Can Puerto Rico go 100% solar?
With seasonal variations in output of only around 30% Puerto Rico is at an ideal latitude for solar power, and despite generally low capacity factors (caused by cloudiness) it can be argued that if...
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This week’s Blowout features Germany, where the Greens have dropped their demands for a fossil-fuel phaseout as a condition of entering a coalition government and the coal-fired Energiewende is set to...
View ArticleGrid-Scale Storage of Renewable Energy: The Impossible Dream
The utopian ambition for variable renewable energy is to convert it into uniform firm capacity using energy storage. Here we present an analysis of actual UK wind and solar generation for the whole of...
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This week we return to the Big South Australian Battery (BSAB), the alleged success of which – the “Tesla effect” – is spawning a raft of similar projects elsewhere in the country. Coming after we have...
View ArticleBlowout Week 215
This week’s lead story highlights the perils of basing policy decisions on speculative computer models. It seems that the ozone layer isn’t healing as predicted after all, so the dangers of man-made...
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Britain’s free market approach to green energy is not going to save humanity from climate change, claims Labour’s Jeremy Corbin in this week’s feature story. So let’s nationalize the UK energy...
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This week's lead article features the "imminent end of cheap finance" - does this mean disaster for the renewable energy sector? We follow up with our usual mix of stories from around the world - OPEC;...
View ArticleBlowout Week 248
In this week's Blowout we feature China, where the central government's edict to cancel over 100 planned coal plants is being ignored by local authorities who are continuing to build them anyway (the...
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This week's feature story exposes the mess Germany's Energiewende has become, and in the follow-up story how it's torpedoing Europe's carbon emissions goals. Coming after we have the Trump-OPEC war of...
View ArticlePowering the Tesla Gigafactory
Tesla has repeatedly claimed in publications, articles and tweets from Elon Musk that its Reno, Nevada Gigafactory will be powered 100% by renewables. Specifics on exactly how Tesla plans to do this...
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