This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and InvestigateWest. A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it. On August 14, 2018, Joshua Novacheck, a 30-year-old research engineer for the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was presenting the most important study of his […]
Sweden first in the world: Electric car chargers are used to relieve the electricity grid
In recent years, we have seen the news that the Swedish electricity grid, especially in southern Sweden, cannot guarantee a stable supply of electricity. This has led a couple of companies to consider not investing in new factories in Skåne. Now the electricity company Tibber is pulling its weight by, for the first time in the world, […]
The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world
The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap? By Stephen Buranyi On a sweltering Thursday evening in Manhattan in the summer of 2019, people across New York City were preparing for what meteorologists predicted would be the […]
We Should Drive EVs To Use Extra Electricity Capacity
We Should Drive EVs To Use Extra Electricity Capacity Dr. Art Hunter, Canadian COR Board of Directors, shared a link into a CACOR discussion group. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/14/we-should-drive-evs-to-use-extra-electricity-capacity/ Ian Whyte replied: Hello Art, All: It seems to me that it would make more sense to reduce capacity than figure out ways to use up ‘excess’ capacity. […]
John Meyer Canadian Energy History May 2020
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