This post originally appeared on CityMinded.org. With the recent signing of SB 32 by the California Governor Jerry Brown, the State will be maintaining its aggressive emission reduction goals and taking it even further to achieve an additional 40% cut in emissions by 2030. This further strengthened effort to reduce … [continued]
SolarReserve has now proposed a total of six CSP projects near Port Augusta in South Australia that would be clones of its 110 MW Crescent Dunes project in Tonopah, Nevada. SolarReserve’s dispatchable solar can be switched on day or night because it incorporates thermal energy storage. I spoke with SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith, who was … [continued]
A new press release has revealed that an ExxonMobil and Princeton University research partnership has finalized its decisions on the 5 projects that will be receiving funding through the joint initiative. Generally, the winners are focusing on: organic solar photovoltaics; second-life EV batteries; Arctic sea ice modeling; plasma physics; the impact … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. With the first phase deadline set for 2019, Morocco has launched an ambitious “Energy Efficiency in Mosques” program aiming to provide solar power for all the mosques in the kingdom. By switching to energy-saving LED lighting, solar water heating, and rooftop solar PV electricity generation, significant … [continued]
Originally published on The Asia-Pacific Journal. By John A. Mathews China has made strategic choices favouring renewables over fossil fuels that are still not widely understood or appreciated. Hao Tan and I have been making these arguments for several years now, and in particular in our article in Nature in … [continued]
The Chevy Bolt is getting a great deal of attention right now as the company has promised more range than the Tesla Model 3. But it’s from a company which doesn’t have clear plans to deal with three major strategic blockers to large scale electric vehicle sales — dealerships, batteries, … [continued]
New figures have shown that Scotland met its 2014 emissions reduction target, outpacing the United Kingdom as a whole in both 2014 and overall since 1990 — but experts believe there is still a lot of work to be done. According to figures published in a new report this week … [continued]
Economic advancement goes through stages: agriculturally dominated societies to industrially dominated societies to consumer and information worker societies. It’s typically only as the shift to the consumer and information worker societies occurs that significant negative externalities such as climate change and air pollution start to be truly addressed by most … [continued]
Originally published at ilsr.org. Electric cooperatives arose from New Deal legislation that provided government-backed low-interest loans to bring electricity to rural areas that for-profit companies wouldn’t serve in the 1930s. They were engines of the rural economy. But today they face unique challenges, including a disproportionate reliance on coal-fired power, often … [continued]
Grocery stores in Brooklyn and Queens are being recruited for a massive energy storage and load shifting experiment in New York City.
