TL;DR: Fossil narratives are collapsing. Economics, physics, and real-world deployment all now point one way: solar + storage. For several decades now, the fossil lobby has followed the renewable sector like a bad debt — constantly painting molehills as mountains, inventing false comparisons, and trying to derail public understanding any … [continued]
The US has an energy storage problem, and it’s a big one: energy storage might not even exist! The Interior Secretary, for example, doubts that it exists. The Energy Secretary has raised similar existential concerns, and the EPA Administrator reminds everyone that even if they do exist, batteries cost money. … [continued]
The fossil fuel industry is in a panic about renewable energy and is resorting to every dirty trick it can find to protect its profits.
Molten salt has long been positioned as the workhorse of high temperature thermal storage. Its story began with research in the 1980s and early deployment in Spanish parabolic trough plants in the 2000s. The technology was appealing on paper. A mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate has a high heat … [continued]
Ivanpah was supposed to be the future. When it opened in the Mojave Desert in 2014, with its three towers glowing like beacons and almost 400 MW of capacity, it was the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. It had the backing of Google, NRG Energy, BrightSource, and … [continued]
Ford, Sunrun and the utility BGE have demonstrated that EV owners can earn incentives by hooking up to a distributed power plant, helping to offset the loss of the $7,500 federal tax credit.
When I began writing about geothermal energy, I did not expect it to turn into a project that would span a dozen in depth articles, weeks of research, lengthy discussions with experts and eventually a full report. The original intent was modest. I wanted to understand where geothermal actually fits … [continued]
At the UN this week, China announced a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of up to 10 percent by 2035. It may double that.
A federal judge has put the Revolution Wind project back on track, paving the way for other US offshore wind projects in the pipeline.
The US geothermal energy startup Zanskar is among the stakeholders aiming to compete against fossil-fueled power plants on cost and construction timeline.
