A reader asked for my comments on the following: I have just been reading about the various ways CO2 is captured from power plants and then transported and stored — underground and underwater. I don’t get it…we applaud companies for reducing their …
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Notes on Our Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy Policy
Tagged with: 96% of all manufactured products are made from hydrocarbons, baseload, Climate Change, CO2, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy storage, fossil fuels, growing population of increasingly urbanized consumers, ocean acidification, renewable energy sources, solar and wind, variable resources, water and food shortages
Ontario, Canada — A Smart Grid Leader By Any Standards
Ontario, Canada is well known as a leader in the adoption of clean energy technology. Their fabled feed-in-tariffs have provided incentive for developers all over the globe to site renewable energy projects in the province. And certainly their adoption of …
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Tagged with: Clean technology, energy storage, Ontario, Renewable Energy, smart grid, Smart meter, Western Hemisphere
Energy Efficiency Sounds So Good, But Where Are the Incentives To Make It Happen?
Here’s an article that illustrates a principle I often discuss here: the lack of proper incentives and regulation to get the power utilities to embrace energy efficiency. As a society, we need to use less energy, but that will only …
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Demand Response Is a Big Deal
It’s been only two years since FERC (The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) announced that it would allow DR (demand response) to be treated the same as any other dispatchable power source. But in those two years, a great deal …
Renewable Energy and a Clash of the Titans
Here’s an article that communicates the truth of the clean energy scene i.e., that fossil fuels have more than enough clout in this world to have survived the short-term threat to their existence, and will remain prominent in the global …
Tagged with: carbon trading schemes, clean energy, energy storage, environment heat up, fossil fuel energy artificially cheap, global climate change, global energy picture, level playing field for renewable energy, Master Limited Partnerships, MLPs, put a price on carbon, renewable energy credits, smart grid, solar and wind cost tools to raise capital, solar energy, solar wind ROI disappointed investors, subsidies to oil industry, Wind Energy
Talking Up Eos Energy Storage at the Energy Efficiency Summit
I’m taking a break from the activities at this, the second and last day of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s annual Energy Efficiency Summit to write this short note. My friends at Eos Energy Storage would have been …
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Tagged with: energy, energy storage, Lead–acid battery, Steven Chu, storage, technology, University of California, zinc-air battery
From Guest Blogger Nick: Energy Storage – the Next Breakthrough Technology?
Renewable power is one of the major ways that people will use energy in future. The fossil fuels that were the basis of the vast improvements in living over the past 250 years are declining. Apart from the damage they …
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Advanced Rail Energy Storage — Webinar
Here’s a webinar I conducted yesterday on Advanced Rail Energy Storage, or ARES, a new concept in cost-effective, grid-scale energy storage. I interviewed ARES CEO Jim Kelly, and covered a range of issues spanning the physics and economics of energy …
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Power Storage
Many times the subject of power storage has come up on this forum. Today it becomes an issue for me personally again and this is an ongoing issue. Not quite 3.5 years ago I purchased 4 deep cycle 12 volt …
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From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Solar Energy Hotels — The Future Is Bright
The resort and hotel business is extremely competitive and costly. As more and more hotels become increasingly extravagant, they require evermore energy to run. Many are switching to green renewable energies to cut costs and in theory they could eventually …
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