Category Archives: Renewables

Low Costs Continue to Drive Growth of Renewables

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that in the last four years, over half of the new utility-scale generation capacity in the U.S. has come from renewable technologies: Source: EIA Today … Continue reading →

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The EPA Has Withdrawn the Clean Power Plan – So What’s Next?

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Discussions in Washington on how to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change seem endless. In 2015, following failure of Congress to develop a legislative solution, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released … Continue reading →

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Three Western Governors Talk Energy

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator In some ways Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming look a lot alike. Parts of each state are sparsely populated prairie, and each state has beautiful mountains and wonderful skiing. Each state is an important … Continue reading →

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Hawaii Electric – Leading the Way to 100% Renewables

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator As low load growth, increasing renewable generation, closing of traditional baseload fossil fuel plants, growth of distributed resources, and decreasing cost of storage have all become a reality, energy utilities are forced to … Continue reading →

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Energy Prices Aren’t Always Predictable

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Not an energy trader? You might be grateful for that. Predicting price behavior is seemingly harder and harder. History would tell us that in regions with high penetrations of renewables, an event that … Continue reading →

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Demand Side Management Key to California’s Changing Grid

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator The role of demand side management (DSM) programs traditionally has been three-fold: reduce overall usage through energy efficiency (EE) efforts (for example, weatherization or more efficient light bulbs) reduce usage at times of system … Continue reading →

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What is the Least-cost Source of Electricity in Your Community?

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Average Costs Across the U.S. In our June 2016 blog post titled Economics, Not Policy Mandates, Drive the Growth of Renewables we described how the price of utility-scale wind and solar projects was becoming … Continue reading →

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Corporate Purchasers Are As Important as Utilities in Renewables Growth

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator  In recent years, new wind and solar electric generating capacity has outpaced all other sources of power. In 2016, the two renewables sources grew by more than 20,000 MW compared to the … Continue reading →

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Renewable Natural Gas: A Viable Fuel for Power Generation and Transportation

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Christina Nagy-McKenna, Enerdynamics Instructor Most of us think of natural gas as a reliable, plentiful fossil fuel. Less discussed is its renewable equivalent: biomethane, a biogas that is the result of the decomposition of organic matter. Once processed, this … Continue reading →

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From Where Will the Next Wave of Energy Research and Development Come?

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Energy is fundamental to modern life. Yet according to the International Energy Agency, more than 1.2 billion people live without access to electricity, and more than 2.7 billion are without clean cooking … Continue reading →

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