This NREL report indicates that “rural utility-scale photovoltaics has more potential than any other renewable energy technology.”
The Grid is critical to the development of more clean energy.
Andy Hoffman. “If business isn’t developing solutions to our sustainability issues, they won’t be developed,” says Andy Hoffman. “If business is not part of the solution, there will be no solution.” Yes and No, Andy. Hoffman is director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. “The reality is that [...]
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“Costs fall off as projects increase in size to a sweet spot of 3-5 MW and then rise again. Divided over the projected output over 25 years, however, these costs are in the hundredths of a cent per kilowatt-hour.”
“Getting to 80 percent renewables efficiently suggests the need for construction of 110-190 million miles of new transmission and 47-80,000 miles of new intertie capacity across the three interconnections. This would cost anywhere from $6.4 to $8.4 billion annually. However, this is in line with recent annual investments of $2 billion to $9 billion annually from 1995-2008. So, the new infrastructure demands are well in line with our national trajectory.”
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Thin solar, which runs on light, is lighter than some other solar panels when you have to haul them.
Green Car Congress is a good source for brief synopses about industry development of traction batteries for electric vehicles.
Stunning changes in the economics of solar PV have made market conditions far different today than in 2007.
The South Korean wind farm project will be built in three phases
Let’s get building those Fibonacci sequence solar PV power plants
