Artists rendering of Tesla’s new gigabatery facility proposed for Monterey California. Monterey County California has given the go ahead to build a 1.2 Gigawatt battery facility that will act as…
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Batteries at Parity With Baseload Coal, Gas and Nuclear
By bmelton Alternative Energy, alternatives, batteries, climate solutions, cost plummet, dispatchable, economics, fossil fuel baseload, grid generation, intermittent, on demand, parity, Solutions, UncategorizedTesla’s 80MW PowerPack substation in Mira Loma, California. Image from Tesla Bloomberg NEF – Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas March 26, 2019 It’s happened, decades ahead…
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Climate Change 2018 Review: The Good and Bad, What Have We Learned? Part 2 – The Good!
By bmelton alternatives, batteries, Carbon Fee and Dividend, CF&D, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, electric vehicles, fossil fuels, Fracking, Global Warming psychology, Green New Deal, in-depth and Popular Press, IRS 45Q Tax incentives, Negative emissions, photovoltaic, Policy, Review 2018, solar, Solutions, Strategy, wind, wind energyby Bruce MeltonClimate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) So much happened in our climate change world in 2018 that we are printing this article in two parts: The…
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Batteries, Wind, Solar, The Paris Path Arrives – Excel Energy Across Central U.S.
By bmelton Alternative Energy, alternatives, batteries, climate solutions, economics, Emissions Scenarios, Paris, solar, Solutions, wind, wind energyXcel Energy, the dominant electricity and natural gas supplier in eight states from Wisconsin through the Dakotas to Texas, with $11 billion in 2017 revenues, and 3.3 million electric and…
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Battery Parity: Already?
By bmelton alternatives, batteries, climate solutions, economics, energy, parity, solar, Solutions, storage, wind, wind energyLet’s make an assumption. I do not believe it is valid based on the work of Mark Jacobson and team at Stanford and The Solutions Project, but for this discussion,…
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