Many people use radiators, boilers, air systems, and storage heaters to heat their homes. Although these options are effective, they use a lot of energy throughout the winter. If you have major heating problems, there are five heating alternatives that …
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Five New Innovative and Energy Efficient Ways to Solve your Home's Heating Problems
Tagged with: biomass, energy efficiency, energy efficient, geothermal, geothermal energy, heat pumps, solar heating
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Five Benefits to Geothermal Heating for Your Home
One option you should consider for heating your home is geothermal power. Geothermal energy comes from deep within the earth and is produced by things like molten magma. There are many great benefits to tapping this amazing source of energy …
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Outrageous Energy Sources of the Future
Every week or so, someone sends me an article from a popular magazine that covers futuristic sources of energy. I’d sound rather like the Grinch if I said I objected to publications like this, though I have to confess that …
Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy
As I’ve mentioned, I receive several new clean energy business concepts per week, mostly rooted in proven technology. The scientific mechanisms behind solar, wind, biomass, hydrokinetics and geothermal are all very well-established, and have been for a great period of …
Tagged with: biomass, Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy, geothermal, Hydrokinetics, solar energy, Wind Energy
Clean Business Investment Summit
Pictured here is Gillian Christie, among the most talented, charming and energetic people I know, who runs a fabulous marketing agency called Christie Communications in Santa Barbara. I’ve gotten to know her very well over the past few years, due …
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
U.S. Department of Interior — Assisting in Geothermal
I tend to be critical of the U.S. government’s failure to take on a leadership role in promoting renewable energy, but I forget how far we’ve come. This piece describing the U.S. Department of Interior opening up public lands for …
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Rethinking the Regulation of Our Electric Utilities
Here’s an article that points to one of the many issues we face in our quest to integrate large amounts of solar energy into our grid-mix: all this distributed generation is making it tough for the utilities. In 43 of …
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Tagged with: consumer awareness programs encourage energy efficiency, distributed generation, Energy conservation, energy storage, FERC chief nominee Ron Binz, geothermal, high-voltage transmission lines, integrating solar energy into our grid-mix, investments in grid infrastructure, microwind, net-metering programs, New York Times, no free lunch, progressive force in the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ramp-down of coal, Regulation of Our Electric Utilities, smart meters, solar
Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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Tagged with: advanced rail, biomass, CAES, compressed air energy storage, Doty Windfuels, flavors of renewables, flywheels, geothermal, grid mix, Hydrokinetics, off-peak energy production, pumped hydro, solar, solar energy, synthetic gasoline and diesel, Thermodynamics, utility-scale installations of PV and solar thermal, variable energy resources, wind, Wind Energy
