That’s great news! One thing I just remembered is that the nuclear power plants (Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde) usually shut down for maintenance in the spring when demand is lowest. Otherwise they normally run 24/7 and there wouldn’t be any time during the day when it would be 100% renewables. California exceeds 100% of energy
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The city of Esbjerg, Denmark is replacing its coal fired city heating system with an amazing giant heat pump, biomass boilers and waste burning boilers. The refrigerant is CO2. Read the description. This is a long 43 minutes but is very comprehensive and interesting. The cost is about 40 million Euros.
This is a very good graphic of the percent of total electricity renewables have grown to since 2000. Notice the bulging in April and September, and flattening during the summer. These are caused by the changes in demand during the hot weather. We need this to be 100% ASAP in order to prevent climate disaster!
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Very short article. Ohio’s largest solar farm will be the largest US agrivoltaics project. The Oak Run Solar Project is 800 MW, with 300 MW battery storage. Ohio’s largest solar farm will also be the US’s largest agrivoltaics project
Great! One less coal plant. There are more than 100 more coal plants that need to be shut down ASAP. Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm will replace its largest coal plant
Another myth debunked. This Electric Viking YouTube video under 10 minutes. “Quote from video starting at about the 8:06. “Now, here is what Climate Energy Finance said about this study. Batteries on wheels – electric vehicles – should be viewed as one of the most important enablers of the full decarbonization of the global energy
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Well, Elon never said it was a plan. He just calculated that there are about 750 watts per square meter at the latitude of the middle of the US. The solar panels are about 20% efficient. So 1/5 of 750 is 150. The US needs about 1300 gigawatts of power. So divide that by 150
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30 Gigawatts! They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes. This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time. It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels. The other 15GW would
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It’s 875 MW solar and 3 GWh of energy storage. The 4600 acre site with nearly 2 million solar panels is not far from Edwards AFB, California. Largest US solar-storage project goes online
