It doesn’t sound like a piece of cake to be a CEO of a power utility. Sure, as we have discussed elsewhere, there are ways to lock in and hide profits, while staving off the world’s insistence that we migrate …
Tag: Solar Thermal
Oil Companies’ Participation in Clean Energy
In the Renewable Energy Finance Forum session in which presenters from Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan, offered their observations on the industry, several pointed to the strategies that multinational oil companies (BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) have vis-à-vis …
"Grid Parity" – What Does It Mean and When Will It Happen?
At the Renewable Energy Finance Forum you’ll hear largely about the wins, where developers have taken the most mature clean energy technologies, addressed the many financial risk factors, and presented a can’t-lose package to a bank or other funding entity. …
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It's OK to Advocate for Renewables — and Against Its Enemies
I sometimes glance back through my old posts here, to try to see 2GreenEnergy as I would if I were doing so through the eyes of the typical reader who had come across us Googling “renewable energy” or some such. …
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Bizarre Times at the IEEE Energy Show in Boston
As I mentioned, I’m back in Boston for a couple days, attending the IEEE Energy Innovations show, and meeting a few industry colleagues who happen to be in the this part of the world. In a nutshell, the show itself …
From Guest Blogger SolarLighting: Can We Copy the solar success of NJ to the Other States of the US?
We are very glad to see that the solar industry is developing fast in the US. It is now a major economic driver for the country. When generating great amount of electricity, the solar industry is also creating many job …
Midterm Elections and Discussion of a Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard
Here’s a question for you now that mid-term elections are here. Do you have what it takes for a career as a political speechwriter? Here’s a one-question quiz that will help you find an answer. Suppose I were running for …
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Moore’s Law and the Trajectory for Renewable Energy
Each year, we come across a new set of discussions on the subject of Moore’s Law — the idea that the potency of technology doubles every two years. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors that could …
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The Challenge Facing Concentrating Solar Power — Utilities Want Mature Technology
A reader points out that in talking about utility scale solar, only mature technologies are used — usually 20 to 30 years mature or more. He observes how long it’s taken PV to be seriously considered for plants over 10mW. …
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[The Vector] Harnessing the Ocean for Energy: the New Frontier?
The world’s oceans are a new frontier in the renewable energy world. Ocean energy is emerging and will be ‘make or break’ in the next five years, says the firm Pike Research that focuses on research and analysis of renewable …
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