Enlarge / Batteries roll through an automated assembly line. (credit: xPACIFICA/Getty Images) On Monday, the US Department of Energy announced that it was releasing over $3 billion in funds to stimulate the production of batteries within the country. The funding is divided into two chunks, one intended to spur the processing of battery materials and manufacturing […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) There’s a disconnect between when people want to use electricity and when solar tends to produce it. Most often, people use power during the evening or the early morning, when the Sun isn’t yet up. “There is a mismatch between solar irradiation arriving on Earth and the time […]
Enlarge / Solar power and habitat preservation are likely to conflict, but only in some areas. (credit: Zhi Hao ) Compared to fossil fuel plants, renewable energy facilities cover a lot of ground. That ground can be put to additional uses; many wind farms are also farms, and even solar plants can work well with […]
Enlarge / An offshore wind farm under construction. (credit: Charlie Chesvick/Getty Images ) Shortly after taking office, President Joe Joe biden announced a major effort to jump-start the offshore wind industry in the US, with the stated goal of going from roughly zero to 30 GW of capacity before the decade is over. To that […]
Enlarge (credit: Picture Alliance / Getty Images ) The world seems to be simultaneously on fire and flooding, and the latest expert report indicates that we’ve just about run out of time to avoid even more severe climate change. All of that should leave us in a place where we are looking for ways to […]
Enlarge (credit: US DOE) More details have emerged about the climate and energy priorities of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, and they include support for nuclear power and carbon capture with sequestration (CCS). In a press conference yesterday with reporters, White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said the administration would seek to implement a clean […]
Enlarge / Sights like these may be more common in the US before long. (credit: Nathan Stirk / Getty Images) On Monday, the Biden administration announced a major effort to kickstart the offshore wind industry in the US. While offshore installations have been booming in Europe, the US is still limited to a single, small […]
The dilemma of climate change introduces one of the toughest decision-making challenges that a CEO may confront –a case study in balancing doubt with prices to bring about modifications which will require substantial lead times. Firms like ours which take climate change seriously are investing now because we are considering tomorrow. This is the way […]
Facebook is among those world’s biggest corporate buyers of renewable energy, using signed prices for at least 5 gigawatts of all “fresh ” electricity –3.5 gigawatts of that is anticipated to be on line by the end of the year. (One gigawatt is enough to electricity 700,000 houses for per lifetime, according to some estimates) […]
Expand / Former Energy Secretary Ernst Moniz discusses in an ARPA-E occasion in 2016. (charge: DOE / / Flickr) In 2009the US Department of Energy began financing energy research via the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (or even ARPA-E) program. The goal was to take more risks than conventional national efforts and assist innovative renewable energy […]