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Let’s reduce wholesale market costs by tapping the full potential of DERs
The cost and performance of distributed energy resources (DERs) have improved faster than anyone would have expected. Between 2010 and 2017, residential rooftop solar system costs fell over 60%, and lithium-ion battery prices fell 79%. Inverter prices have also fallen, while their functionality has improved in ways that enable the integration of higher penetrations of […]
John Ivison:Timely book warns that Canada’s democracy is threatened by political abuse
Dr John Hollins, past CACOR Chair Board of Directors, posted this book review from the Ottawa Citizen. Political power is no longer located in Parliament, political parties, Cabinet or the bureaucracy. It is held by the PM, his advisers, lobbyists and the rich John Ivison, Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 2019 Just as the Trojans learned […]
Global Heating Targets, how to set and then hit them
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors addresses pathways: What target could Canada actually hit in 2030? When could it actually get to 30% below 2005? The Pathways project of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) examined a reference case – business as planned – and eight further actions to […]
Keeping the Lights on
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, considers “Microgrids: renewables and resilience” Reduce emissions while keeping the lights on – always For millennia the renewable sources of wind and water have been used to provide intermittently useful energy in small quantities; they still are in the less developed world. For more than a […]