Frequent commenter John Roche writes: It’s been interesting reading your blogs. I’ll say I’m for the environment and have taken some renewable energy classes to complement my technical background. Will probably even install solar on mine and a friend’s house. …
Tag: vehicle-to-grid
Electric Transportation, Vehicle To Grid, and Wind Energy
There is so much general ignorance on the basic issues confronting renewable energy and electric transportation that it’s sometimes hard to know how to react to articles like this one on “vehicle to grid,” i.e., the concept that large number …
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Distributed Generation Could Eventually Dominate the Energy Landscape
About a year ago, I had lunch with the top two people from Forester Media, whose publications include Distributed Energy, and during our conversation I expressed my interest in co-promoting one another’s content. For my money, anyone who’s concerned with …
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The Adoption Curve for Electric Vehicles
Here’s an article that presents some specious logic associated with electric vehicle adoption. In particular, the greening of conventional vehicles militates away from, not towards, the adoption of EVs; the payback in fuel consumption for an EV is far more …
Tagged with: adoption of EVs, coal plants retired, coal-fired power plants, distributed generation, electric vehicle adoption, EV range, fossil fuel consumption, fossil fuels, greening of conventional vehicles, internalizing the externalities of gasoline, mid-sized wind, nuclear power plants, off-peak power, opportunity charging locations, smart grid, Tesla’s fast-charging locations, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, wind energy curtailed, wind energy negative prices
The Migration to Electric Transportation — It's Complicated
Here’s an overly simplistic article that questions the validity of electric vehicles as “green” transportation on the basis that coal is used to charge EVs. And here is one of the comments: “I power my electric car totally from solar …
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Tagged with: ancillary services, are electric vehicles green transportation, average grid-mix, battery energy density, charging EVs, coal-fired power plants, Continental Wind Power, distributed wind, Electric Vehicles, EVs, frequency regulation, gas-fired peaker plants, international competition for non-ferrous metals, midsized wind, migration to electric transportation, off-peak wind energy, scarcity of oil, smart-grid initiative, solar energy, solar PV panels, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, wind curtailment, Wind Energy, wind power
Many Different Industries Should Be Interested in the Clean Energy "Corporate Role Models" Blog
I began to write a private email to my colleague Stephan Williams who is helping out with our “Corporate Role Models” blog, when I realized there is really nothing private about it at all. Here are notes on the industries …
Tagged with: aerospace and defense, alternative fuel transportation, batteries, biomass, Boeing, building efficiency, cleantech, cleantech standards, corporate role models, electric transportation, etc. clean energy, fossil fuels, geothermal, intelligent integration of renewables into the grid-mix, LEED, new paradigm in transportation, nuclear energy, on-board computing for appliances, PV equipment, Renewable Energy, smart grid, Solar Thermal, Stephan Williams, supply of non-ferrous metals, Telematics, vehicle-to-grid
Electric Transportation and Solar Energy
A reader asked that I comment on this fairly euphoric piece, suggesting that the world economy can and will be revived with the aggressive adoption of electric transportation and photovoltaics. Here are a few bits and pieces of my reaction. …
Tagged with: adoption of electric transportation, Amory Lovins, burning coal, coal-fired power plants, corn ethanol, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, EV consumer value proposition, EVs, externalities, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, fracking, Jeremy Rifkin, lowest-cost baseload power, nuclear renaissance, oil companies, oil pipelines, our home planet, production tax credit, PV, smart grid, solar energy, solar power, subsidies for the oil companies, using energy more wisely, using less energy, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, Wind Energy, wind power, world economy
Green Auto Digest’s Stakeholder Advisory Board
Starting in June, I’ll be wearing yet another hat in this space. I just accepted an invitation to become a member of the “Stakeholder Advisory Board” for Green Auto Digest. The board will convene monthly, helping sort out thorny issues …
