Archive: Commentary

The POWER Podcast

07/18/2019 | POWER

The POWER Podcast Archive: Reversing Climate Change with Nuclear Power Interview with Bret Kugelmass, managing director of the Energy Impact Center. https://www.powermag.com/reversing-climate-change-with-nuclear-power-podcast/ Lithium-Ion Batteries: Costs Down, Benefits Up Interview with Tony Cooper, general manager of Green Cubes Technology’s Motive division. https://www.powermag.com/lithium-ion-batteries-costs-down-benefits-up-podcast/ How to Monitor and Predict Operational Performance with Digital Analytics Interview with Thomas Dhollander, CTO and co-founder […]

The EU’s Power Provisions: Is Texas a Reliable Indicator?

07/01/2019 | Martin Steeger

What does the 21st century power market look like? That is the question the European Union (EU) is attempting to answer with the new electricity regulation and revised electricity directive passed at the end

Energy Infrastructure on Tenuous Winning Streak in the Courts

06/20/2019 | Jeff Wood and Chris Carr

Federal courts have been pretty kind to energy infrastructure in recent weeks, particularly in cases involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). For starters, this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit removed one of the hurdles to construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The court decided that a new presidential permit—issued […]

PG&E Bankruptcy Truly One-of-a-Kind

06/01/2019 | Vidhya Prabhakaran

Numerous articles have boldly declared Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to be the first of many climate change-related bankruptcies to come. The authors wag their fingers in caution at corporations across

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How to Hire the Best Talent

06/01/2019 | Aaron Larson

It’s no secret that the power industry workforce is aging and managers are struggling to find qualified candidates interested in filling open positions. In my April column, I referenced a

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Moonshots and Megaprojects

06/01/2019 | William Riggins

Fifty years ago this July, NASA successfully landed men on the moon and safely returned them to Earth. In this year’s documentary about the mission, Apollo 11 , director Todd Douglas Miller draws on a

The POWER Interview: CleanSpark’s Bryan Huber Talks Microgrids, C&I Installations

05/19/2019 | Darrell Proctor

Commercial and industrial (C&I) sites increasingly are looking for ways to increase the reliability and resiliency of their power supply, along with controlling their energy costs. These C&I projects include distribution centers, data centers, office parks, hospitals, college campuses, and also military bases. CleanSpark, a San Diego, California–based technology company which specializes in the optimized […]

How Qualified Opportunity Zones Can Spark Green Energy

05/01/2019 | Michelle Jewett

While the new Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ) program initially has drawn widespread interest regarding real estate development, it also appears likely to generate promising opportunities for green energy

Energy Resilience Demands Action—Just Not This One

04/01/2019 | Ray Mabus

In an apparent attempt to show supporters he is making good on his pledge to revive the dying coal industry, President Trump has been trying to find a way to funnel tens of billions of dollars to a small