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Hans De Keulenaer

Electricity and Power Storage - Ares North America - 3 views

  • Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), is a Santa Barbara, California based company, providing a deployable solution for grid-scale energy storage. ARES mission is to enable the electric grid to integrate unprecedented amounts of clean, environmentally responsible, renewable energy while maintaining the reliable electric service necessary to power growth and prosperity. Since it's founding in February 2010, ARES has developed and filed both domestic and international patents for an advanced method of utility-scale electrical storage. ARES facilities are designed to: provide grid security and reliability; support the increased use of renewable technologies, and to provide an energy storage solution that does not rely on water.
Hans De Keulenaer

DOE Announces US $10 Billion in Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy - 0 views

  • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation for up to $10 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This marks the second round of solicitations for DOE's Loan Guarantee Program, which encourages the commercial use of new or significantly improved energy technologies.
Hans De Keulenaer

US House tries to surpass EU on renewables « 3E Intelligence - 0 views

  • The “25 by 25″ resolution is the result of a big lobbying campaign by a coalition consisting of more than 600 agricultural, energy, and environmental groups, business and labour interests and NGOs.
Hans De Keulenaer

RESNET - RESBlog - Post - 0 views

  • The two reports on the impacts of EE/RE on Texas -- Role of Energy Efficiency and Onsite Renewables in Meeting Energy and Environmental Needs in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston/Galveston Metro Areas and The Economic Benefits of an Energy Efficiency and Onsite Renewable Energy Strategy to Meet Growing Electricity Needs in Texas -- were released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficiency Economy (ACEEE). These studies build upon an ACEEE report released last March that examined the statewide impacts of a suite of EE/RE policies that showed Texas could meet most of its projected needs for electricity while also addressing concerns about peak demand.
Hans De Keulenaer

STUDY: U.S. subsidises fossil fuels 2.5 times more than renewables - Autoblog Green - 1 views

  • According to a new study that reviewed fossil fuel and energy subsidies for Fiscal Years 2002-2008 was just released by the Environmental Law Institute and discovered that the U.S. spends about two-and-a-half times as much on fossil fuels (mostly aiding foreign oil production) than it does on renewable energy.
Gina-Marie Cheeseman

U.S. Government Agencies Divvy Up Offshore Renewable Projects - 0 views

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    On March 17, two U.S. government agencies announced they would work together to help spur the development of offshore energy projects. Under the agreement, the Interior Department has jurisdiction over offshore wind and solar energy projects, and the Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) has jurisdiction over wave and tidal currents projects.
Colin Bennett

Here is the 21st Century Storage and Transmission System for Wind Power - 1 views

  • 1. Transmission Developers would provide electricity transmission in underwater cables (previous story this week), that can be lain in aqueducts, riverbeds and lakes, or down ocean coastlines – clearing the one big hindrance to the development of renewable energy, which is the new transmission needed, and the NIMBYism that succeeds in prevents that from being built, because these would be out of sight. 2. The other,  Riverbank Power – an equally innovative breakthrough, would provide a complete solution to storing wind power (previous story)  effectively making it dispatchable base-load power.
Colin Bennett

Renewable Energy to Grow Rapidly Over the Next 28 Years, Says EIA - 0 views

  • Renewable energy will be the fastest-growing source of energy throughout the world over the next 28 years, helping to meet a projected 49% increase in world energy use, according to DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Hans De Keulenaer

Alternative Energy eMagazine - | AltEnergyMag - 0 views

  • A robust transmission system is the cornerstone for large-scale integration of wind power in the United States. Therefore, perhaps the greatest barrier to achieving this goal is building new transmission to connect the large amounts of location-constrained wind resources to the load centers. Another goal-limiting factor is the lack of appropriate market rules across the various interconnections in the US. Furthermore any reversal of policy decisions made at Federal and State levels (e.g. Renewable Portfolio Standards) in support of renewable energy could send the wrong signal to the industry causing uncertainty in the markets, potentially stalling the investments in new wind plants. The reality is that there are five election cycles between now and 2030 so it is important that wind energy related policies are sustained during this period.   Other potential barriers to achieving this 20-by-2030 goal include: a surge in the global demand for wind energy which could limit the supply of turbines in the US; another financial crisis during the next two decades which affects the credit and investment markets; and lastly the lack of skilled work force to operate power systems with high penetration of variable generation.
Hans De Keulenaer

Ford's EV Charging System Allows Driving Using Only Renewable Energy | CleanTechies Blo... - 0 views

  • Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent charging system that previews how its production vehicles will interact with the grid. The unnamed system enables all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle owners to restrict charging to when electricity prices fall below a certain threshold, or even “when the grid is using only renewable energy such as wind or solar power,” according to Ford.
Energy Net

New analysis: California's grid can accommodate more renewables - 0 views

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    This Wired article summarizes and links to a poster for the American Geophysical Union meetings (pdf) from Elaine Hart, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. Her power flow simulation suggests that the existing transmission network in California can accommodate up to 70% of renewables in the portfolio on a hot summer day. The number of overloaded lines in the simulation rises from 11 to 31, which is not that large an increase given that there are almost 5,000 transmission lines in California. Still, this kind of work can be really useful to help target transmission investment. The Wired article also has some good links for further reading. I look forward to seeing more of this research!
Hans De Keulenaer

The Oil Drum | A North American Energy Plan for 2030: Hydro-electricity the forgotten r... - 0 views

  • Hydro energy’s potential may be overlooked because; it is “old” renewable energy, or because like nuclear energy, some hydro electric schemes have been criticized by environmental groups, but most importantly a perception by many, that most hydro electric potential in North America has already been exploited. Hydro electricity deserves more scrutiny because; 1) North America has significant undeveloped potential, 2) the technology is well understood, although technical improvements continue to be made, especially for low head and small hydro, 3) hydro has a very high energy return on energy investment (ERoEI), 4) additional hydro can enable more wind and solar energy capacity to be absorbed by the grid, 5) hydro potential is more geographically dispersed than wind and solar, and finally, 6) the cost of developing additional hydro capacity is moderately low and has very low technical and financial risk.
Hans De Keulenaer

CBO | Federal Financial Support for the Development and Production of Fuels and Energy ... - 1 views

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    The eternal debate n subsidies. This is a report on subsidies part of the government budget (though there are quite a few off-budget subsidies in energy as well). As usual, the report triggered a good old discussion on subsidizing renewables versus fossil, and on level playing fields.
Hans De Keulenaer

The Military's Green Tech Strategy - Forbes - 0 views

  • Part of what makes the military’s renewable energy projects so attractive to would-be investors is that the service owns so much land that lends itself to such projects.
Hans De Keulenaer

Could the Electric Grid Support Far More Wind and Solar? | Wired Science from Wired.com - 0 views

  • The commonly accepted wisdom in the energy industry is that the grid could only draw something like 20 percent of its power from wind and solar resources before encountering major reliability problems. But the new power flow simulation (.pdf), presented for the first time this week at the American Geophysical Union meeting, shows that, at least in California, the power grid might be able to handle three times that much renewable energy without encountering major trouble pushing electrons around the state.
Hans De Keulenaer

Austinist: Texas: A Leader In Renewable Energy? - 0 views

  • PUC Commissioner Paul Hudson boasted that this new initiative would have Texas—already the leader when it comes to most megawatts produced—generating more than the 14 next-highest states combined.
Hans De Keulenaer

DOE to award $80 billion in efficiency contracts | Energy Efficiency News - 0 views

  • The US government – the country’s largest single user of energy – is to have $80 billion at its disposal for energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation projects at its buildings and facilities.The Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) to 16 contractors including electricity utilities, renewable energy companies and heating and ventilation system manufacturers.Under the terms of the scheme, a contractor designs, constructs and raises the financing for an energy saving project and has to guarantee that the work undertaken will generate energy savings.
Hans De Keulenaer

Illinois: Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Introduced in House of Representatives : Sust... - 0 views

  • The proposed Illinois tariffs are virtually identical to those equivalent to the actual ones in Germany as well as the proposed ones in Michigan. Hydro less than 500 kW……………………………………………………………$0.10/kWh Biogas less than 150 kW…………………………………………………………….$0.145/kWh Geothermal less than 5 MW………………………………………………………$0.19/kWh Wind………………………………………………………………………………………….$0.105/kWh Wind energy from small wind turbines………………………………………$0.25/kWh Rooftop solar less than 30 kW……………………………………………………$0.65/kWh Solar façade cladding less than 30 kW………………………………………..$0.71/kWh
Hans De Keulenaer

Lessons in RE Development From Navarre, Spain - 0 views

  • As a case study of a successful approach, let’s take a look at what Spain has been able to accomplish. Spain has tackled its development of renewable energy sources aggressively. With 11,615 megawatts (MW) of installed wind capacity at the end of last year, Spain is second in the world to Germany in capacity (and about on par with the United States). The 23,372,000 MWh generated in 2006 provided just over 8.5% of Spain’s electricity: only Denmark boasts a higher percentage.
Colin Bennett

Energy regulations in the US - 0 views

  • Major holes found in renewable energy bill
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