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On Electric Vehicle Usage and the Smart Grid

By Sarvapali Ramchurn on June 24, 2011 Comments Off on On Electric Vehicle Usage and the Smart Grid charge points, charging cycle, Demand Side Management, Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, electric car, electriv vehicle, EV, EV charging cycle, grid operator, mobility-on-demand, smart grid, usage scenario

Examines the subtleties of electric vehicle charging cycles, and the interactions with smart grid variable pricing, and the user’s own varying usage scenarios.

Natural Gas Complements Wind & Solar — Or Does It?

By Chris Varrone on June 8, 2011 Comments Off on Natural Gas Complements Wind & Solar — Or Does It? balancing area, Carnegie Mellon, Chris Varrone, Christopher Mims, clean energy, Demand Side Management, energy, energy storage, fossil fuels, Fracking, gas turbine, GE, General Electric, grid, grid operators, HVDC, interconnects, Jeff Immelt, natural gas, Paulina Jaramillo, renewable energy, RenewElec, shale gas, solar power, transmission, UHV, variability, wind, wind energy, wind energy intermittency, wind forecast data, wind intermittency, wind power

This post looks at the message promoted by the gas industry that natural gas is the necessary complement to renewables such as solar and wind, because the latter are variable and thus need a backup power source that can quickly be brought on line. There are other and perhaps even better ways of addressing variability that also need looking at.

Ten Clean and Green Energy Stocks for 2011

By Tom Konrad on January 13, 2011 2 Comments @AltEnergyStocks, AltEnergyStocks.com. Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse, alternative transportation technologies, American Superconductor Corporation, AMSC, and geothermal. Wind, and transportation authorities, biomass, Biomass Stock, CFA, Chinese wind manufacturers, clean energy, clean energy Exchange Traded Funds, clean energy index fund, clean energy mutual funds, clean transportation, COMV, Comverge, conservation, continuously variable vehicle transmission systems, CVT.TO, CVTech Group, CVTPF.PK, David Gold, demand response, Demand Side Management, DR, electric car, electric grid, electric utilities, electricity system construction, electricity transmission, enabling technologies, energy efficiency, energy systems, EnerNoc, ENOC, eponymous superconducting cables, ETFs, fossil fuels, FSC sustainability certification, geothermal heat pump stock, geothermal heat pumps, geothermal power, Geothermal Stocks, infrastructure markets, IPO, Nevada Geothermal Power, NGLPF.OB, NGP.V, PCH, peak capacity, Peak Oil Investments, pipeline operators, portfolio, Potlatch, Ram Power, RAMPF, REIT, Renewable Energy World, RPG.TO, small investor, smart grid, solar;, stable grid, Stephen Lacey, Tata Nano, Telvent Git S.A., Timberland, TLVT, Tom Konrad, utilities, variable renewable resources, Veolia Environnement, waste water, Water, Waterfurance Renewable Energy, WaterFurnace, WFI.TO, WFIFF.PK, wind, wind component supplier

This is my fourth annual list of renewable energy and energy efficiency stocks since I began the series in January 2008, which I expect to outperform in 2011.