Another Clean Coal Power Project on the Brink of Failure Kemper County Mississippi is both one of the poorest places in America, and home to one of the most expensive power plants ever built, Mississippi Power’s 582 megawatt clean coal power plant with carbon capture. For Southern Company, owner of Mississippi Power, the federal government … Continue reading Another #Clean_Coal Power Project on the Brink of Failure
Solar ready to thrive without subsidy, says US Energy Secretary The solar industry in the U.S. is primed to grow and survive even without the need for subsidy support, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has said this week. With the price of solar having fallen dramatically over the past few years, Moniz believes that the … Continue reading Solar ready to thrive without subsidy, says US Energy Secretary
Southern Power gains controlling interest in 300MW California plant Energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has acquired a controlling interest in the 300MW Desert Stateline Facility from PV system provider First Solar. The California-based project, which First Solar will hold the remaining interest on, stands as the fourth shared acquisition between both … Continue reading #Southern_Power gains controlling interest in 300MW California plant
Scott Walker’s Record on Wind and Solar Power Leaves Renewables Industry Fuming Five years after he took office, renewable energy in Wisconsin is lagging the boom in the rest of the country and industry blames him for the shortfall. Scott Walker’s up-and-down campaign for the Republican presidential nod has produced at least one constant: As … Continue reading #Scott_Walker ‘s Record on Wind and Solar Power Leaves Renewable s Industry Fuming
This Ohio utility has an innovative plan to save coal power: force customers to buy it A power utility in Ohio is attempting to shaft its own customers in a manner so shameless as to defy description. Yet describe it we must, for it represents everything backwards and perverse in the electricity sector and reveals … Continue reading This #Ohio utility has an innovative plan to save coal power: force customers to buy it #FE
Power Outage Creates Nightmare Commute for LIRR Riders Rail riders lamented another morning of frustrating travel woes Wednesday as a power outage in the East River tunnels forced the Long Island Railroad to suspend service to and from Penn Station for hours, crippling the commute and drawing backlash on social media. Trains began chugging slowly … Continue reading Power Outage Creates Nightmare Commute for #LIRR Riders
What Does The Clean Power Plan Have In Store? Don’t Count Out Electron Laundering ……Before global warming became a concern, the Pacific Northwest and California traded electricity north and south. California needed more power during the summer to run air conditioners. The Northwest’s extensive hydroelectricity system provided that power. In the winter, when river flows … Continue reading What Does The #Clean_Power_Plan Have In Store? Don’t Count Out #Electron_Laundering
Solar cell absorbs high-energy light at 30-fold higher concentration than conventional cells y combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists with Berkeley Lab and the University of Illinois created solar cells that collect blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells, the highest luminescent concentration … Continue reading Solar cell absorbs high-energy light at 30-fold higher concentration than conventional cells
Coal Companies Are Dying While Their Execs Grab More Cash These are dark days for coal. In July, the industry hit a milestone when a major power company announced plans to shutter several coal-fired power plants in Iowa: More than 200 coal plants have been scheduled for closure since 2010, meaning nearly one-fifth of the … Continue reading Coal Companies Are Dying While Their Execs Grab More Cash
Results From the World’s Biggest Transactive Energy Test About two years ago, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project flipped the switch on the country’s biggest test of a technology concept that could transform distributed energy-grid integration: transactive energy. The goal was to show that near-real-time energy and pricing data could provide the right signals … Continue reading Results From the World’s Biggest Transactive Energy Test
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