energy markets. Enjoy. -ed
Tag: demand response
In the Energy Industry and Elsewhere, We’re Surrounded by BS
I get a real charge out of obviously disingenuous remarks. Yesterday we had Donald Trump’s thanking Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 members of the U.S. state department from Russia, on the basis that this will reduce the U.S. federal government’s …
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How Important is “Vehicle-to-Grid” in the EV Adoption Curve?
There is no doubt that electric transportation will make terrific headway over the coming couple of decades. Here, Forbes suggests that one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs. Fair enough. But the author goes on …
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Tagged with: affordable batteries at utility-scale, demand response, electric transportation, enabling the grid to absorb peak power from idle EVs, ensemble of renewable energy coming on line, high voltage transmission, integration of different types of renewables with different availability profiles, one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs, storage associated with EVs, tipping point for renewable energy, V2G, vehicle-to-grid
Can We Combat Climate Change Without Nuclear Power?
A colleague in Oklahoma writes: Thought you might find this Ted Talk on nuclear power interesting. It’s introduced as follows: Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost …
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Tagged with: aneutronic fusion, combined heat and power, compete economically with fossil fuels, demand response, developing clean secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable low-cost energy, dispatchable power vs. baseload, disposal of nuclear waste, improving cost-effectiveness of solar, load shifting, new nuclear technologies, proliferation of nuclear weapons, Ted Talk on nuclear power, thorium
How Abundant Is Lithium?
A reader asks, “Has it been determined whether the world’s supply of lithium is sufficient to produce enough battery capacity to make renewables reliable?” It’s a complicated question, unfortunately. Perhaps it’s best summed up by what the CEO of a …
If V2G Happens, Its Donors Will Be Extremely Well Paid
Here’s a note to the readers who believe: V2G will never happen because an EV owner would not want to drain their battery (costing cycle life) leaving them with the possibility that it would not be recharged when they needed …
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New York’s Radical New Approach to Utility Regulation
Apparently, the State of New York is on a path to uproot its current approach to utility regulation and establish an altogether new structure by which consumers are encouraged to buy and sell power that they generate in a distributed …
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Weighing the Benefits of Smart Grid
Like Jesse Berst, my colleague at SmartGridNews, I too am suspicious of claims that consumers of electrical power are motivated solely by lower costs. However, I find it hard to believe that some of these other benefits of smart grid, …
The Transformation of Our Power Utilities
Here’s another article on the megatrend by which our utilities are being transformed, due to the pressures of distributed generation (DG), integrating renewables, demand response/peak shaving, etc. The net: some bright college kids predict that, by 2020, the utilities will …
Times Are Changing Quickly in the Power Utility Space
One of our interns who spent the summer working on our companion site SustainabilityRoleModels.com wrote a good article on Southern California Edison’s numerous sustainability initiatives, and arranged for me to speak with one of SCE’s spokespeople, Evan Birenbaum. Late yesterday, …
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Tagged with: biomass resources, demand response, Edison International, Evan Birenbaum, geothermal, integration of electric vehicles, investor-owned utility, IOU, micro-grids, minimizing the ecological effects of delivering power, renewable energy procurement, renewable power sources, SCE’s parent company, small hydropower, smart meters, solar energy, solar energy giant Socore, Southern California Edison, sustainability initiatives, SustainabilityRoleModels.com, Wind Energy, wind farms in Tehachapi
