Energy Are Solar+Storage Closing Gas Plants? Is that really what’s most important? 30 Mar 201914 Apr 2019 Over the last year or two, we've heard much about solar + storage - specifically battery storage, replacing [natural] "gas plants" and "peakers" and sometimes infrastructure investments, namely transmission. The…
Energy An Invisible Hand is Not Solving Our Distribution System Problems 20 Mar 201912 Apr 2019 If we are going to try to solve the issues increasingly manifesting themselves at the electric network distribution level, we can't be looking at the Generation and Transmission (G&T) levels…
Big Data… Hard Truths: Past Decade – Eastern US Renewable Energy Efforts Deliver Mediocre Results 14 Dec 201818 Apr 2019 [author's note April 2019 - Although the original intent of this article was to prove whether we could shutter all coal and natural gas steam turbines with existing combined cycle…
Energy Wind Turbines Increase Domestic Energy Resiliency 29 Dec 201615 Apr 2019 Growing up near Lake Ontario in the 1970s, I was fascinated by the C-130s flying overhead regularly. They disappeared over the horizon near where the Somerset power station’s concrete stack first…
Energy… 2015’s $329 Billion Renewable Energy Investment Is A Big Deal – On The Surface 2 Feb 20164 May 2019 Early into 2016 we started to hear about how 2015 was a record breaking year for renewable energy investment. The global markets hit a staggering USD 329 billion according to Bloomberg…
