Can Onsite Generation With Microgrids Help Zap Widespread Blackouts?
Is it more efficient for electricity to be centrally generated before sending it over high-powered transmission lines or is it better for the power to be produced onsite and then delivered by localized microgrids?
Home Energy Management Advances Open Electricity Ratemaking Opportunities
Utilities have long sought subscription rates for electricity as revenue stabilizers; however, they have faced implementation challenges in the area of generating cost and energy savings. Home energy management (HEM) technologies are greatly improving the capabilities of residential demand response (DR) and energy efficiency programs utilities would use to generate these savings.
Rolling Back Obama’s Methane Rules May Give Trump A Bump But It Could Burn Natural Gas
The Trump administration has, ironically, just bucked the wishes of Big Oil by acting today to roll back regulations on methane emissions — the most potent greenhouse gas of them all.
Cloud Computing Needs A Garbage Collection Service
In environmental terms, disposable products are not good. In the age of climate change enlightenment, inconvenient truths and Greta Thunberg, disposable products are generally regarded as wasteful and bad news for polar bears (and everyone else for that matter).
Future energy systems need to be climate proof
Climate policy for future energy systems typically focus on the challenge to make them carbon neutral to avoid climate change. However, it will also be critically important to make them climate proof to ensure that they are resilient to future climate change.
Incorporating solar harvesting into the side of buildings could enhance energy sustainability
If builders could incorporate solar harvesting into the siding of a building, the amount of energy from the grid that a structure would need may significantly decrease.
Flexible management of hydropower plants would contribute to a secure electricity supply
Researchers from the UPV/EHU’s Institute of Public Economics and BC3, the Basque Centre for Climate Change, have been cooperating for several years on the study and projection of so-called security of electricity supply in Spain. The country is regarded as an ‘electricity island’ owing to its scant interconnection with neighboring countries.
Analysis of renewable energy points toward more affordable carbon-free electricity
As more states in the U.S. push for increased reliance on variable renewable energy in the form of wind or solar power, long-term energy storage may play an important role in assuring reliability and reducing electricity costs, according to a new paper published by Caltech researchers.
Scientists Dissect The Tactics Of Climate Delayers
With climate change increasingly difficult to deny, those who would do nothing about it have turned to delay. European scientists last month catalogued what they call the “Four Discourses of Climate Delay”—arguments that facilitate continued inaction.
Why Slower Commutes Can Be A Good Thing
As the economy slowly reopens, our streets are giving way to returning traffic and increased emissions. With the rise in car sales (especially larger vehicles like pick-ups and SUVs), and pedestrians twice as likely to die when struck by a large vehicle — it’s time to rethink the way we approach safety on our streets.
Battery Swapping Is Playing An Important Role In Micromobility
A wide variety of micromobility vendors—such as Raido, Bolt Mobility, TIER Mobility GmbH, Dott, Neuron, JUMP, Revel, and Gogoro—are developing and using battery swapping technology to make their products more convenient and their businesses more profitable.
Humans May Not Adapt Well To Climate Change, But Ragweed Sure Does
Common ragweed, that pestilent inflamer of sinuses everywhere, shows a remarkable ability to rapidly evolve under climate change, according to a new study. Scientists expect the invasive plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, to spread across Europe and North America as the climate warms, vastly increasing the range of its irritating pollen.
Battery Storage Is Delivering Value For Solar Developers And Energy Consumers. But What About Cost?
COVID-19 has led to lock-downs. That, in turn, has led to less energy use, creating an opportunity for renewables to shine. They are becoming the lowest-cost energy source on sunny days, although during the evening when electricity demand is high, power prices are spiking.
Using Big Data And The Power Of Markets To Solve Climate Change
An academic paper published last month by Australian climate scientist, Steven Sherwood and a team of global colleagues, made for sobering reading. The paper showed that a doubling of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations – which at our present do-nothing pace, we’ll hit sometime in the next two generations – would most likely push global average temperatures to a range of between about 2.5 degrees and 4.0 degrees Celsius.
The Coronavirus Lockdown Revealed The Magnitude Of Air Pollution From Agriculture
Satellite images showed noxious pollution vanishing over China and Europe when the world shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But on the ground in Milan, environmental economist Valentina Bossetti was puzzled the air wasn’t cleaner.