How Big Can Offshore Wind Turbines Go? 25 MW And More, That’s How Big
A new wave of supersized, morphing wind turbines will help cut costs for the US offshore wind industry, if it can survive the next four years.
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Behind the Curtain: Power Grid Resilience for Data Centers
By Kyle Julian, Regional Director, Commercial & Industrial Sales, U.S. West Without data centers, life as we know it would collapse. That may sound like hyperbole, but our entire digital economy relies on data centers. But it turns out that data centers use a lot of electricity. In fact, the … [continued]
Renewables Gallop Ahead Down Under — A Queensland Sample
As I sit at my computer tapping out this article, the sun is shining in beautiful Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia. We are moving into summer and the sun is up long before I am. When I awake, the house battery is filling up and charging the car. Soon, the … [continued]
Massive 1-Gigawatt Virtual Power Plant Created From Thin Air
The virtual power plant movement is scaling up, powered by smart thermostats that enable utilities and ratepayers to collaborate on grid resiliency and affordability.
Fossil Gas Shortage Tells Us Alaska Should Turn to Renewable Energy
This is an interesting story, and I have to say I knew nothing about this region’s electricity grid before today. The US Department of Energy has the full, long story, but I’m going to summarize it and cut to the chase in parts. The focus is Alaska’s Railbelt electric grid, … [continued]
Thanks, Biden — For $1 Trillion In Private-Sector Investment In US EV & Tech Economy
I recall when the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed. Immediately, that day, we started getting announcements of EV battery factories and battery-related factories. In coming days, weeks, and months, we also got news of solar panel factories coming to town, battery mineral refineries, and numerous other production facilities. … [continued]
World Moving On Without USA As It Declines
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
Why Clean Technology Will Still Win
As of this writing, things don’t look for the Kamala Harris campaign. The swing states are slowly being called for Trump, and the remaining ones are all leaning his way with high percentages of the vote counted. By the time you read this, it’ll probably be over. Given the pro-fossil … [continued]
What Happens to All of Those “Investing in America” Projects if Trump is Elected?
The 2024 US presidential election race is still too close to call, but it’s not looking great for Kamala Harris and the Democrats. I just wrote about the $988 billion in commitments from private companies that are associated with bills signed into law by Joe Biden — the American Rescue … [continued]
$988 Billion In Private Investments Connected to “Investing in America” Agenda
A reader pointed me to this webpage and the map there showing where manufacturing and infrastructure investments associated with the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are taking place or have been committed. It’s a fascinating map, but the headline number … [continued]
