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 / Sheep may safely graze. (credit: Karl-Friedrich Hohl / Getty Images ) What makes a good spot for livestock and a good spot for solar farms often overlaps. They’re both large, quite flat, and get a good amount of sun, being free from tall vegetation. As such, solar producers are increasingly leasing farm land […]
Enlarge Past projections of energy costs have consistently underestimated just how cheap renewable energy would be in the future, as well as the benefits of rolling them out quickly, according to a new report out of the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford. The report makes predictions about more than 50 […]
Enlarge / A hailstorm at a location like this could be really problematic. (credit: Barcroft Media / Contributor) Solar panels have a love-hate relationship with nature.They need to be placed in exposed locations that get a lot of sunlight, but cloudy weather obviously reduces their production. Less obviously, more extreme weather—from snowstorms to hurricanes—can damage […]
Enlarge (credit: US EIA) Earlier this week, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) released figures on the new generating capacity that’s expected to start operating over the course of 2021. While plans can obviously change, the hope is that, with its new additions, the grid will look radically different than it did just five years […]
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Expand (charge: TLPOSCHARSKY / / Flickr) Renewable energy costs have dropped to the stage at which, for a lot of Earth, solar and wind energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel-generated power. However, the variability of the power sources might make handling them in an electrical grid hard –an obstacle which can precise prices […]
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The potential for electricity production is not solar powered. That is the Perspective of the International Energy Agency at its own fresh World Energy Outlook report, also published in October. The largest reason: Solar is currently less expensive than gas or coal in a lot of the planet. “I visit solar getting the king of […]