August 3rd, 2023
Via Canary Media, commentary on why – as Texas endures another bout of extreme heat – more incentives are not offered to recruit residents to help ease demand on the stressed grid: In Texas, record-setting heat is causing record-setting electricity demand, as power-hungry air conditioners become essential to daily life. Though wind and solar power are helping to keep […]
Read more »Tesla Alum Aims To Build The Power Company Of The Future
August 2nd, 2023
Via Canary Media, a report on Equilibrium Energy which is live in Texas with an offering to rent grid batteries and make money with them in the ERCOT markets: It is a truth universally acknowledged that an electrical grid in possession of rapidly growing renewable capacity must be in want of energy storage. Climatetech entrepreneur Ryan Hanley aims to […]
Read more »July 8th, 2023
Via CNBC, a look at how the EV boom could put a major strain on power grids: Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on […]
Read more »The Best Part of an EV Is When You’re Not Driving
July 4th, 2023
Via HeatMap, a look at how the enormous battery in an EV can do a lot more than propel your car down the road: Many new cars and trucks come with modes to optimize driving. Anyone who’s watched an episode of Top Gear has seen the hosts extoll the virtues of sport mode, which makes steering tighter […]
Read more »June 29th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary on the potential for financial incentives to manage power demand: A record-setting heat dome is smothering Texas and neighboring states with no sign of letting up any time soon. Heat like this burns bare feet on sidewalks and pool decks, and sears hands on steering wheels. Trees and […]
Read more »Four Non-Transmission Solutions for Clean Energy
June 29th, 2023
Via Utility Dive, a look at four non-transmission solutions for clean energy with new power lines in the permitting ‘Valley of Death’, specifically smart technologies, storage, overbuilding and distributed resources: Despite White House and other efforts, new transmission projects to deliver the growing amounts of clean energy in the U.S. to where it’s most needed face […]
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