Climate Crisis
Energy market review of 2023
At the end of each year, I like to look back at the past year and ahead to what the coming 12 months might bring (which I will cover in a separate post tomorrow). In […]
Energy Storage
Bankruptcy
Daily Energy Standup Episode #277 – Energizing 2023: A Year-End Overview of Global Energy Trends, Challenges, and Resilience
The U.S. Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck Plugging Them In. (NYT) February 24, 2023 Mariel Alumit Plans to install 3,000 acres of solar panels in Kentucky and Virginia are delayed for years. […]
Critical Minerals
X-Raying the Reality and Origin of a Hollow Phrase: ‘Energy Transition’
It is often useful to contrast rhetoric with reality. The phrase, an “energy transition,” the goal to replace hydrocarbons, has origins that trace back to a 1977 speech by President Jimmy Carter. It was an “address to […]
ENB Podcast
ENB #146 Renewable Energy can only survive with Sustainable Storage”. How do you define “Sustainable Storage?”
Today I had the opportunity to visit with Tim Kaelin, CEO of Renewable Energy Management about his energy storage company that does not need tax incentives, or subsidies to bring to market. This is a […]
Electrical Generation / Utilities
FERC directs NERC to draft reliability standards for wind, solar and storage
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday directed the North American Electric Reliability Corp. to develop reliability standards for inverter-based resources, or IBRs, such as wind, solar and battery systems. FERC is bolstering standards for IBRs […]
Energy Storage
Energy Department announces $325M for batteries that can store clean electricity longer
The Energy Department has announced a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power. The funds will be distributed among 15 projects in 17 states […]
Energy Storage
Experts warn fires caused by lithium batteries set to rise as use of product increases
Fires caused by lithium batteries are expected to increase over the coming years as use of the highly flammable product continues to rise, an energy storage expert has warned. So far this year, lithium batteries have […]
EIA News
Battery storage seen as ‘backbone’ of reliable electric grid but adoption uneven across US
SEARCY, Ark. — In the decarbonized future envisioned by many states, utilities and the federal government, expect more power plants like Entergy Arkansas’ facility here, where thousands of gleaming panels and banks of batteries spread […]
Big Oil Companies
Daily Energy Standup Episode #216 – Balancing Climate Goals, Renewable Challenges, and Environmental Impact
Daily Standup Top Stories DAVID BLACKMON: Britain’s Prime Minister Places Himself At The Tip Of The Climate Spear September 25, 2023 Mariel Alumit After months of willingly going along with the unrealistic climate change targets set […]
Energy Storage
Westinghouse Long Duration Energy Storage Solution Selected for Department of Energy Program in Alaska
Cranberry Township, PA, Sept. 22, 2023 – Westinghouse Electric Company announced today the Department of Energy has selected its project to deploy a 1.2 GWh utility-scale long-duration energy storage system in Healy, Alaska in support of planned wind […]