I hope readers will check out 2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie’s insightful comments at the bottom of our intern Kevin Kuttumkal’s post Additional Electric Vehicles Can Reduce California’s “Duck Curve.”
Tag: grid mix
Plotting a Course Towards Sustainable Energy Means Bringing Many Disparate Technologies Together
In response to my bearish post the other day on vehicle-to-grid, Gary Tulie writes this terse note: A project was recently launched in the UK to install 1000 vehicle to grid capable chargers. There is no doubt that a clean …
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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Hydrogen as a Device for Energy Storage
Earlier today I wrote a post in which I pointed out the impracticality of hydrogen as a “fuel,” to which frequent commenter Aaron writes: The US, even with a “smart grid” isn’t likely to get more than 16 hours of effective solar …
Renewables and Energy Storage
Frequent commenter Garth writes: Remember ANY successful business that runs a supply line for their product must have storage or they face shortages and customer loss – energy is no different and storage is the answer. I just can’t explain …
When Does the Future Begin for Renewable Energy?
Duke Brooks asks: Renewable/green energy without question is the future; the question is: When, exactly, does that future begin? Here are a few ways I would choose to frame this: The vast majority of our scientists tell us that climate …
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Energy Storage Provides Many Benefits, But … It's Complicated
I always look forward to the Storage Week show each June, as the whole enterprise of energy storage is so important and so multi-varied. Over 95% of the world’s installed energy storage is pumped hydro, but there are a dozen …
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IBM’s Vice President of Energy and Utilities — Making a Difference in Electric Transportation
Here’s another quick note from San Diego, where I’m spending the day at the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Infrastructure USA 2012. I just had a great conversation with Allan Schurr, IBM’s Vice President of Energy and Utilities. I performed quite a …
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation Leads the Way in OTEC
As the name suggests, Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation, which I visited on my last trip back to the East Coast, is one of the leaders in the development of OTEC (ocean thermal energy conversion), a technology with huge potential to …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, Amy Maddox, clean energy, desalination, Ed Rendell, energy in oceans’ warm surface waters, environmental benefits, green energy, grid mix, ocean thermal energy conversion, Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation, OTEC, OTECorporation, potable drinking water, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Finance Forum, Underneath We’re All the Same
How Green Are YOUR Electrons?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Xc7VM957U] Here’s a brief video in which I discuss a software platform that, for the first time, provides users — both consumers and businesses — the capability of specifying electricity that was generated from renewable resources. The result? Over …
