Archives for March 2018

Solar and Wind Need a Larger Electric Grid—and California Might Just Create One

By LAURA WISLAND | [ Blog ] Union of Concerned Scientists Link to article Over the past decade, thousands of megawatts of clean renewable energy have been installed in the West thanks to the declining cost of wind and solar power and state policies like the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). Since solar and wind power […]

A Fossil Fuel Company Tried to Put a Dirty Gas Plant on a Beautiful Coastline. It Failed.

By Jessica A. Knoblauch | Earth Justice Link to article   A California regulators’ latest move to reject the short-sighted proposal is a turning point in the state’s clean energy future. This week, the city of Oxnard, California, became known for being more than just one of the strawberry capitals of the world. The coastal […]

Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.

By David Roberts | Vox Media Link to article A researcher discusses the “duck curve” he helped discover. Back in 2008, a group of researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) noticed a funny-looking shape in their modeling. They were starting to take solar photovoltaic (PV) panels seriously, running projections of what might happen […]