Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:15:57 +0000
What does it look like to enhance electrical grid and community resilience through repurposing decommissioned mines into underground pumped storage facilities?
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:35:24 +0000
Wärtsilä is a 180-year old company that pivoted through technology changes leading to engines for marine power and electricity, and is now a storage leader.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:40:18 +0000
What You Need To Know About This Year’s Annual Technology Baseline, Including Distributed Wind and Pumped Storage Hydropower Supply Curve Data for the First Time The 2022 Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) is now available, including distributed wind and pumped storage hydropower supply curve data for the first time. The ATB integrates current and projected cost and […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:54:15 +0000
Energy Vault’s tech is not a solution, and while it would work at least for a while, it won’t be cheap, it will have lots of failure conditions and it will be high-carbon.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:49:54 +0000
Energy Vault’s solution which ‘fixes’ the problems with its first approach leads to CO2e per kWh numbers worse than natural gas generation, and makes a mockery of its claims of low cost storage.
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:32:56 +0000
India-based renewable energy developer Greenko has signed two deals for its pumped hydropower storage project. According to media reports, one of India’s largest industrial conglomerates, Adani Group, recently signed an agreement with Greenko for using the latter’s pumped hydropower storage capacity. Adani will utilize around 6 gigawatt-hours of storage capacity for its industrial complex. In […]
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: 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: Kyle Field| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:53:19 +0000
This week, Tesla locked in a new patent for a distributed electrical grid management system, with capability to control everything from massive grid-scale energy storage installations down to your washing machine to keep everything humming along nicely