Until relatively recently, generation of electricity with wind and solar has not been cost competitive. Growth has largely been due to subsidies and renewable energy mandates. Due to decreasing cost, ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Energy optimization firm GridBeyond is using AI to manage batteries and flexible loads, helping balance renewable intermittency and delay costly grid upgrades. The approach is gaining traction as ...

Researchers designed and optimized a grid-connected hybrid energy storage system that combines solar PV, batteries, and ...

Why So Grim About Iran? A Strait-Up Debacle Electric Vehicles: Charging Woes (Still) Audio By Carbonatix A major problem with solar and wind-powered energy is intermittency. The sun doesn’t always ...

Avid supporters of coal, oil, and gas (and opponents of wind and solar energy, but I repeat myself) seem convinced that they’ve got the ultimate gotcha arguments in “intermittency” and “energy density ...

Why So Grim About Iran? A Strait-Up Debacle Electric Vehicles: Charging Woes (Still) Audio By Carbonatix Economist Timothy Taylor has an interesting blog post about the environmentalist dream to ...

The wind power industry has exploded over the past decade. In the U.S. alone, almost 40,000 MW of wind power have come online since 2000. As more wind generation has been added, grid operators have ...

If you’ve been paying attention to energy issues in the media lately, you may have encountered a curious narrative that’s starting to gain traction among supporters of renewable energy. Namely, that ...

This is the first article in a deep dive in a series on the five challenges transmission system operators (TSOs) will face in 2022 and beyond. In a bid to limit the effects of climate change—and in ...

One of the annoying arguments against solar and wind power is "intermittency" -- the fact that the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow. This allegedly proves that solar and wind ...