Weather is big news these days, and winter storms make for great clickbait. (Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a bit culpable here.) The US Eastern seaboard is in the midst of a rolling series of winter storms — wind, ice, sleet, and snow have caused upheavals in communities. Sure, the … [continued]
Four hundred offshore wind turbines survived to resume operations after Typhoon Danas swept through Taiwan on its way to China earlier this week (Taiwan National Meteorological Cenre).
400 offshore wind turbines survived to resume operations after Typhoon Danas swept through Taiwan on its way to China earlier this week.
The sun has yet to set on wind and solar development in Oklahoma, despite looming concerns over a statewide ban. Image courtesy of Leeward Renewable Energy.
The sun has yet to set on wind and solar development in Oklahoma, despite looming concerns over a statewide ban.
The beleaguered Texas power grid could get some much-needed help from the proposed Southern Spirit transmission line, except for a monkey wrench thrown into the works by state legislators in Louisiana. Image courtesy of US DOE.
The beleaguered Texas power grid could get some much-needed help from the proposed Southern Spirit transmission line, except for a monkey wrench thrown into the works by state legislators in Louisiana.
Renewable energy makes strange bedfellows, as illustrated by the hookup between Texas, the proposed new TXSE exchange, and BlackRock. Image courtesy of Pattern Energy.
Renewable energy makes strange bedfellows, as illustrated by the hookup between Texas, the proposed new TXSE exchange, and the ESG-friendly financial powerhouse BlackRock.
In the summer of 2003, a culmination of seemingly small failures by the power grid, its monitoring software, and human operators quickly cascaded into the largest blackout to ever occur in North America. Power outages spread throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, as well as into Ontario, Canada, with … [continued]
BMW is kicking vehicle-to-everything (V2X) into high gear with an assist from the California utility PG&E.
BMW is stepping up from vehicle-to-grid EV charging to kick vehicle-to-everything (V2X) into gear, with an assist from the California utility PG&E
While natural gas plants underperform, wind farms outperform.
Clean energy and demand-side resources have proven track records of both reducing peak demand and keeping the lights on during extreme conditions.
Courtesy of RMI. By Mark Dyson & Becky Xilu Li With extreme cold stretching across half the United States, the past week has seen unprecedented power outages in the central part of the country, and particularly in Texas. Millions of people remain without power as the state’s grid operator, ERCOT, struggles … [continued]
