During normal chatter between CACOR members within the privacy of a Google Group, this exchange between four members on Electric Vehicles should be of interest to a wider audience. —————————– Conversation starts ————————— Bill Pugsley: Very important research at U of Toronto based on 2 years of data collection suggests that vulnerable population such as […]
Panel on Reducing Building Energy Footprints
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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 […]
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 […]
Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology
In the future of economics, one of the key defining criteria has to be that the incentive of every agent in the living system, at least in theory, has to be aligned with the well-being of every other agent, every other person and every other living thing. The way we view working life is influenced […]