Former FERC Chief Jon Wellinghoff Speaks Out on Grid Security and Distributed Generation
In a previous article, I had a conversation with former-CIA chief Jim Woolsey to discuss one of America’s greatest national security vulnerabilities, its power grid. The issues that Woolsey has been concerned with for over a decade has been the ease in which a terrorist group or other actor (think North Korea for example) could attack the grid and plunge the country into darkness for months, if not years. And if that seems far-fetched, just recall how a tree limb fell in Ohio in 2003 and blacked out the entire Northeast and part of Canada for several days.
In what stakeholders are calling a “landmark deal,” a portion of the power from the 22-MW First Solar Barilla Solar Project in Pecos County, Texas will be sold to Rice University at a power price comparable to coal or natural gas under a low-risk 2-year contract that was executed by MP2 Energy.
Cleantech investing has taken quite a hit in recent years. Last year, CBS News highlighted the “cleantech crash” on U.S. primetime television, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a Bloomberg-owned energy data firm, has tracked the multi-year decline in cleantech investing. However, there are additional trends that tell another side of the cleantech story and suggest innovation and hope for a low-cost, low-carbon future are far from gone.
India’s SJVN Ltd. will hire a consultant for setting up a 4.2 gigawatt clean energy park in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The title of this post is not a mathematical or even a data formula, so let me define it with a full sentence so that it’s clear: Solar marketing with consistency will bring success over time. Marketing pros will think that what I really mean by “consistency” is “repetition,” and while repeating a message over and over again is certainly a part of
With the rich history of cost overruns in the nuclear industry, Xcel Energy and Minnesota regulators shouldn’t have been surprised when the retrofit cost for the Monticello nuclear power plant ballooned to more than twice the original estimate. Regulators asked tough questions last year about whether the cost overruns were the responsibility of poo
Several enormous renewable energy infrastructure projects — the kind that kick-start revolutions — have been completed over the last few years. They may have their difficulties, and they may not be the perfect model for the future, but at the very least they serve as a reminder that some corners of money, power and influence are fighting the good