Energy in Transition
Solving the energy trilemma
Vietnam – the next offshore wind market in Asia?
I’ve just comeback from my short business trip to Vietnam and the first Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Wind Power conference in Hanoi. But I’ve returned with mixed feelings. Have you ever been in a situation where certain actions or conclusion ...
2018 Energy Trends: Connected Lighting is the Future (Part 2)
For my last post, we explored two emerging trends in connected lighting that will define 2018. Standardization around a protocol, like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), will help simply installation and allay interoperability fears. And, once the general p ...
Offshore wind setting the price point for large scale low carbon generation
Those of us who work in the Renewable Energy sector often find ourselves on the back foot when defending subsidies for low carbon energy generation. We all remember the allegation that, in 2013, David Cameron ordered aides to ‘get rid of all the gr ...
Can Europe expand power transmission in time?
Over the last hundred years or so, Europe has built up a network of power transmission systems of which it can be proud. These systems generally perform so well that people across the continent take a reliable energy supply for granted. ...
2018 Energy Trends: Connected Lighting is the Future (Part 1)
2018 may well be the coming out party for connected lighting. Connected lighting holds tons of promise – from allowing utilities to lower M&V costs to integrating Automated Demand Response (ADR) at the product level. However, a skeptical public ...
The “Happy Hour Effect” – PV, Electric Vehicles and Learning Thermostats Walk into a Bar…!
Utilities are facing the confluence of three residential trends over which they have little or no control, but are tasked with meeting its consequences. The effects of all three of these trends coincide at about the same time of day, potentially wr ...
Can ‘Smart ZNE’ address feeder hotspots?
I used to be a distribution grid planner in an era where utilities had a steadily growing customer base, and where grid planning and load shapes were predictable. This was before renewables started becoming more cost competitive, and traditional ...
Foundations for Success: Three Steps to Full Turbine Repowering from the Bottom Up
Many U.S. developers are considering repowering for their aging wind farms to requalify them for the renewable energy production tax credit. With nearly 30 percent of U.S. installed capacity over 10 years old this year (25,410 MW out of current 84,40 ...
Trimming the Duck Curve with Energy Efficiency
Solar energy is potentially the largest energy source on Earth. The amount of solar energy that hits 1 square mile in a year is estimated to be the energy equivalent of 4 million barrels of oil[1]Harnessing the power of the sun will be essential if w ...
Spring has sprung: Anticipating the AESP Spring Conference
The days are getting longer, the smell of flowers is in the air, and emerging AC loads are signaling the start of the annual summer peak. All these clues point to one conclusion: the AESP Spring Conference in Atlanta is just around the corner. As ...