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Tag Archives: Renewable Energy
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
Texas Transmission Line Upgrades Slash Wind Curtailment
Featured on: CleanTechnica, REneweconomy, and The Energy Collective, By Clayton Handleman UPDATE: 2019 TX Wind Stats HERE: It is August and that means the latest version of The Wind Technologies Market Report (WTMR) has been released by the US DOE’s … 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
Popular and ‘Best-Of’ Posts
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
Norway Hydro
Norway has large hydro resources of about 30 GW. This offers storage that can be used to balance intermittent renewables in Europe. This article lays out many of the details of the opportunities, problems and pitfalls of using Norway as … Continue reading
Lazard’s LCOE Report is Out for 2014
Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy report looks at energy costs both with and without subsidies. Wind and solar continue to improve their position compared to other sources. This report is very helpful in teasing apart fact from hype regarding subsidies … Continue reading
Load Shifting With Electric Vehicles is a Great Match to Wind in Many Areas
Featured on: REneweconomy, Cleantechnica By Clayton Handleman EVs charge mostly at night. As EV battery prices drop and become a mass market item they offer the opportunity to soak up night time peaks allowing larger capacity of night peaking renewables … Continue reading
Growth of Windpower in Fascinating Interactive Graphic
For interactive graphic on US Windpower growth click Here . For Interactive graphic on world windpower growth – Click Here: If there is a Pop-up, Click the X at the upper right of the pop-up to make it go away. … Continue reading
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
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Tagged EV, Photovoltaics, PV, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Paradigm
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