In most cases, the utility signs a PPA for the electricity produced by the solar array. This trend is taking place not just in Texas. The aforementioned rise in national transmission and other non-energy costs have driven other utilities to pursue these deals. As a result, NRECA reports ...
As his state was racked by an electricity crisis that left millions of people without heat in frigid temperatures, the governor of Texas took to television to start placing blame. His main target was renewable energy, suggesting that the systemwide collapse was caused by the failure of wind and...
To reveal the disparate impact of managed power outages on vulnerable subpopulations in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses the city of Houston, we collected and analyzed community-scale big data using statistical and trend classification analyses. The results highlight the spatial and temporal ...
In my neck of the woods, where we have to pay for electricity generated by ancient, oil fired steam plants as well as huge non technical losses (A 2012 document speaks to reducing losses due to theft from 13% to 6% by 2016), solar PV is looking very good for those who don’t have...
The Chart above shows the average of the “Break Dec15” and “BreakApr15” estimates from Dean’s recent analysis (previous chart) from Feb 2015 to Feb 2016 with exponential trend lines fit to different periods. The decline rate from the peak is 4.7%/year, for the whole range shown (...
Summary: Most of the nation needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar, they need continuous and uninterruptible electricity from natural gas, nuclear, and coal to support the health and economy in their state to survive extreme weather conditions year-round. California, with its ...
I did a post a few topics ago where I did a back of the envelope calculation that showed that by investing in PV we could produce enough electricity to power enough EVs that we could truly be energy independent. There was enough solar input throughout the USA in January (or was it Dece...
The proliferation of distributed computer and the Internet of Things (IoT) technology trend adds another level of complexity and possibility to researching the relationship between ICT and urban resilience. Many scholars and practitioners claim that IoT will make our cities “smarter”; hence, the ...