By Gwendolyn Brown The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Radina Valova as its new Regulatory Vice President. Valova will provide strategic direction and oversight of IREC’s Regulatory Program, which works in states across the country to advance distributed energy resource (DER) regulatory best practices, in support of a…
By Charley Rattan The Offshore Wind sector has been a remarkable success story; here the hydrogen sector looks to similar benefits the the UK economy including jobs and regional regeneration opportunities as it seeks stakeholder support for the next phase of the energy transition. The UK hydrogen industry could become an £18bn economy for the…
By EDF Energy Exchange By Rama ZakariaThis post was co-authored by Drew Stilson, Senior Analyst, U.S. Climate Policy at EDF In an update to a previous analysis from EDF and M.J. Bradley & Associates, our latest modeling shows significant environmental benefits stemming from Pennsylvania’s proposed plan to cap power sector carbon emissions and participate in…
By Energy in Depth The stay at home orders have caused an increase in residential energy demand and a rise in electricity costs for families across the country. According to a recent Indiana University survey, the higher energy costs are disproportionately affecting low-income individuals and people of color, who were already suffering from high unemployment,…
By Brian Wang The Lucid Air electric car has been independently tested with an estimated EPA range of 517 miles on a single charge. This range appears to be for a 175 or 205 kWh from two battery packs for an extended range vehicle that costs over $100,000. The Tesla Model S has a range…
By Energy in Depth As Texas producers look ahead to the future, additional infrastructure – like pipelines – are needed to help facilitate a post-pandemic recovery and help drive important environmental and economic benefits. But proposed projects have faced significant opposition from fringe environmental activists promoting misinformation about the safety and importance of pipelines, and…
By Michael Mazengarb BHP reverses support for Australia’s use of Kyoto surplus credits, issues new set of standards on climate advocacy that puts lobby groups on notice. The post BHP backtracks dodgy ‘Kyoto surplus’ accounting trick, puts fossil fuel lobby groups on notice appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
By STAN KAPLAN In addition to the big solutions — solar, wind, batteries, pipeline hydrogen — the future of power will likely also include many niche solutions. Here is an example. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy &…
By Jay Stein As offices and businesses reopen after being shut down for the coronavirus pandemic, it’s incumbent upon owners and operators to upgrade heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to minimize virus transmission. There are certainly plenty of articles and whitepapers providing advice regarding how to do so. Most of these sources are…
By Terry Cooke The TEA Collaboration blog regularly posts on issues relating to U.S.-China clean energy cooperation. ‘The Sixty-Seven Percent Solution” is the latest post from that blog. It provides an overview of the past 12 years of official, Presidential-level cooperation as originally conceived and launched by Hank Paulson, President George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary….
By Laurent Segalen Wind and Solar will keep their lead.Predicting the future is not easy, but some predictions are easier than others.The World Economic Forum convened experts from several organizations including IEA, IRENA, BNEF and IHS Markit as well as manufacturers and other energy leaders to agree the 2030 trajectory for wind and solar PV….
By STAN KAPLAN There is a misconception that nuclear (and coal) plants have inherently superior reliability than other generation sources. Coal plants and their transportation links can fail in bad weather, including very cold weather. A nuclear plant must go offline if it loses redundant access to grid power, which is what happened in this…
By Joe Deely Wow… now that’s a lot of storage. An already groundbreaking year for battery storage in the United States gained further momentum with Vistra Corp.’s recently granted permit to expand an energy storage system under construction at its natural gas-fired Moss Landing CC on the shores of California’s Monterey Bay to 1,500 MW/6,000…
By Joe Deely Solar is exploding in TX. Should hit 10% of ERCOT share by 2025.From article:With technological innovations, the cost of developing solar farms has dropped about 40 percent in Texas in the last five years, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). And once a solar farm is built, it’s inexpensive to…
By STAN KAPLAN One factor in the decline of coal has been the antediluvian perspective of elements of the industry and its supporters. Here is an example from the latest issue of Coal Age, where we learn that the nation has been fixated on “questionable COVID-19 figures and the riots in urban centers.” The cluelessness…