Via Matt Mandel, commentary on the potential to make energy programmable: We’ve previously written about the storage gap. The proliferation of solar has led to an abundance of energy when the sun is out and a dearth when it’s not. Batteries help address this gap by storing excess energy in times of plenty and discharging stored […]
Read more »Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how – by orchestrating EVs, batteries, and smart home devices – virtual power plants can help make the grid cleaner and more efficient: For more than a century, the prevalent image of power plants has been characterized by towering smokestacks, endless coal trains, and loud spinning turbines. But the […]
Read more »Via Volts, a very informative podcast featuring a conversation with Jason Huang of TS Conductor and Emilia Chojkiewicz of UC Berkeley around the potential of upgrading the power lines: Upgrading power lines — “reconductoring,” in the biz — is a straightforward way to boost the capacity of the electrical grid by enabling it to transmit more […]
Read more »Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how – from predicting EV charge times to pinpointing areas of high wildfire risk – AI is transforming our energy network: The power grid is growing increasingly complex as more renewable energy sources come online. Where once a small number of large power plants supplied most homes at […]
Read more »Via Cipher, commentary on the importance of unlocking the grid in order to allow renewable energy’s full potential: Tripling global renewable energy capacity by decade’s end is possible if all the wind and solar capacity currently languishing in regulatory limbo is hooked up to the power grid, a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report shows. The […]
Read more »Via Anthropocene, a look at how renewable energy can be 100% reliable and economically feasible through transcontinental power pools—no long-term storage required: Sources of renewable energy such as solar and wind power are highly variable, not only over time (the sun doesn’t shine at night) but also in space (some places are just windier than others). […]
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