Tag: Renewable energy
What makes natural gas bottlenecks happen during extreme cold snaps
Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University
When temperatures in Minneapolis fell to 27 below zero during the January 2019 polar vortex, the Xcel Energy utility urged...
Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building...
Jeremiah Johnson, North Carolina State University and Joseph F. DeCarolis, North Carolina State University
Due to their decreasing costs, lithium-ion batteries now dominate a range...
What Green New Deal advocates can learn from the 2009 economic...
Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School
Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change...
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
Jonathan Buonocore, Harvard University
New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of...
Why the offshore wind industry is about to take off
Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
There are only five wind turbines operating in U.S. waters today. But...
Are public objections to wind farms overblown?
Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware; Ben Hoen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
While most surveys suggest that the public...
How energy storage is starting to rewire the electricity industry
Eric Hittinger, Rochester Institute of Technology and Eric Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology
The market for energy storage on the power grid is growing at...
Can mirrors boost solar panel output – and help overcome Trump’s...
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Falling costs for solar power have led to an explosive growth in residential, commercial and utility-scale solar use over...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
