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Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same
New battery storage techniques are about to change the cost and availability of renewable energy on the utility grid.
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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It
This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]
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Two Options for the Strait of Hormuz in a Decarbonized World
The most useful way to think about the Strait of Hormuz in a decarbonized future is not as an oil story that fades away as the energy transition advances. It is a systems story about where risk sits in the architecture of the economy. In the fossil era, Hormuz matters … [continued]
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While Hinkley Nuclear Was Being Built, The UK Grid Decarbonized
The latest announcement about Hinkley Point C was predictable. The first reactor at the plant in Somerset is now expected to begin generating electricity in 2030. The cost estimate has climbed again, now reaching roughly £35B in 2015 pounds or about £49B in current money according to Electricité de France. … [continued]
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The New War of the Currents
Why standardising bidirectional charging is key to enabling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and driving Europe’s next energy revolution. More than a century ago a fierce technological and marketing battle raged between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla to establish the standard for electrical power distribution. One favoured Direct Current (DC), the other Alternating … [continued]
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