Federation of Microgrids: A Moral and Business Necessity
The possibility exists that the U.S. may miss the boat relating to Electricity 2.0 because of the absence of a vision, strategy, and investments in microgrids.
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#GrowingDER — The Transition to a New Energy Infrastructure
The evolution of power grids around the world is being driven by a move away from large centralized generation to the development of small power sources — or distributed energy resources (DERs) — that, when aggregated, can meet local power loads.
Read MoreWind Cheapest Power Source in Argentina Renewable Auction
Wind was the cheapest source of energy in Argentina’s first power auction after the country implemented reforms designed to transform its fossil fuel-dependent grid.
Read MoreWind Cheapest Power Source in Argentina Renewable Auction
Wind was the cheapest source of energy in Argentina’s first power auction after the country implemented reforms designed to transform its fossil fuel-dependent grid.
Read MoreTurnbull Steps Up Attack on Renewables After Australian Blackout
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stepped up his government’s attack on renewable energy by seizing on a storm-driven blackout in the mainland state that’s most reliant on wind and solar generation.
Read MoreGlobal Renewable Energy Investments Edged Up Slightly in 2015
In a new report, the International Energy Agency said that renewable energy occupied a 17 percent share of global energy investments in 2015, up slightly from 16 percent in 2014.
Read MoreWhat Will a Clinton or Trump Presidency Mean for Renewable Energy? Part 2 – Renewable Energy’s Uncertain Future?
The U.S. has 50 unique policy laboratories, many of which have economies larger than many of the countries on earth. They have something to say when it comes to energy policy.
Read MorePart IV: Justice Delayed — Will Politics Trump Justice in the Case of the Clean Power Plan?
By the time this column is published, oral arguments in the legal challenge to the Clean Power Plan will have already been made. The en banc panel of 10 appeals court judges is not likely to render its decision before the New Year. No matter the …
Read MoreWhat Will a Clinton or Trump Presidency Mean for Renewable Energy? Part 1 – The History
Here we are again. Election 2016. Deemed “the most important election of our lifetimes” — the same claim made about the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Presidential elections. As usual, each side is predicting that if their candidate’s opponent wins, we will witness the end of American democracy as we know it.
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