posts tagged as Grid reliability
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October 2021
California’s grid is vulnerable, and high temperatures this past summer have clearly demonstrated its weaknesses. Between brownouts and calls on citizens to voluntarily...
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September 2021
In 2011, Germany began its “Energiewende”, energy transition, closing nuclear and coal plants and constructing wind and solar farms, while subsidizing them...
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September 2021
According to the Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study, by 2035 solar energy has the "potential to power 40 percent of the nation's...
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September 2021
In 2020, CAISO curtailed 1.5 million megawatt-hours of utility-scale solar, or 5 percent of its utility-scale solar production because supply exceeded demand...
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September 2021
A new working paper from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution explains that companies are moving their headquarters out of California in droves. The...
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August 2021
After a 2011 tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany began its Energiewende—energy transition—closing nuclear plants and constructing wind and solar...
