Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:00:13 +0000
Last spring, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which operates the electricity grid serving 45 million people across the central United States, found out it was at a higher risk of power outages than it believed. The result, as I explain below, was skyrocketing electricity bills for thousands of people. To avoid similar outcomes in […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:50:56 +0000
Low-cost, Earth-abundant raw materials power a new grid energy storage solution
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:05:33 +0000
What can be done to alleviate energy usage during fossil fuel instability and the transition to renewables? Motivating people helps. So does new legislation and applying legal sanctions for non-cooperating countries.
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:10:03 +0000
Inter-regional planning and transmission could help keep the lights on during extreme weather.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:15:46 +0000
California’s grid reliability struggles have intensified in recent years as extreme summer heat strains the system and threatens power outages. The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. With California’s power woes apparent, Western grid regionalization has been raised as a potential […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 02:54:44 +0000
Clean energy and demand-side resources have proven track records of both reducing peak demand and keeping the lights on during extreme conditions.
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:15 +0000
Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck. In today’s dystopian pseudo post-COVID […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:30:40 +0000
Once upon a time, it was a common assumption in the utility industry and among solar skeptics that solar power couldn’t provide more than 5% of grid electricity or the grid would break. And by common, I mean that was the conventional wisdom except among solar loons. How the times have changed! In the latest […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:30:49 +0000
OAKLAND, California — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant, to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. On June 22, Tesla invited approximately 25,000 PG&E customers with Powerwalls to join the VPP and help form the world’s largest […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:35:12 +0000
A new solar-enabled virtual power plant in Richmond, California, will not leave low- and middle-income households out in the cold