Here’s a video featuring Renewable Energy World’s editor, Jennifer Runyon, discussing energy storage and the different roles it plays. She describes how, at one time, storage is a generation asset (providing power at peak moments and coping with the variability of …
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Lots of folks comment on the imperative to “get off the grid,” and I certainly understand that. I’m reminded of a young man who wrote to us shortly after 2GreenEnergy opened in 2009 who was so torqued with Pacific Gas and …
A happy consequence of humankind’s progress in energy technology is that all the major components associated with the generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of energy are improving simultaneously. Here at 2GreenEnergy, we tend to talk mainly about generation, perhaps because …
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Bill McKibben’s and my position on the Obama administration’s approach to energy policy and climate change are identical. In a sentence: Obama can’t have it both ways; he can’t simultaneously be proud of the fact that we now extract and …
I sat through a 75-minute-long session at Infocast’s “Storage Week” show yesterday, on the subject of the economics of energy storage. Three presenters took us through how they develop their models using fantastically complicated spreadsheets. For example, if we deploy …
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If you’re in the electrical utility business, getting the PUC’s approval to pass a cost you’ve incurred along to rate-payers is obviously a big deal; your goal is not to spend a nickel that you can’t recoup. But, where the …
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Next week I’ll be headed up to Santa Clara (about three hours’ drive north from here) for Infocast’s Annual “Storage Week” show. The event’s producers claim that storage is headed for “hockey stick” growth over the coming few years, and …
Guest blogger Cameron Atwood sent me this graph showing the increase in the use of solar and wind energy from 2005 to 2012. Impressive stuff. Here in the U.S., our grid-mix is currently comprised of more than 4% wind and …
In the video I’ve linked, the young CEO of a high-tech start-up called Amprius, Chinese-born Yi Cui, talking about his background (Ph.D. from Harvard, currently a professor at Stanford), but, more importantly, providing a summary of his passion: batteries built …
Taking my own advice and “following the money,” I note that Bill Gates is investing in a start-up whose product is utility-scale energy storage. We are not far from the robust expansion of renewable energy, propelled by this solution (“aqueous …
