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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Modernizing Electricity System in Minnesota
There’s been strong interest in what’s happening with e21, including people from Australia wanting to find out what’s going on,” said Nordstrom. Because Minnesota has not deregulated its electricity market and its utilities are vertically integrated, its situation is more … Continue reading
Chief Scientist report on energy corrects Madness
…you couldn’t dream up a crazier set of events that have driven fears that South Australia is a sign of the threats to come to power supply reliability and price from lots of renewable energy…The Chief Scientist’s report provides a rational discussion about … Continue reading
US Climate Heroes: Bypass Trump!
To US mayors, governors and CEOs: We call on you to work together to collectively meet US national climate goals regardless of what the Trump administration does. It’s in your power — set ambitious 100% clean energy targets, move towards … Continue reading
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$140k funding Community solar program target met in 2 days
New community investment funding program for rooftop solar has met its $139,600 target in just two days, taking its total fund-raising to nearly $500,000 from four programs…The latest fund-raising program from not-for-profit group Repower Shoalhaven opened on 3pm Monday, but … Continue reading
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Iceland’s volcanoes to power UK
Energy minister, Charles Hendry has already met the head of Iceland’s national grid about the plan. The web of sea-floor cables – called interconnectors – planned for next decade would link the UK to a Europe-wide supergrid, which is backed by the … Continue reading
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$5Tn fossil fuel divestment doubles in 1 year
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon welcomes new total revealing concern over coal, oil and gas investments has entered financial mainstream A demonstration demanding divestment from fossil fuel at the New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street, New York. Photograph: Dorothy Chi … Continue reading
SA failures and big battery proposal
The modelling suggests that “wobbling” output of the gas generators might have been the principal cause of the instability in the grid that led to the separation from Victoria…The ageing, slow reacting gas plants constantly overshot as they struggled to … Continue reading
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SA chaos battery storage v. failed gas and diesel
Battery storage may well have smoothed out those bubbles, according to a report last week from Lloyds Register and RES. Engie’s Mintaro diesel generator’s emergency back-up tripped after just five seconds due to a fault, rendering it useless…Origin Energy’s Quarantine gas-fired power station … Continue reading
Barnaby porkspectives
Joyce attacked the ABC, saying an analysis of the national broadcaster would probably say to close it down. “If I did a cost-benefit analysis on public transport they’d probably say it doesn’t pay for itself,” he said. “It was one … Continue reading
How “Emissions Intensity” works
PHOTO: Carbon tax supporters message on lawns of Parliament House. (AAP: Lukas Coch) “Emissions intensity” with baseline set at 1 tonne of CO₂ for every megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity. A brown coal generator produces electricity at 1.3 tonnes CO₂ per MWh. For every MWh … Continue reading
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