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AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience
To achieve clean energy targets, many jurisdictions will have to overbuild renewables, increasing curtailment, or wasting of renewable energy. LDES could reduce or eliminate curtailment, allowing renewables to produce at full capacity whenever the weather is aligned.
David Roberts • There's real long-duration energy storage now. Can it find a market?
Solar energy has fluctuated from zero to a peak of 46GW, but the variation is even more dramatic as a % of total energy production: from zero to more than 50% of the total .
How to deal with this huge fluctuation in production? What will happen if that fluctuation increases even more, following plans for additional wind and solar parks?
There are a n
... See moreThe Econolog • Can Electricity Storage Bail Out Renewable Energy?
As challenging as such arrangements are, they rely on technically mature (and still improving) solutions—that is, on more efficient PV cells, large onshore and offshore wind turbines, and high-voltage (including long-distance direct current) transmission. If costs, permitting processes, and not-in-my-backyard sentiments were no obstacles, these tec
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Paradoxically, the challenge for the entrepreneurs who will create Energy 2.0 is to think small.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
With the right mechanisms in place, DERs will create a flexible grid by helping supply meet demand in a dynamic system. This represents a very exciting opportunity for electrification, with several software companies already developing solutions to make electricity demand digital and efficient.
Grace Penders • Electrifying Everything: Let's Get Flexible
distributed energy boils down to two basic strategies: The first is to harvest as much power as possible locally, close to where it is consumed, from small-scale, low-carbon sources. The second is to wring the maximum amount of useful work out of every unit of energy available.