Susan Kraemer
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All CSP Prices Now 7 Cents Or Under In MENA, Says ACWA Power
In September, ACWA Power contracted with DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) to build the world's largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at 700 MW with 15 hours of storage, at 7.3 cents per kWh, one of a cascading series in 2017 of bombshell record-low CSP prices in 2017. Despite this price record, just months later, CEO Paddy → Read More
Spain’s Government Kneecaps Research at Plataforma Solar de Almería
Claiming budget cuts, Spain's ruling conservative party has once again kneecapped solar, this time, it is advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies research at the world famous solar research lab Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in the Tabernas region of Spain, part of the Center for Energy, Environment and Technological Research (CIEMAT). PSA is not funded by Spain. The → Read More
California Waiver Trumps EPA Dirty Fuel Rule
Image Credit: Rich Lee It's beginning to look like our democracy is actually better defended against strong-man autocracy than I feared. The constitution, the fourth estate, the rule of law, have all taken massive hits, but remain standing, and are even eking out surprising wins after literally → Read More
SolarReserve Bids 24-Hour Solar At 6.3 Cents In Chile
In Chile's last auction for power, SolarReserve bid a world-record-breaking low price at just 6.3 cents per kWh ($63/MWh) for dispatchable 24-hour solar. SolarReserve's CSP technology with integrated thermal storage provides 24-hour solar power, and is ideally suited for Chile's grid with round-the-clock power needs due to its huge mining industry. To bid 24-hour solar at 6.3 cents → Read More
Gutted EPA Mileage Rules Will Please Global Petro-States
Next week the Trump administration will reverse the Obama administration's Final Determination EPA rule requiring 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. → Read More
Will Autocracies Fall As The Oil Age Ends?
In a startling admission of the end of the oil age, the Wall Street Journal headlined recently: → Read More
Estonia To Finance 1,000 Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm At Hiiumaa
Dependence on Russian fossil energy is one weapon Putin has used to subvert democratic rule in neighboring nations. Like most of the world's petro-states, Russia is an autocracy. But one nation having none of that is Estonia. → Read More
NATO Renewable Energy To Penetrate Into Russian Petro-State
Renewable energy companies from three EU member nations — Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands — have just announced they will finance and build a total of 735 megawatts of wind power in Russia, the most dangerous petro-state on NATO's border. Image Credit: Pixabay Finland, which shares a long land border with Russia, has repeatedly been the target of → Read More
Who Benefits If Russian Oil Sanctions End?
The US put sanctions on Russian oil in 2014 to discourage Putin from invading any more of his neighbors after he annexed Crimea. Image Credit: Kremlin.ru These sanctions are focused on Russia's oil sector, because most of Russia's state wealth is actually privately owned by about 30 Russian oligarchs. All of the state-owned petro-state assets were essentially stolen by the → Read More
Russian Military Threat Halts Giant Offshore Wind Project
At a time when Trump attempts to recreate the US as an autocrat-run petro-state like Putin's Russia, renewable developers are beginning to build gigawatt-scale projects globally. One response? Russian military threat. A gigawatt-scale offshore wind project near Russia's border in the Baltic Sea had to be stopped in its tracks in December, because of a stepped-up Russian military threat in the… → Read More
Why Now Is The Time For Nuclear Cargo Shipping
On land, nuclear powered electricity is no longer a competitive US option in a carbon-constrained future when solar is already at 3 cents per kilowatt-hour and wind is even less. Nuclear takes decades to permit, driving up costs, it routinely has cost overruns once it is in construction, and the whole time it faces opposition from residents nearby. These factors → Read More
New Arizona Policy Would Mandate Solar After Dark
A way to incentivize the use of clean energy like solar after dark -- instead of gas peakers -- to cover peak loads has been proposed in a white paper commissioned by Arizona’s Residential Utility Consumer Office, through a revision of state Renewable Energy Standards (RES). Image Credit Pexels Co-author Lon Huber, a Director with Strategen Consulting, was tasked with → Read More
DONG Energy’s 1 Gigawatt Bay State Offshore Wind Farm
Denmark's offshore wind giant DONG Energy brings world leadership to the US with a gigantic 1 GW Bay State offshore wind farm the size of a nuclear plant. → Read More
Why Putin Wants A Trump Kleptocracy
Why Would Putin Want a Corrupt Bully Running the Free World — a Trump Kleptocracy? Friday's bombshell CIA announcement that Russian interference in the US election was specifically designed to elect Trump immediately set the Washington Post's comments section ablaze with the Russian troll army. → Read More
Community Solar Now Available Nationwide From Arcadia Power
For the first time, anyone with an electric bill can subscribe to nationwide community solar and get solar credits deducted from their utility bill. Arcadia Power has rolled out the first nationwide community solar plan, regardless of where your electricity comes from, and which utility provides it. Previously, community solar had to be offered by your → Read More
Trump’s Lies Threaten Wind Techs: Fastest-Growing US Job
The single fastest-growing job in America is wind techs. These are blue collar, red state jobs. → Read More
BLM Saves Desert Solar From Trump
Within days after the catastrophic electoral college win of an autocrat with promised climate ruin, the Obama Administration Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized new competitive auctions for desert solar leases with the same safeguards as those for oil and gas leases. → Read More
Time-Shift Your Excess Solar With Ice Storage
Ice Energy has announced a new model of its thermal energy storage in ice, designed purely with the solar homeowner in mind. The Ice Cub lets a homeowner time-shift their own excess solar generation by storing solar generated at midday for use in their own air conditioning system. In the system, refrigerant used in air conditioning is cooled while running inside → Read More
Everything I Learned About Renewable Energy Contracts By Talking To Developers
Here's how renewable energy contracts work to protect ratepayers, utilities, and renewable energy developers through the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). → Read More
Chinese Turbine Maker Goldwind To Supply Wyoming With 1.9 Gigawatts Of Wind
China's leading wind turbine maker, Goldwind, is to supply 1.87 GW of turbines for the 1,870 MW Master Plan for Carbon County Wyoming, being developed by relative newcomer Viridis Eolia. Wyoming big wind Carbon County Wyoming is also the site of the proposed 3 GW Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind project that Power Company of Wyoming has → Read More