About half of the people living in Africa do not have access to electricity, and that 50% figure rises rapidly when we look outside the urban areas. This results in poor health, limited education, large, unplanned families, and low personal …
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When 2GreenEnergy first came along a little over a decade ago, it appeared that ocean wave energy devices like the one shown in this video here might have a place in the constellation of renewables.
Does run-of-river hydro have the potential to make a contribution to our energy mix? Yes, in parts of the world that have incredible hydro resources that are hard to service with competitive technologies. By “incredible,” I mean strong, nearby rivers that …
It’s sad to see that run-of-river hydro hasn’t taken off, since it’s such an elegant way to extract the kinetic energy from moving water; such an approach has very little impact to aquatic life, and raises few other environmental concerns.
A reader notes: Renewable power generation technology faces three inherent problems: transmission, storage, and intermittent generating dynamics. Large scale economically viable storage solves the problems of all three to a major extent. We can but live in hope, and encourage all those …
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Even though it’s experiencing appreciable economic and political uncertainty, Brazil doesn’t seem to waver too much in its profound commitment to renewable energy. The vast majority of the 1.8 GW installed last year was wind energy, and, while I’m a …
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Over the past six years, I’ve sunk an enormous amount of time and other resources into vetting literally thousands of renewable energy business concepts to winnow out what I believe to be the very best investment opportunities in this arena. …
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A friend of mine whose life’s work is analyzing the forces that shape the health of Brazil’s consumer economy sent me this short and quite bearish paper on the subject. I respond: Thanks; this is interesting. However, from the standpoint …
The world of private capital isn’t in a horrible hurry to invest in cleantech start-ups–especially those that represent some level of technology risk. What’s interesting is how the entrepreneurs behind these new companies are thinking and behaving as a result. …
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Much has been written about the recent Wall Street Journal article asserting that the U.S. grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack which could have a crippling and long-lasting (18-month) effect. This, of course, is another good reason to push …
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