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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 There are three important things utilities need to know about wind right now. The first is what the U.S. Energy Information Administration concluded about wind’s role in Clean Power Plan (CPP)-imposed greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. The second is how to compare today’s record low natural gas prices with today’s record low wind prices. And […]
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a system that has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: large colourful noise barriers for highways that also generate solar energy. “They are basically large luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs),” Michael Debije, from the university’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, told CNBC via […]
Global temperatures in July vs. 1951-1980 average. Via NASA. NASA reports this was the hottest July on record. So we are now in “bet the mortgage” territory that 2015 will be the hottest year in NASA’s 125-year temperature record. In fact, 2015 is likely to crush the previous record — 2014 — probably by a wide margin, […]
The cost of solar power is at a record low. A typical solar home can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year on their electricity bill. But, as a volunteer with the Boston-based solar program Solarize Massachusetts and a solar homeowner myself, I’ve always been surprised at how many people I encounter who […]
Source: EIA, based on Electricity Reliability Council of Texas Note: Data for 2015 are preliminary. During the recent heat wave in Texas, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operator of the electric grid covering most of the state, set a new record for electricity use when demand for electricity reached 69.8 gigawatts (GW) between 4:00 p.m. […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. With five turbines totaling […]
An alert calling for electricity conservation was issued Thursday to help protect the stressed Texas electric grid. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is asking electric consumers to limit their electricity usage today during the peak hours of 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The string of 100-degree-plus days led to record-setting power demand on three […]
Is 55 gigawatts of new offshore wind by 2020 possible? Nearly 130 gigawatts of installed wind power accounted for more than 8 percent of Europe’s electricity demand in 2014, according to a new report from the European Commission. That figure might not seem particularly large, especially since renewable energy accounted for 78 percent of Germany’s power consumption one afternoon […]
The Texas electric grid broke the all-time record for hourly demand between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday as temperatures continue to peak above 100 degrees, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. The ERCOT system demand reached 68,459 megawatts within the record 60-minute time frame, which exceeded the previous Aug. 3, 2011 record […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review Note: Data exclude emissions from biomass energy consumption. The electric power sector emitted 128 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMmt CO2) in April 2015, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to the most recent estimates in EIA’s Monthly Energy Review. In any year, April is typically the […]
