Texas Shatters Own Solar Power Record, Weird Political Situation Or Not
Texas continues to rack up the renewable energy wins with a record-breaking month for solar power capping a surge past coal.
Texas continues to rack up the renewable energy wins with a record-breaking month for solar power capping a surge past coal.
Someone should look seriously at Red Hill and do more than this napkin math. 140 MWh of high-efficiency storage that reuses existing infrastructure isn’t something that should be dismissed out of hand.
Pumped hydro already accounts for 93% of utility-scale energy storage in the US, and plans are in the works to build up from there.
One of the largest pumped hydro facilities in the world is about to go online in Switzerland near the border with France.
I urge everyone to examine their own biases and blindspots, whether they are in the following short list or not. You’ll help the world more that way.
Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.
To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential … [continued]
A report says the Marinus Link between Tasmania and Australia could become an expensive white elephant.
The opportunity for pumped hydro and other storage in the rapidly expanding African market are high.
The following are the climate change solutions or approaches that I see from my investigations and discussions as gaining consensus and consilience on their viabiilty. It’s not the how, but the what.