With the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress gave broad powers to the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to...
As long as the penetration of PV on the grid is low, the utility should have no trouble maintaining power quality as the output from...
A state such as New York should be capable of absorbing and benefiting from well over 7 GW of high- value PV without having to...
Toby Couture is one of the pre-eminent experts on cost-effectiveness of renewable energy policies and his comparative analysis of auctions (such as California recently adopted...
A month ago, I compared the fuel cell Bloom Box to distributed solar PV. I’m not linking the posts, because I’ve updated my cost models...
Grid parity is an approaching target for distributed solar power, and can be helped along with smarter electricity pricing policy. Consider a residential solar PV...
The majority of studies indicate that the range of increased operations-period [economic] impact [of community wind] is on the order of 1.5 to 3.4 times…and...
To support its solar PV program, Southern California Edison rolled out a map of its grid system, highlighting (in red) areas that “could potentially minimize...
Twenty MW is also consistent with Commission decisions. We have established certain contract provisions for small sellers because we have found they are unable to...
Have U.S. wind projects hit a size sweet spot? While average project capacity continues to grow, it’s largely because of increasing turbine size rather than...
Last week the Colorado PUC released draft rules for the Community Solar Gardens created under a 2010 state law. We discussed the legislation in detail...
Concentrating solar typically fills people energy nerds with visions of large fields of mirrors focusing sunlight to make heat/steam/electricity, but concentration technology is also available...
Craig Morris has a thorough discussion of why feed-in tariffs (CLEAN Contracts) and other renewable energy policies are still necessary even when renewables get to...
Currently, Minnesota’s public schools spend approximately $84 million per year on electricity costs, money diverted from the classroom. But a bill to make clean, local...
The solution to the variability of solar power is more solar. It’s true that individual solar power plants can experience significant variation in power output,...