Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:35:50 +0000
Fleets of electric trucks could be deployed in low impact hydropower systems that deploy existing roads instead of new, habitat-destroying infrastructure.
Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:00:29 +0000
On February 3, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest River Forecast Center (NWRFC) released its latest water supply forecast for the 2022 water year, which runs from October 2021 through September 2022. The NWRFC forecasts below-normal water supply in the southern areas of the Columbia River Basin and near-normal water supply in the rest of the […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:57:27 +0000
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a novel approach in determining environmental impacts to aquatic species near hydropower facilities, potentially leading to smarter facility designs that can support electrical grid reliability. By collecting surface water samples, field researchers can analyze tiny pieces of environmental DNA, or eDNA, that fish and other organisms shed […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 12:00:32 +0000
When other types of power plants go dark, hydropower provides a fast, crucial response in seconds. Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. By Kelsey Adkisson, PNNL America’s most critical piece of energy infrastructure — the grid — is more vulnerable than ever before. The reasons are two-fold: a shift in power source mix is affecting grid […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:00:36 +0000
It’s unclear why the EIA 2050 projections are so skewed from observable realities of costs, age of fleets, and global industry transformation. Like most major energy analysis organizations, they are very poor at predicting the rapidly declining costs of wind and solar, very poor at predicting the rapidity of growth of those technologies, and very poor at understanding that the existing technologies are fairly radically outcompeted
Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:51:47 +0000
In the second half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, take’s Zach Shahan’s place as host to talk with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and cofounder of The Solutions Project, about transitioning the world to 100% renewable energy
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:24:22 +0000
Ah, man. It’s annoying as heck to see people who you think are idiots screw up a topic you know well, but it’s an extra special kind of annoying when brilliant people screw up — massively — on that same topic. In this edition of “Smart people who don’t understand the energy industry of 2020,” we’ve got Fareed Zakaria of
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:00:20 +0000
In 1989, pro-nuclear lobbyists claimed that wind power couldn’t even provide 1% of Germany’s electricity. A few years later, pro-nuclear lobbyists ran ads in German newspapers, claiming that renewables wouldn’t be able to meet 4% of German electricity demand
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:38:39 +0000
Costa Rica got more than 99% of its electricity from renewables last year. It wants to do better.
Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:25:47 +0000
When it comes to electric vehicles, Norway is a world leader. Battery electric vehicles sales accounted for 42% of the market there in 2019. The top sellers were the Tesla Model 3, the VW e-Golf, Nissan Leaf, Audi e-tron, and BMW i3. But why is Norway, a small and northern nation with 5.35 million people, also an EV leader