UC–San Diego Researchers Tackle Microgrid Sharing Technology
Researchers at UC–San Diego are working on ways to permit neighbors to share renewable energy with each other in times of emergency using microgrid architecture.
Distributed Power
How Would A 100% Distributed Energy Grid Work?
Below is another initial version of an article I wrote for The Economist Group’s GE Look Ahead website (months ago). This one focuses on how a 100% or nearly 100% distributed energy grid would work, assuming a hypothetical grid like this ever came about. Again, this article seemed like something that CleanTechnica … [continued]
The Solar Right & The Arizona Test Case
Originally published in Let the Sunshine In: A Solar Power Blog. Barry Goldwater, Jr., the son of the late conservative Republican Presidential candidate – and Arizona native – Barry Goldwater (who was defeated by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 election), has always been very much a man after … [continued]
Warren Buffet: Utility Death Spiral Is Bull S*&^
We’ve covered the “utility death spiral” a lot here on CleanTechnica. Frankly, we haven’t really seen anyone claiming that a utility death spiral from the solar revolution isn’t something to worry about… until now. The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an association of investor-owned utilities, published a report last year that … [continued]
Terrorists Could Put US Out Of Electricity For 1½ Years, Solar Power Could Help Grid…
Risk is about both the probability of something bad happening and how bad that bad thing is. And the decision to take a risk or not involves weighing all of that with the benefits that come from the action you want to take. We’ve built our electric grids in quite … [continued]
