Once you synthesize all the elements of the Golden State’s clean energy strategy and extrapolate current trends, it’s easy to see that an impending break with the traditional power generation…
Distributed Energy
Renewable and fossil-fueled distributed generation technologies and policy, small-scale generation, user-generated power, microgrids
Courtesy: Bilfinger Berger Group Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, has long been a niche generation resource in the U.S., largely confined to industries needing a reliable…
The beating our electrical infrastructure endured during Superstorm Sandy was severe. While the centralized power plants in affected regions survived relatively unscathed, the systems that connect to them did not.…
Last month, as Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast and knocked out power for much of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, there were a few islands of relative stability. As New…
Courtesy: Nexterra and UBC/Don Erhardt A sleek, modern building on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, set amongst dense pine forest on neatly landscaped grounds,…
On Monday, as First Wind announced its 69-MW Kawailoa Wind Project had gone into commercial operations on Oahu, other news underscored the difficulty the island state faces in trying to…
Berkeley, Calif., startup LightSail Energy, which aims to produce “the world’s cleanest and most economical energy storage systems,” has secured $37.3 million in a Series D round that included three…
With the downward pressures on natural gas prices around the world, and inflation-adjusted record lows in the U.S., gas is regaining popularity as a fuel source for mobile power generation.…
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week approved a deal involving the state’s major utilities and renewable energy advocates that is aimed at streamlining the process for connecting distributed…
“If you build it, they will come” has proven a risky strategy for some smart grid projects. One of California’s largest investor-owned utilities faced the opposite challenge—customers whose behaviors necessitated…