Author: Fereidoon Sioshansi
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Future of energy is electric, and increasingly green
The future will not only be electric, but green electric, and the transition will happen a lot quicker than most people think.
Renewables paired with storage could see gas peakers become a rarity, only selectively and sparingly used in systems with challenging limitations or localised constraints.
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US energy regulator rejects GOP proposal to bail out coal
America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected energy secretary Rick Perry's request for rule change in competitive wholesale markets to favor coal and nuclear plants. Could cooler heads be...
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Welcome to the world of excess solar and “free” electricity
Welcome to the brave new world of plentiful, variable, zero marginal cost renewable energy, By all indications – we ain’t seen nothing yet
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Innovation, disruption and the utility business model
The power sector's rapid transformation has barely started, but implications for incumbents are beginning to be felt and speculated.
New York grid operator says future grid will not only become more decentralized and de-carbonized, but it will increasingly be bi-directional, if not multi-directional.
Once peak oil is finally reached – whenever that is – demand will begin to drop thereafter, perhaps precipitously.
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Saving coal is like saving Titanic, only harder
Coal’s long term prospects do not look good in the US, or for that matter anywhere else
The inevitable has apparently happened; utility-scale solar-generated power appears to be cheaper than wind - and both are cheaper than fossil-fuel generated power.
New ownership models and technological advances will utterly transform the mobility market. And that's bad news for Big Oil.