Showing posts with label energy storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy storage. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Energy Storage and the Cost of Going Off-Grid

›
New energy storage offerings from Tesla and other manufacturers are widely expected to enhance the attractiveness of rooftop solar power an...
2 comments:
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Calibrating Solar's Growth Potential

›
A new report from the International Energy Agency suggests the possibility of solar power becoming the world's largest electricity sour...
21 comments:
Monday, January 06, 2014

Energy 2013: More Shifts Ahead?

›
2013 was an eventful year for energy, though perhaps with fewer earth-shaking implications for the future than in other recent years. Seve...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Can Energy Storage Make Wind and Solar Power As Reliable As Coal?

›
Wind and solar power  generated 3.5% and about 0.1% , respectively, of US electricity last year.  These figures represent large increases ...
2 comments:
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

How Many More Solyndras?

›
Another firm that received a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy has just filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power had drawn down $39.1 m...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Storing Wind Power in Gasoline

›
I just read an intriguing article by the inventor of a scheme for using the energy in off-peak wind power to recycle waste CO2 into hydrocar...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Storing Sunlight

›
An article in MIT's Technology Review on a new liquid battery technology got me rethinking an assumption I've been making for some t...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

An Old Idea Made New

›
A friend sent me a link to a story about some companies using a twist on a very old technology to reduce their office air conditioning bills...