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Tag Archives: PV
Load Shifting With Electric Vehicles is a Great Match to Wind in Many Areas
Much of the best wind resource in the country peaks at night time. To date this has proven challenging for the Texas electricity grid management. It has been resolved somewhat due to transmission grid upgrades but still promises to limit … Continue reading
20% Efficiency Becoming the New Normal for PV
Not so long ago, SunPower’s high efficiency PV modules were an industry novelty and considered a specialty premium item. With greater than 20% efficiency they allowed relatively large capacity in a compact footprint. However as the price of PV modules … Continue reading
Renewable Energy Databook from NREL
Better late than never, NREL put out a renewable energy databook that covers RE through the end of 2013. It is full of charts and graphs that do a nice job of illustrating RE progress in the US and the … Continue reading
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WIND: WIND INTERMITTENCY IS EXAGGERATED – NREL study shows US wind potential is larger and more stable than previously thought with capacity factors of 65% available, see details HERE. Better even than Handleman Post predictions, that capacity factors of 50% … Continue reading
About Storage and the Cost of Peaking Power
Here is an article that suggests that 20% of the cost of electricity comes from operating peakers 100 hours per year i.e. about 1% of the time. In other words, peakers are at about 6X the price of regular power. … Continue reading
Posted in EV PEV, New Energy Paradigm, Path to a New Paradigm, Storage
Tagged Energy Storage, EV, PV, Storage, Wind Power
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World PV Capacity Equivalent to 30 Nuclear Power Plants
Growth of solar energy continues to ramp rapidly. With 2013 figures released we see solar at 137GW which is equivalent to about 30 nuclear power plants.
What Percentage of the Worlds Land Area Would Be Required to Run Everything With Solar?
0.3% of the earths surface is what is required to harvest the energy needed for all of humanity’s electrical and auto transportation needs. That is for 10 billion living with the same energy intensity as in the US. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged EV, Photovoltaics, PV, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Paradigm
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Renewables In Perspective
This Sandia paper offers insights as to the potential for various renewable energy sources. This is one of the sources that Elon Musk is using to guide his vision. Richard Perez offers similar information graphically, see below.
Posted in New Energy Paradigm, Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged PV, Renewable Energy, solar, Solar Energy, Solar Paradigm, wind, Wind Energy, Wind Power
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Tesla to Give Away Intellectual Property and Bring Solar to Cost Parity
What an amazing guy this Elon Musk is. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you http://blog.solarcity.com/silevo/ About Silevo
Posted in EV PEV, New Energy Paradigm, Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged EV, PEV, PV, PV Cost Reduction, PV Growth, Renewable Energy
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Utility Scale Solar Cost Halves in 4 Years
Great progress is being made in lowering the cost of PV. This report on utility scale PV generation shows recent progress. UPDATE: Dubai paves the way and gets there several years early. Other renewable energy and related cost reduction trends … Continue reading
Posted in New Energy Paradigm
Tagged PV, PV Cost Reduction, solar, Solar Energy, Solar Paradigm
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