Renewables in the Rockies
The Western Way
Conversation with Utah State Representative Steve Handy and The Western Way’s John Karakoulakis.
Renewables
Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative on Integrating Renewables
EIPC
Conversation with EIPC’s John Buechler, Keith Daniel, Jordan Bakke, and Zach Smith about the white paper “Planning the Grid for a Renewable Future.”
Groundswell for Community Power
Groundswell
“We work with local neighborhoods, community-based organizations, and churches and communities of faith to build solar and other clean energy projects that help reduce energy burdens for people in the neighborhood and help to support local jobs.”
Eversource Exploring Geothermal
Eversource
“We thought about ourselves as a provider of thermal energy. If we thought about the power of geothermal from a utility scale, we could see real potential value.”
Ready to Massively Increase Renewables in Southeast Europe?
How to Get There
We conclude that from a market perspective, the combination of new RES, added gas generation, and carbon prices may cause lignite plants to retire at a faster pace than in the current resource plans.
Reinvigorating Hydropower
Green Energy
Hydropower: a cornerstone of our clean, affordable, reliable electric future.
Does Storage Increase Carbon?
Expect the Unexpected
The energy we use attributable to battery charging is not necessarily renewable energy even if renewable units are running.
The End of Big Iron
Emerging Cost Advantages
How wind and solar became cheaper than hydro, coal, and nuclear.
Deregulation Meets Markets
Econ 101 Shows the Way
We must pass a carbon tax or cap-and-trade legislation to limit carbon dioxide emissions and phase out fossil fuels, including a large portion of our natural gas, to achieve a renewable future.
Does Europe Have a Handle on Its Energy Future?
Leaders or Laggards
We expected to find that Europeans had figured out a pathway to a clean-energy future, but to our surprise, this was not the case. We found Europeans tackling many of the same challenges we face in the United States.