Understanding Manufacturing Economics for Grid-scale Energy Storage

January 25, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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I have a new favorite word — aggregation. At the risk of sounding like a reporter, I’m going to summarize a pre-holiday news story you might have missed but need to know about.

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Understanding Manufacturing Economics for Grid-scale Energy Storage

Smart Grid Initiatives Address Cyber Security, Renewable Energy Intermittency

January 25, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility’s control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in early November. Though renewable intermittency adds to the challenge of stabilizing a grid, the forum revealed new evidence of real-world smart grid load shifting that continues to chip away at the tired argument that renewable energy cannot successfully integrate into a legacy grid.

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Smart Grid Initiatives Address Cyber Security, Renewable Energy Intermittency

When We Struggle, We Learn

January 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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If there was one key takeaway from the most recent RenewableEnergyWorld.com and Solar Power-gen webcast it was that the year ahead will be difficult for large-scale solar power development due to poor access to capital, an uncertain policy landscape, the pending trade case against China and module prices that are too low to support a healthy indust

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When We Struggle, We Learn

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