October 13th, 2021
Via the Yale Economic Growth Center, an article looking at the complex economic history of water distribution and law in southern Spain, although – in my view – the piece’s framework should not have been set up as “water markets versus quotas” as the reality is not ‘either/or’ but ‘both/and’: Auction-based water markets, which distribute the greatest amount […]
Read more »Tesla’s Texas Electricity Retail Venture Leans On Battery Storage Experience
August 31st, 2021
Via Energy Storage, a report on Tesla’s planned retail electricity ambitions: Tesla’s planned launch of a retail electricity offering to existing customers within the ERCOT service area in Texas will lean heavily on battery storage as well as solar for its expertise, assets and routes to market. Newly-created subsidiary Tesla Energy Ventures filed an application in mid-August […]
Read more »August 8th, 2021
Via PERC Reports, an interesting article on how water markets help the West cope with supply-side shocks and evolving demands: A drought swept through California in the early 1990s. I remember my second-grade teacher painting a bleak picture to our class about how we could literally run out of water, and that there might not […]
Read more »Creating The Global Energy Internet Via Transcontinental, Submarine Supergrids
June 9th, 2021
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 »June 9th, 2021
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 »Can Millions of New Ford F-150 Trucks Become a Clean-Energy Storage Grid?
June 7th, 2021
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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