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The Grid is critical to the development of more clean energy.
Relaying a Big Gav post Giles Parkinson at ReNewEconomy has a call to redesign the way energy markets work to handle the shift to renewable energy – It’s time to redesign the world’s energy markets. The path from point A to point B in the de-carbonisation of the world’s electricity markets is looking more problematic [...]
“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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The report defines water stress as when demand for water exceeds a threshold of 40 percent of the available supply provided by local sources (typically surface and groundwater).
Let’s get building those Fibonacci sequence solar PV power plants
Mitigation, Adaption and Suffering, eh?
“Energy Technology Ventures—a joint venture among GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips—is making its first non-US and first water-related investment by providing capital to Emefcy Ltd.”
Changing rainfall patterns and unusual temperature swings, sometimes causing power plants to shut down their steam turbines and wait for wetter and/or cooler days.
