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Tag Archives: Wind Power
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
Ocean Thermal
Ocean Thermal Energy is an interesting technology. This post on The Energy Collective covers many of the details. However I think it unlikely that it will be pursued aggressively. The infrastructure that would need to be put in place would … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Path to a New Paradigm
Tagged Ocean Thermal, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Power
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Do Wind Turbines Kill Birds? Not so Much.
The Anti-Wind community (yes, there really is such a thing) loves to make up problems that do not exist. One is to point out the bird kill problem with wind turbines. This is a “thing” because the first major wind … 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
Energy Bootcamp
This post offers a good overview of the basics needed to understand energy. Physics, energy introduction.
Posted in Resources and Information
Tagged capacity factor, Education, Electric Vehicle, Energy, Energy Storage, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Storage, Wind Energy, Wind Power
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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
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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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
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