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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: June 17, 2015, 9:56 pm
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California Sets Record; Surpasses UK, France, Spain in Installed
Solar Capacity
Rhone Resch
Think about this for a second: If California was a nation, it
would rank 6th in the world in installed solar capacity. Wow.
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: June 18, 2015, 6:45 pm
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[move][i]More Truth in this comment than in the article it
references. [/i][/move]
June 17, 2015
Bruce McFarling says:
The thesis that a carbon price is unwinnable seems to be based
on a premise that winnable fights have to be on grounds that can
be "bipartisan" ... and that is the premise that resulted in the
politicizing of science and renewable energy policy, since you
only have to turn it into a partisan issue to close the door on
that bipartisan approach.
[quote] "At the national level, the effort by the extreme right
to politicize science funding is a deep threat to progress in
developing renewable energy technology. I think de-politicizing
and increasing basic science funding and funding renewable
energy research and development are winnable battles at the
federal level." [/quote]
The threat to progress in developing renewable energy technology
is a large point of the point of politicizing science funding.
[size=12pt]If people reacting to reality gives an answer that
threaten the wealth of large, established and (by definition)
wealthy interests, then the immediate pursuit of narrow and
short term self interest calls for obscuring reality.
De-politicizing basic science funding and funding renewable
energy research and development are winnable battles, but its
not likely that they will be won on a "bipartisan" model. There
seems to be enough wealth at stake to guarantee dominance of at
least one mainstream political party.
So they will most likely have to be won the old fashioned way,
of entrenching them in the platform of one mainstream political
party, whether by gaining adherence from one or from shattering
the current political alignment and rebuilding it anew (as in
the 1850's in the US with the collapse of the Whigs over the
slavery issue), and then winning that political fight..[/size]
How the Transition to Renewable Energy Could Come
by Steven Cohen, Executive Director of Columbia University’s
Earth Institute and a Professor in the Practice of Public
Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and
Public Affairs.
Posted June 16, 2015
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: June 18, 2015, 7:56 pm
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Not Your Grandparent's Grid: 6 Reasons Why Penetrations of
Renewable Resources are Becoming Attainable
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Posted June 17, 2015
SNIPPET:
[quote]There are key differences between yesterday’s grid and
tomorrow’s grid that should be forefront as we consider the
ability of the system to integrate high levels of renewables.
•Advanced communication and IT resources are being deployed to
provide grid operators with the information and tools necessary
to optimize system operations, markets, and planning.
•The benefits of geographically broad and co-optimized operating
and market footprints are becoming increasingly apparent and
there are significant initiatives underway globally to leverage
the benefits of regional collaboration to support the
reliability and economic performance of the grid while also
enabling the integration of clean energy resources.
•Commercially available technologies including active power
controls on wind turbines and advanced solar inverters are
capable of supporting grid operations and reliability, and in
some cases they are better equipped to do so than older or
inflexible thermal generating units that do not respond well to
automated signals.
•Electricity markets have the potential to provide investors and
developers with appropriate economic signals to deploy advanced
technologies that provide varying combinations of energy,
capacity, and ancillary services. The development of market
products beyond energy and capacity will increase the value
propositions for renewable resources and there are an
encouraging number of initiatives underway to augment existing
markets and start new markets.
•Increasingly sophisticated distributed resources, demand
response, and storage technologies are in the queue to become
essential components in a system that leverages the broad
capabilities of a diverse set of resources.
•The ongoing retirement of large coal generating units and the
decentralization of generation assets are creating a grid that
is more flexible, resilient, and better equipped to integrate
renewables. [/quote]
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: June 22, 2015, 6:48 pm
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[quote]Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru warned
that Francis “will have many critics, because they want to
continue setting rules of the game in which money takes first
place. We have to be prepared for those kinds of attacks.”
The Pope took his critics into account—making it clear within
the text of Laudato Si that his approach to the environment is
firmly rooted in traditional Catholic views of the uniqueness of
human life and the need for a non-market based common
good—drawing a line clarifying that he is not preaching a “new
age” form of Catholicism.[/quote]
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How Pope Francis’s Climate Encyclical Is Disrupting American
Politics
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: June 29, 2015, 4:49 pm
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06/29/2015 12:55 PM
New York Releases Plan For Visionary Energy Policy
SustainableBusiness.com News
Last year, NY Governor Cuomo announced the state's visionary and
groundbreaking plan to transition to distributed, renewable
energy, "Reforming the Energy Vision," hailed as the most
aggressive in the country.
Now there's a path to make it reality.
Under the NY State Energy Plan, by 2030:
•cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% from 1990 levels by 2030, and
80% by 2050 - from electricity, heating, industry, buildings and
transportation
•renewable energy supplies 50% of energy (up from 25% now,
including hydro) from solar, onshore and offshore wind, biomass
and hydro
•energy efficiency in buildings 23% below 2012 levels
Plan Components
[quote]1. Transform utilities to market-based role: Rather than
selling energy that's under centralized control, utilities will
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money by linking them together and integrating the energy into
the grid.
Utilities must submit their plans to meet these goals by the end
of this year.
2. Clean Energy Fund: $5 billion over 10 years to support NY-Sun
and K-Solar, NY Green Bank , plus $1.5 billion for large scale
solar and wind projects.
3. Building Efficiency: implement advanced building codes,
raise efficiency in affordable housing, move to combined heat
and power, and BuildSmart NY program.
4. Minimize methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure
5. Research, development and commercialization of energy storage
technologies through NY-BEST and Brookhaven National Lab.
6. Investments in electric vehicles and infrastructure - 3000
charging stations across the state over the next five years.
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Read our article, New York Sets California-Like Path for Solar
Energy.
Website:
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: July 7, 2015, 10:34 pm
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Renewables = 17% of US Electricity Production In April
(Exclusive)
Published on July 7th, 2015 | by Zachary Shahan
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Following my latest US electricity capacity report, let’s look
at actual electricity generation. As the headline indicates,
renewables accounted for 17% (or 17.1% if you want to be
slightly more precise) of US electricity production in ... Read
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: July 13, 2015, 4:57 pm
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07/09/2015 03:44 PM
[b]Energy Efficiency Has Penetrated Business Psyche[/b]
SustainableBusiness.com News
Energy Efficiency is fast becoming part of the "business psyche"
and energy management is considered an essential business
strategy, according to a Deloitte survey.
Industries leading the way are technology, media,
telecommunications and healthcare.
79% of businesses with more than 250 employees view reducing
electricity costs as key to competitive advantage and 57% have
formal energy reduction goals, up from 46% just last year.
Almost all - 93% - invested in energy management during the past
three years - 17% of capital budgets this year.
They are moving toward energy independence, with 55% saying they
generate some electricity on-site, [I]up from 44% last year.
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13% of the energy generated on-site comes from solar or wind, 9%
from fuel cells, and 9% from combined heat and power.
"Based on the results of the 2014 study, we found that energy
was becoming a core business competency. The findings of the
2015 study not only corroborate that result but further suggest
a tipping point has been passed: thoughtful, deliberate energy
consumption has permeated the business psyche, and companies, by
and large, now consider energy management to be an essential
aspect of corporate strategy."
Read our article, World Is Moving to Distributed Energy: 165 GW
by 2023.
Manufacturers Can Do Much More
Although manufacturers are much more efficient - they use 17%
less energy than in 2001, they still consume 24% of US energy,
according to "Barriers to Industrial Energy Efficiency," by the
Department of Energy.
The sector can cut energy use another 15-32% over the next 10
years through demand response and by incorporating efficient
equipment such as advanced electric motors, lighting, sensors,
controls, and combined heat and power.
In other words, most companies are still scratching the surface
on efficiency.
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Why? Not surprisingly, economic constraints are cited as the
main reason, but they also don't make it up on the priority
list. Other reasons are perceived lack of returns and too much
of a focus on short-term results.
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Efficiency has yet to become ingrained in corporate strategy for
industrial manufacturing. :(
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: July 14, 2015, 6:54 pm
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[quote] He believes that in less than 10 years nearly all cars
will be electric. ;D Also he said bulk storage with batteries
will grow faster than predicted. “Our view is that batteries are
really going to win” over other energy storage technologies like
pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage, even flow
batteries, he said. “We are seeing price declines that make a
lot of those technologies somewhat stranded,” he added.
“So if we can have solar generation at $0.02-0.03 per kWh and if
you can have a levelized cost of a battery that may fall below
$0.10 per kWh you suddenly get to have energy that is 100
percent firm and buffered from photovoltaics that is cheaper
than fossil energy,” he said. That goal is in “grasping
distance” according to Straubel.
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Tesla CTO: Bulk Energy Storage Will Grow Much Faster Than People
Expect :o
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Much ado about energy storage at the Intersolar 2015 opening
keynote.
July 14, 2015
By Jennifer Runyon, Chief Editor
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: July 17, 2015, 12:53 pm
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07/16/2015 01:26 PM
Five Seismic Shifts In Energy On the Way
SustainableBusiness.com News
Calling it "5 Seismic Shifts" in global power generation,
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) outlines the dominant trends
we'll see over the next 25 years.
The big news is the scale of renewable energy investment we are
about to see, especially in distributed solar energy. The bad
news is that without more radical policies, continued fossil
fuel emissions will prevent the world from reaching climate
goals.
Solar, Solar Everywhere! Costs keep coming down in solar PV,
driving a $3.7 trillion surge in solar investment, both
large-scale and small-scale.
Power to the People: $2.2 trillion of that will go to rooftop
and community-based solar systems, giving individuals and
businesses electricity independence by storing it in batteries
and giving billions in the developing world access to power for
the first time.
Small solar and building-integrated solar will soar from 104
gigawatts in 2014 to nearly 1.8 terawatts in 2040, a 17-fold
increase. Prices will drop another 47% per megawatt, conversion
efficiencies will improve and the industry will move to new
materials and more streamlined production methods.
Solar on House
"Up to now, small-scale solar investment has been dominated by
wealthy countries such as Germany, the US and Japan. By 2040,
developing economies will have spent $1 trillion on small PV
systems, in many cases bringing electricity for the first time
to remote villages," says Jenny Chase, chief solar analyst at
BNEF.
Utility-scale solar PV will grow 24-fold to 1.9 terawatts,
onshore wind will reach 1.8 terawatts (up five-fold) and
offshore wind will grow 25 times to 198 gigawatts. Smart grid
capacity will grow 17-fold to 858 GW.
By 2030, solar will be the cheapest energy resource and by 2040,
the cost of wind projects will have dropped another 32%.
In fact, 78% of the $12.2 trillion invested in power generation
will be in emerging markets. Renewables will account for two
thirds of that, with $1.6 trillion still in coal, $1.2 trillion
in gas and $1.3 trillion in nuclear.
For every 1 GW of new build in the Americas, 3.4 GW will be
installed in Asia Pacific nations. China alone will attract $3.3
trillion, nearly double that for the Americas, BNEF says.
[b]
Solar Becomes Top Energy Source in 2018[/b]
Looking at the shorter term, GTM Research finds 2018 will be
the tipping point for solar, when it achieves grid parity
worldwide and becomes the energy of choice. By 2020, the world
will be installing 135 gigawatts a year, triple the current
pace.
The top countries will be China, US and Japan, and Africa, Latin
America and the Mid-East will jump from 1% solar today to 17%.
Demand Undershoots: at the same time, ever-increasing energy
efficient technologies of all kinds will limit energy demand
growth to 1.8% a year, down from 3% a year from 1990-2012. In
OECD countries, electricity demand will be lower in 2040 than in
2014.
Gas Flares Briefly: Natural gas will not be the world's
"transition fuel" away from coal, except in the US. Many
developing nations will opt for a twin-track of coal and
renewables.
Climate Peril: Despite $8 trillion in renewable energy
investments, there will still be enough fossil-fuel plants to
keep world carbon emissions rising until 2029, and in 2040,
emissions will still be 13% above 2014 levels. Fossil fuels will
still be used for 44% of electricity production, down from 67%
in 2014).
Even with much slower energy demand growth, the world will use
56% more electricity - too much of it from coal - as population
and economies expand in developing countries.
"The CO2 content of the atmosphere is on course to exceed 450
parts per million by 2035 even if emissions stay constant, so
the trend we show of rising emissions to 2029 makes it very
unlikely that the world will be able to limit temperature
increases to less than 2 degrees Centigrade," says Seb Henbest,
head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BNEF.
"The message for international negotiators preparing for the
Paris climate change conference in December is that current
policy settings - even combined with the vast strides renewables
are making on competitiveness - will not be enough. Further
policy action on emissions will be needed," he adds.
The analysis, however, leaves out key policies that have yet to
be put in place, such as EPA's Clean Power Plan in the US or
China's cap-and-trade systems, which starts official operations
next year. In proceeding years, a worldwide cap-and-trade system
will likely coalesce.
Read our articles, World Emissions Can - and Must - Peak By 2020
and Stabilizing Our Atmosphere Costs $44 trillion through 2050.
Read BNEF's report, New Energy Outlook 2015:
Website: www.bloomberg.com/company/new-energy-outlook/
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: July 22, 2015, 4:59 pm
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Milestone Passed: World Adds Over 100 GW of Renewables in 2014
;D
SustainableBusiness.com News
2014 was another big year for renewable energy worldwide - for
the first time, over 100 gigawatts (GW) were installed in one
year.
The 103 GW added - mostly solar and wind - equals the output
of all US nuclear plants combined, and is a significant increase
from previous years - 86 GW in 2013, 89 GW in 2012 and 81 GW in
2011.
Renewables are edging toward supplying 10% of the world's power.
They contributed 9.1% of all electricity in 2014, up from 8.5%
the previous year, and that doesn't include big hydro.
The industry grew 17% with $270 billion invested, according to
the 9th Annual Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment
2015, by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and
Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Even sharply lower oil prices didn't stop the growth, thanks to
major expansions of solar in China and Japan and record
investments in offshore wind.
"Once again in 2014, renewables made up nearly half of the net
power capacity added worldwide" says Achim Steiner, UN
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP.
[quote]
"There is now nobody who thinks the energy system of the future
will look like the energy system of the past," says Michael
Liebreich, advisory board chair for Bloomberg New Energy
Finance. [/quote]
Solar and wind continue to dominate with 92% of all
investments. Solar jumped 25% to $150 billion - its second
highest figure ever - and wind rose 11% to a record $99.5
billion. 49 GW of wind and 46 GW of solar PV were added, both
records.
Seven $1 billion-plus offshore wind projects were approved in
Europe, including the biggest one ever - the $3.8 billion 600
megawatt Gemini project in the Netherlands. Geothermal grew 23%
to $2.7 billion invested, but biofuels, biomass and small hydro
declined.
Renewable Energy Growth Worldwide 2014 (graphic at link below)
China saw record investments of $83.3 billion (up 39% from 2013)
and the US came in second at $38.3 billion, up 7% on the year.
Japan is third at $35.7 billion, a 10% increase and its biggest
year yet.
Read our articles, World Wind Industry Grows 44% in 2014 and
Solar Set To Soar Worldwide This Year, 36% Growth!
Read UNEP's report:
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