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Category Archives: Renewables
Fracking and Solar: Friends, Foes or the Bridge to Clean Energy Adoption?
This week we’re sharing another guest post from our friends at SolarReviews.com by Emily Hois, SolarReviews.com Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has been widely criticized by environmentalists who cite concerns with water pollution and methane leakage from this high-volume method of extracting … Continue reading
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Xcel Energy Tackles Beetle-Kill Trees in Colorado With Biogas Generation
We are excited to feature the following post from the blog team at SolarReviews.com. Read more of its insightful articles at http://www.solarreviews.com/blog. by Chris Meehan Colorado’s pine and spruce forests are being devastated by beetles that bore under their bark, reproducing and … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged biogas, Electricity generation, Electricity Training, Energy Education, Renewable Energy
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Will Renewables Finally Drive a Distributed Generation Revolution?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor My first job in the utility industry was as a cogeneration engineer with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). PG&E was years behind schedule in getting its nuclear power plant Diablo Canyon … Continue reading
Will China transform the world of energy?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor When I started in the energy business back in the early 1980’s, the utility paradigm was to continually build more power plants to serve growing customer loads. This lead to environmental and … Continue reading
Is the U.S. Ready for National Greenhouse Gas Regulation?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Flash back eight years ago to 2005. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from energy consumption were increasing annually with emissions having grown by almost 20% since 1990. The Bush Administration announced in 2001 … Continue reading
Germany Provides Working Model for High-penetration Solar on the Distribution Grid
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Though in 2012 solar power made up approximately 0.1% of the electric generation in the United States, solar output has increased sevenfold over the last five years. Is it possible that this … Continue reading
Renewables Drive Western Electricity Markets to Real-time Competition
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Quietly, but seemingly inexorably, U.S. wholesale markets continue to march toward higher levels of competition. Later this year, Entergy will bring its 35,000 MW of load into the Midwest ISO (MISO). And … Continue reading
Posted in Renewables
Tagged CAISO, Electric Markets, Electricity Training, Energy Training, MISO, Renewable Energy, Solar, System Operators, Wind power
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Renewables Development in the Emerging World May Lead to a New Energy Paradigm
By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Do a Google search for renewable power and you will find thousands of links to sites covering renewable power development in the U.S. and in Europe. But outside of China and maybe … Continue reading
Posted in Renewables
Tagged DESERTEC, Energy Training, Renewable Energy, Renewable Generation, Renewable technology
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How Did U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hit a 20-year Low?
By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Over the last 10 years, we have seen arguments ebb and flow over greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Not too long ago, federal legislation limiting carbon emissions seemed imminent. Then the … Continue reading
Costa Rica’s Commitment to a Renewable Energy Future
Inside a wind turbine in Costa Rica by John Ferrare, Enerdynamics CEO With more than 90% of its electricity generated from renewable energy sources and goals to reach 95% by 2014, Costa Rica is certainly one of the greenest countries … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Energy Training, Renewables
Tagged Costa Rica, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
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