A long time ago, it seems, those who questioned intermittent electricity like wind and solar thought it was impossible for a power grid to handle more than 2%, then 5% then 10% and 20%, etc – you get the point. Today the argument in academic circles is around...
Two electricity utilities are in different places than they were a year or two ago – all because of renewables. Two stories I wrote for pv magazine this week – the first, Another gas plant spurned as renewable energy takes over in California, and the...
The goal of using blockchain technology – versus a standard centralized utility – is that individual energy storage and solar power systems can talk directly to each other. Currently, the large electricity utilities talk to large scale distributed solar...
What we’re seeing is a broad shift. Little plants installations, everyday across the country eating away. Bite by bite, plant by plant, state by state. The second tweet below shows a the Southwest Power Pool – a broad groups of states under management of a...
Huge amounts of energy float around us that we don’t collect. Mostly it doesn’t make sense due to energy density and our broader needs – nor our technological capabilities, and so to align with the economics of reality we burn fossil fuels. However,...
Cool thought – deliver solar power, with racking and wiring already in place, in stacked format with wheels in shipping containers. The world has learned how to deliver shipping containers like no other thing on the planet. Some ratio of these units to shipping...