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Renewable Friday: Tech News Roundup
When I was writing just Renewable Friday Diaries once a week, I couldn't keep up with the news from PV Magazine and Power and many other sources. Now I can pick out a few choice items from time to...
View ArticleInteresting Rail News from Germany, England, and India. Then There's America...
A 42 MW solar park is being built in eastern Germany to help power rail lines.German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and solar project developer Enerparc have signed a contract for construction of a 42 MW...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Record Solar Growth in US
The good news is 2019 was a remarkable year for solar in the U.S. The bad news is, well, you know what the bad news is.In a word, #covid-45. Although China and Europe messed up pretty thoroughly,...
View ArticleMore public utility solar power at record low cost coming for New Mexico...
Dive Brief:The New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission approved on Wednesday one solar and one solar-plus-storage project to serve El Paso Electric's customers.The projects were proposed to serve...
View ArticleRenewable Saturday: 1 GW of Solar for Myanmar
Myanmar has been a focus for serious Bad News for decades, and is by no means over its legacy of racist oppression. But they are making progress, now that they can. They had one solar installation last...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: 15 GW of Solar for Israel
Mazel tov, Eretz Yisroel! No coal after 2026! Huge amounts of solar! Now, we just have to get a new Israeli government willing to abandon gas. And let the Palestinians join in. And, well, you...
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U.S. Wind & Solar Power Get a Huge Surprise Boost
In an unexpected show of reason and bipartisanship the U.S. congress renewed federal tax credits for investments in wind and solar power for 5 years. The surprise extension will lead the the...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: 1.5 Terawatts of Solar in 2024
Carl Sagan didn't say it, but I will: Terawatts and terawatts and terawatts...When I started this series more than a year ago, we had about a TW of hydro and a TW of wind and solar. This has been a...
View ArticleDid Ya Hear The One About the North Dakota County That "Banned" Solar Power?
Nestled in north central North Dakota, between Bismarck and Minot, McLean County is pretty much in the heart of the state’s “coal country”. As a state, North Dakota has tied its economic fortunes to...
View ArticleMust See TV: Jonathan Scott's Power Trip. Why your utility is killing...
The PBS show Independent Lens featured a documentary by Jonathan Scott. Here’s the blurb:In Jonathan Scott's Power Trip, the HGTV home makeover guru shines a light on the obstacles and opportunities...
View ArticleThe Pine Tree and the Pufferfish: not a fable, but two inspirations for...
You already know that lots of people across the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, so I don’t need to convince you of that. But let me just throw a few quick statistics out:● Globally,...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers look to dodge blackout responsibility with attacks on state...
It's been a month and change since massive Texas blackouts caused by cold weather caused chaos, widespread property damage, and deaths, which has been enough time for Texas Republicans to move on from...
View ArticleIowa: Projecting a 9-fold increase in solar energy capacity this year, DM to...
I wrote a diary earlier this month detailing the fact that Iowa last year had substantially increased it’s wind power generation capacity and had nearly achieved 60% of the energy generated in the...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Offshore wind Part 2, big and small renewable energy...
Finland’s prime minister identifies the future policy challenges ahead, magnified in the US by regional political conflicts. A potential surge in renewable capability can happen in California with...
View ArticleWind, Solar and Battery Storage Potential on Navajo Land
I have been reading about solar and wind electric generation and the problems of getting the power from the places that can generate it to the places that need it. Many of the areas that can generate...
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Building a Renewable Energy Power Grid
Expanding off my recent post, “Wind, Solar and Battery Storage Potential on Navajo Land”, where I reused the high voltage lines associated with 4.65 GW of coal plants that recently closed or are...
View ArticleBuilding a Renewable Energy Power Grid - Part 2 - Land
This is turning into a series of diaries.Original post: Wind, Solar and Battery Storage Potential on Navajo LandPart 1: Building a Renewable Energy Power GridIt started out when I started seeing all...
View ArticleHOAs and Solar Panels
Former neighbors sold their house last year and moved from our HOAless 1950s subdivision to a 2000s subdivision with an HOA built on former farmland on the edge of town (they needed a bigger house).The...
View ArticleBuilding a Renewable Energy Power Grid - Part 3 – Supply and Demand
This is turning into a series of diaries.Original post: Wind, Solar and Battery Storage Potential on Navajo LandPart 1: Building a Renewable Energy Power GridPart 2: Building a Renewable Energy Power...
View ArticleGrid batteries, Elon Musk, and FIRE (yes, right now in Australia)
In order to make better use of green energy (solar, wind, tidal, etc), it helps to be able to store the power when it is generated and use it when you want. Time shifting, as it were.Hydroelectric...
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