When you consider the environmental benefits of solar power for providing electricity, it has always seemed unfair that it takes so much bureaucracy to overcome to get it built, even in the nation’s leader, California.
Whereas a natural gas power plant sails through the permitting process with ease, solar can take years and be tripped up by technicalities that don’t slow the permitting of polluting power plants…
Two breakthroughs in renewable energy have been pioneered in combination by John Douglas; an investment banker with many renewable energy start-ups under his belt. Together, the two technologies in combination could provide the wind power deployment equivalent of the invention of the coal-fired steam electric power station, which – in … [continued]
Pumped hydro storage is a simple technology already in wide use. Pump water up a hill when you have available energy, let it fall when you need its power. But Riverbank Power; a new start-up founded by a former wind developer who wants to develop large-scale energy storage, is trying … [continued]
