«We ran five years of ocean circulation in the model, and we measured the damping of
energy at every grid point to see what the statistics are,» Fox - Kemper said.
Not exact matches
The $ 300 million
grid repair contract PREPA signed with Whitefish
Energy, a tiny company that had only two full - time employees
at the time, is a case in
point.
It looks
at what would happen to the cost of
energy, air quality, and the electrical
grid if Indian
Point was closed.
Joy: But
at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion
point where distributing renewable
energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the
grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.
Solar - to - electric, fed into the
grids, is feasible, and is presenly supplementing fossil fuel generators
at several different locations around the U.S.. This, to my knowledge is usually done
at multiple
point - sources, so the
energy losses and transmission costs are kept to minimal.
The focal
points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable
energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affor
energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the
Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affor
Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed
at making the state's electricity
grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.
We are really approaching the
point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero
energy» in the sense of generating as much or more
energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house
at night and during
grid outages.
The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind
energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from
grid - tied projects, was a key case in
point at the conference.
At Race
Point Light Station they installed off -
grid solar PV, thermal and wind
energy systems and have a great talent for integrating different types of renewable
energy systems.
I have worked with Tom Wineman and Clean
Energy Design for many years now on my own project and several off -
grid systems out
at Race
Point Light Station.
It's not really a secret
at this
point that the easiest way for a natural gas developer to get approval for a gas plant is to cite the need to balance the
grid as more clean
energy projects are built.
With significant strides in renewable site generated
energy already underway,
at what
point does a Passive House envelope become less cost effective than a «Decent House» envelope with site sourced or
grid assist but still site based power generation?
In other words, from the
grid operator's
point of view, solar
energy doesn't look like a power plant
at all (those are controllable, or «dispatchable,» in the jargon), it looks like a reduction in demand.