Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on efforts to create the global energy internet: Ever since President Xi Jinping pitched the idea of a “global energy internet” to the United Nations six years ago, China’s been trying to persuade the world to build the high voltage highways that would form its backbone. That plan to wrap […]
Read more »Via Clean Energy Finance, an interesting look at one private company’s efforts to build transmission lines: INCUMBENT UTILITIES ARE NOW COMPETING with private developers to build transmission lines. New business models may enable deeper decarbonization. SUNZIA, A PRIVATE TRANSMISSION DEVELOPER, is constructing lines to supply California with evening wind energy to compliment daytime solar production. Its turbulent history […]
Read more »Via Curbed, an interesting look at how mobility, battery storage, and other innovations may impact the grid of the future: Listen, I think you should be able to get rid of your car if you want to. It should be easy to get everywhere you need to go on fast, frequent, fare-free public transit or by using safe, shaded, […]
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