In case you missed any of these or just like to see which CleanTechnica stories have been getting the most attention, below are the 30 CleanTechnica stories from the past week that got the most views. After that, you can see my favorites of the week.
At a time when Trump attempts to recreate the US as an autocrat-run petro-state like Putin’s Russia, renewable developers are beginning to build gigawatt scale projects globally. One response? Russian Military threat.
Nearly 10 months ago, Tony Seba, author of the 2014 book Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, posted a video on YouTube, “CleanDisruption.” In both, he projected that a nearly complete disruption of the energy business would begin in 2020 and be well underway by 2022, the year he projects for distributed solar power with battery backup to fall below the cost of transmitting electricity. It is a point at which centralized power plants, if they are to compete with solar-plus-storage, will have to provide power for free. He believes that all centralized electric power producers will be obsolete by 2030, as will conventional cars and utility companies.
A new residential energy storage pilot seeks to better understand how batteries installed in homes can be used at the neighborhood level by grid operators to absorb solar power generation excesses during the day and discharge them when needed later in the day.
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Khalid A. Al-Falih, who is also chairman of Saudi Aramco, the world’s “most valuable” company, was interviewed in Abu Dhabi for Global Action Day last week. I happened to be in attendance and captured Al-Falih making some “interesting” comments.
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the week were…
According to a new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency, renewable energy is gaining ground “according to nearly every measure” and has become the first-choice for “expanding, upgrading, and modernising power systems around the world.”
In a few moments, the 2017 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week will launch. That includes the opening of the 2017 World Future Energy Summit, the 2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize awards ceremony, WISER (Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy), Abu Dhabi Global Action Day, the 2017 International Water Summit, and more. Technically, it also includes the IRENA General Assembly, which I attended on Saturday and where I was inspired to write about the totally insane carbon bubble and tremendous cost-competitive renewable energy potential (790 GW) in South East Europe (more articles to come from the IRENA event).
Energy integration with Canada may become the model for US energy integration with Mexico according to a new report, wall or no wall.
Renewable energy costs have been falling through the floor — they have fallen so fast that even cleantech enthusiasts have been shocked by increasingly low prices several times in the past year alone, and dozens of times in the past 5 years.
