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Tag Archives: economics
Li_Ion at $270 / kWhr EV Tipping Point May Be Closer Than The Analysts Think
Nissan has just announced that they will provide replacement batteries for their Leaf cars for $6500 = $5500 after trade-in for your old battery pack. This puts Li-Ion battery packsat about $270 / kWhr. That is well within the range … Continue reading
Cost Projections For Lithium Ion Batteries
The experience curve for Li-Ion EV batteries shows a rapid rate of price reduction. There are some pretty optimistic numbers coming out from analysts for the cost of Lithium Ion batteries in the not to distant future. It is looking … Continue reading
Will We Be Held Hostage to Lithium
Tesla Motors is building the Gigafactory which will double the world production of Lithium Ion batteries from 2013 levels. With much of the rest of the automotive industry jumping on the Electric Vehicle (EV) bandwagon, there some are concerned that … Continue reading
Posted in EV PEV, Path to a New Paradigm, US Energy Competitiveness
Tagged economics, Electric Vehicle, Energy Storage, EV, PEV, Remedy to Intermitency, Storage
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Up To Date Cost Curves for Batteries, Solar and Wind
UPDATE: In 2015 the price of solar modules had dropped to $0.57 / Watt. By Clayton Handleman It has been observed for that for manufactured products, each time the total amount of that product is doubled, the cost declines by … Continue reading
Posted in Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged economics, Photovoltaics, PV Cost Reduction, Wind Energy, Wind Power
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Towards The New Grid Paradigm
This article highlights some of the challenges being faced in figuring out how to sell and monetize electricity. It is in large part about a meta-study done by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) that looks at the costs and benefits … Continue reading
Spain, A Cautionary Tale
Spain got overzealous and built an unsustainable renewable energy program. To much too fast. Does this mean don’t provide incentives for renewables? No it means be smart about designing your programs.
Renewables Cost Less Than Utilities Have Reported
Midwest utility lowers surcharge for RPS compliance. Translated that means that they had been claiming that adding renewables would be very costly. Now that the accounting has been done, they have lowered, and in some cases eliminated, the renewables surcharge. … Continue reading
Posted in Markets and Subsidies, Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged capacity factor, economics, Free Market, wind, Wind Energy, Wind Power
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Externalities
Many suggest that renewable energy gets an unfair break because it is subsidized. However they often fail to realize that fossil fuels and nuclear are also subsidized. Further, they have other costs that are not reflected in their price. In … Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuel, Markets and Subsidies, New Energy Paradigm, Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged economics, externalities, Subsidies
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A Graphic Showing External Costs Of Various Generation Technologies
This is a great graphic that shows how distorted the electricity market is. There are many who rule out renewable energy saying it has to make its way in the free market. But our current electricity market is not a … Continue reading
Fracking – Interesting Nat Geo Article
I just finished reading the paper version of this article. Very well done and interesting. Highly recommend it. There are several subthemes. The one that intrigued me was that the impact of the North Dakota oil rush is a relatively … Continue reading
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