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CABN was the savior today again!
.19 up. I'm soooo excited. I'm rich! I can get that mansion in the mountains!
And a new URL for MD Energy
http://mdenergyinc.com
MD Energy, Inc., a Solar3D company
Lots of opportunity for more solar...
12,300 megawatts of coal power will shut down in the US in 2015, lots more to come
Michael Graham Richard (@Michael_GR)
http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/12300-megawatts-coal-power-will-shut-down-us-2015-lots-more-to-come.html
Business / Environmental Policy
May 14, 2015
46,000 MW to shut down in the period between 2012-2022
Utilities in the U.S. have to comply with the EPA's new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, also known as MATS, which took effect last month. This means that many coal power plants that don't meet the new maximum emission thresholds are shutting down. So far this year through April, 4,600 megawatts of coal has been removed from the grid, and 7,700 MW are expected to follow suit during the remainder of the year, for a total of 12.3 gigawatts (not a small number, any way to slice it).
This year's closures will represent about 1/3 of all the coal shut downs since 2010. Sadly, the rate is expected to slow down after that, with 7,300 MW expected to go belly up in 2016, and another 7,000 MW planned between 2017 and 2022. Hopefully by then more will be added to the list...
But with just what has already happened since 2012 and what is planned to 2022, the total reduction in U.S. coal power capacity will have been 46,000 MW!
And the coal plants that will remain behind, while far from green, at least won't be quite as bad as the ones that are going away. The average age of units closing between now and 2022 is 56 years, meaning that many are less efficient and have fewer environmental controls than the surviving coal fleet.
The utilities that are shutting down the most coal plants are American Electric Power Co., with 6.5 gigawatts of closures planned between this year and 2022, and Tennessee Valley Authority, with 4.5 gigawatts.
We're not there yet, but a lot of progress has been made. Look at what coal (not alone, but a major player) did to the US in the 1940s:
They had to power-wash buildings because they got so dirty:
We're fighting back!
PRESS RELEASE
Solar Groups Take Next Step in Appeal of Public Service Commission Decision on 2014 We Energies Rate Case
RENEW Wisconsin and the Alliance for Solar Choice ask courts to rule on the legality of the decision.
By RENEW Wisconsin - May 14th, 2015 03:48 pm
MADISON, WI – May 14, 2015 – The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) and RENEW Wisconsin today took their next steps in appealing the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s December 2014 decision to add a discriminatory fee on distributed generation customers in We Energies’ territory.
The groups filed the first set of briefs Thursday, which outlined their arguments in the case. TASC and RENEW Wisconsin explain in the briefs how the record does not contain the necessary evidence to support the Commission’s approval of the additional charge on customer generation (like solar energy).
“The Court must reverse when the Commission’s action depends on any finding of fact that is not supported by substantial evidence in the record,” said Amy Heart, spokesperson for The Alliance for Solar Choice. “Here, the Commission’s own expert witness testified that there was not enough evidence on the record to approve the discriminatory solar charges.”
In fact, Heart pointed out that We Energies’ own study of the costs and benefits of solar in their service territory found that these customers provide a net benefit to all ratepayers. “Unfortunately, the Commission, knowing the benefits, still approved fees for these self--generating customer, which was legally improper,” said Heart.
This is the third case in the past three years seeking judicial review of a decision of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin that discriminates against owners of small distributed renewable energy generating systems. In the previous two cases, the Dane County Circuit Court also remanded all or part of the new rates as lacking a factual basis in the administrative record.
“It is important that we promote and defend Wisconsin renewable energy in all decision--making venues, and in this case that means the courts,” said Tyler Huebner, RENEW Wisconsin’s Executive Director. “A customer’s own investment in solar and other clean energy technologies benefit everyone, and impartial analysis in multiple states proves that. Beyond that, from a public policy perspective, there is significant job creation and economic gains for Wisconsin on the horizon if we can get these policies right.”
The We Energies rate case in fall 2014 sparked unprecedented public opposition and national attention for the three--member Commission, with over 500 Wisconsin residents in attendance at a public hearing in October. Along with the discriminatory rate changes, both groups protested Commissioner Ellen Nowak’s lack of impartiality during the proceeding.
About The Alliance for Solar Choice: The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) leads the rooftop solar advocacy across the country. Founded by the largest rooftop companies in the nation, TASC represents the vast majority of the distributed solar market.
About RENEW Wisconsin: RENEW Wisconsin leads and accelerates the transition to Wisconsin’s renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration. RENEW represents over 50 Wisconsin businesses in the renewable energy industry and hundreds of customers who have installed their own renewable energy systems.
CABN saved the day today...
Government to approve policy on 100 GW solar power in few days: Piyush Goyal
By PTI | 14 May, 2015, 06.02PM IST
GURGAON: The government is likely to approve in few days a final policy on adding 100 GW of solar power, as it targets energy generation of 175 GW from renewable sources by 2022.
"Government has already approved 19 solar power parks, which would generate 12-13 GW. Policy approvals have been done. One final policy (on solar power) of (adding) 1,00,000 MW will be confirmed (approved) by the Cabinet in few days," Power, New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters here.
The minister was here to inaugurate the New Solar Passive Building of the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE).
Goyal also talked about taking on lease barren lands for setting up of solar power plants.
"...despite the fact the opposition parties opposed our Land Reforms Bill, we are finding new avenues," he said, adding that the government is working on an idea to get barren land on lease for setting solar energy projects.
For making micro projects viable, the minister said, "We are coming out with a policy by which it will be compulsory to take solar power (from micro projects) in the grid whenever the grid reaches the remote area. We are very confident that it will kickstart investments in this area."
The Minister also announced establishment of International Solar Policy and Applications Agency, which would be a coalition of Solar resource rich countries for the development of Solar Energy and Solar technology applications.
This would help in addressing special energy needs of these countries and in the long run reduce reliance on fossil fuels by increasing share of solar power in the energy mix.
The minister also said a World Renewable Museum would be established at the NISE campus.
The institute is the apex National Centre of research and development in Solar Energy under New & Renewable Energy. It coordinates solar energy research and technology related work in the country under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).
The minister also launched a biomass knowledge portal which aims to disseminate information about effective use of biomass for power generation.
he Portal would provide information about Biomass resource potential, latest technologies and technical inputs to set up grid connected as well as off-grid projects.
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47285020.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Renewable Energy Fair Custer,WI June 19,20,21
https://www.midwestrenew.org/energyfair
The 26th Annual Energy Fair June 19-21, 2015 - Custer, WI
Each year theMidwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) hosts The Energy Fair, transforming rural Central Wisconsin into the hot spot for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable living education. The Energy Fair brings over 15,000 attendees together to learn the latest and greatest in clean energy and sustainability, connect with others, and take action towards a more sustainable future. The Energy Fair is the nation's longest running energy education event of its kind.
The Energy Fair features:
Over 200 exhibitors - sustainable living and clean energy products
Over 200 workshops - beginner to advanced hands-on education
Clean Transportation Show - featuring exhibitors, vehicles and demos
Green Building Demos - sustainable building techniques in action
Food and Chef Demos - bring sustainability to your dinner table
Inspirational keynotes, lively entertainment, great food, and local beer
"This was my first Energy Fair and it felt like home. What an amazing group of renewable energy veterans! This is the group that built this industry and it is their spirit of industry, invention, responsibility, and determination that has brought solar power to where it is today. Maintaining this ethos as the industry grows is the opportunity and challenge for our generation and I believe we will do those who came before us right. Toward a Brighter Future!" - Mosaic, 2014 Energy Fair Exhibitor
Join us for The 26th Annual Energy Fair, June 19-21, 2015
Renew The Earth Institute
7558 Deer Road
Custer, WI 54423
Dates & Times:
Friday, June 19 - 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 20 - 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 21 - 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Bonus: Volunteer or join as an MREA Member and get in FREE! Register to help as a volunteer or support the MREA as a member.
All tickets are individually priced:
1-Day Admission:
Adult 1-Day Pass: $10 ($15 at Gate)
Student/Senior 1-Day Pass: $8 ($10 at Gate)
Youth 13-18 1-Day Pass: $8 ($10 at Gate)
Youth 12 and under: Free
Weekend Admission:
Adult Weekend Pass: $26 ($35 at Gate)
Student/Senior Weekend Pass: $15 ($20 at Gate)
Youth 13-18 Weekend Pass: $15 ($20 at Gate)
Kids 12 and under: Free
Save money and time at the gate by purchasing your tickets in advance. Reduced prices end June 5, 2015. Advanced ticket sales will end on June 13, 2015 via the web and over the phone. After this date, tickets must be purchased at The Energy Fair. No refunds.
Energy Fair Receives Travel Green Certification
The Energy Fair was recognized for the following best practices:
All food is served on reusable or biodegradable plates and food waste is composted
Shower house for guests is heated by solar water heating system
Organic, local, and fair trade products are purchased
To learn more about Travel Green Wisconsin visit www.travelgreenwisconsin.com
Opening The Corporate Renewable Energy Floodgates
May 13th, 2015 by Rocky Mountain Institute
On Monday and Tuesday this week, more than 75 Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, renewable energy project developers, utilities, and other organizations are gathered in San Francisco for a corporate renewable energy workshop. Co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Institute, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), World Resources Institute (WRI), and BSR, the event aims to collaboratively advance the corporate renewable energy market on several fronts. One of those fronts is corporate purchasing of off-site renewables, particularly wind and utility-scale solar, which is the focus of RMI’s Business Renewables Center.
That focus on off-site renewables is an important piece of the puzzle. Though many corporations have sustainability targets—including metrics for percent renewable energy—efficiency and on-site renewables generally aren’t enough to meet corporate targets, according to RMI managing director Hervé Touati. Successfully hitting corporate clean energy and climate targets essentially requires companies to contract for off-site renewables through power purchase agreements (PPAs).
And there are encouraging signs that the corporate off-site renewables market—full of opportunity—is in fact starting to take off.
The Market is Scaling but not yet Broadening
Data from 2014 and 2015 show major recent signs that the market is scaling—fast—but not yet broadening. Corporations’ role in U.S. renewable energy growth is undoubtedly expanding, but that role remains the purview of a small number of big actors.
According to the American Wind Energy Association’s recently released U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2014, last year corporations and other institutional buyers—including IKEA, Facebook, Microsoft, Walmart, and Yahoo—signed PPAs accounting for over 23 percent of the wind power contracts.
This year is shaping up for even greater corporate influence in new U.S. wind capacity. “We’ve seen that trend continue heading into 2015 as more than half of the 750 MW of wind power contracted in the first quarter of 2015 was by companies,” says Tom Kiernan, CEO of AWEA. That number could be as high as 63 percent of new wind contracts for Q1, according to BRC analysis of publicly announced deals. Yet all that wind comes through just four or five companies.
This year looks to be promising too for corporate solar energy purchases. “In just the first quarter of 2015 there were about 1.2 GW of wind and solar signed through corporate PPAs,” says Jacqueline Lilinshtein, clean energy economics analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That number includes at least 760 MW of off-site wind and utility-scale solar, according to RMI associate Kevin Brehm. Corporate PPAs thus appear to playing a growing role in utility-scale solar, which remains the biggest driver of U.S. solar PV capacity additions, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
“That is on track to be 25 percent of all large solar and wind purchases for 2015,” adds Lilinshtein. “And it looks like this may be the first year where solar corporate PPAs will actually surpass wind.”
Opening the Floodgates with Resources to Unlock the Market
“Major U.S. companies and other non-utility purchasers are increasingly buying wind energy because it’s a smart investment that helps their bottom-line,” says AWEA’s Kiernan. “PPAs allow companies to directly contribute to a more sustainable electricity supply as many of them have set internal environmental and clean power targets.” The 2014 report Power Forward 2.0 confirms Kiernan’s perspective. Some two-thirds of Fortune 100 and almost one-half of Fortune 500 companies have clean energy or climate targets. “Undoubtedly, sustainability goals are an important driver,” says RMI senior associate Stephen Abbott. “And off-site wind and solar are crucial pieces of the puzzle for corporations serious about meeting those targets.”
The focus at this week’s event in San Francisco will be unlocking the market for the many more corporations that could be part of the renewable energy game but so far aren’t, as well as making renewable energy deals faster and easier to complete for corporations that have already dipped a toe in the waters. Toward that end, the BRC will unveil a set of new products—identified by the BRC membership at a previous event in late 2014 and in development for the past six months—designed to alleviate critical hurdles in the way of corporate pursuit of the opportunity.
Those products include a set of technical resources:
Deal Structure Primer: The types of deal structures available in both regulated and deregulated wholesale and retail power markets, including a guide to negotiating virtual PPAs.
Accounting Primer: PPA contracts explained—contracting clauses, terms, and definitions.
Economic Analysis Primer: How to comprehensively value deals to lock in power prices below electricity market prices and protect against natural-gas price volatility.
The products also include a set of organizational resources:
Internal Support Guide: How to build internal company support and recruit a C-level sponsor by demonstrating how renewable energy deals help hit targets.
Deal Process Guide: How to set up a deal team, align its objectives and approach, build support, and obtain a clear mandate for the power-purchase deal.
Deal Dream-Team Guide: Renewable energy deals require the right team to succeed. How to assemble external consultants, auditors, legal firms, and internal champions.
Accessible to BRC members, the primers and guides are available through a curated wiki-style site that is fully searchable and dynamic, allowing members to contribute and work collaboratively. “The BRC’s guides provide an accurate and insightful introduction to the key issues that companies face when they try to buy off-site renewable power,” says Erin Decker, senior manager of sustainability at Salesforce.com, one of the BRC’s founding corporate members.
The contents of BRC guides and primers are gleaned from numerous interviews and case studies that the BRC undertook with corporate buyers, project developers, and third-party service providers with deep experience in off-site renewable energy transactions. The corporate buyers interviewed have already completed deals with a combined capacity of over 1,000 megawatts.
“Working intensely for the past six months with the pioneers in this market we were surprised by three things: 1) the willingness of the pioneers to share their experience with us, 2) the fact that the technical issues were few, common, and well identified, and 3) the fact that most of the time is spent, at least for the first transaction, to reach internal alignment and get internal support,” explains RMI’s Touati. Adds Lily Donge, a principal in RMI’s electricity practice and leader of the Business Renewables Center: “With these guides and primers, companies looking into making these deals will know what the problems might be and how to avoid them. This has the potential to save both money and time on renewable energy transactions.”
“Our observations confirm our initial hypothesis: synthesizing in one place the collective experience and knowledge of the first movers and sharing it with the fast followers will make those fast followers much faster followers,” concludes Touati. And with that, the corporate renewable energy market will broaden and the floodgates open.
OUR carbon beats THEIR carbon!
ACI/WLT/ANR
Patriot Coal files bankruptcy 2nd time in 3 years!
WLT on the way.... too....
Somebody didn't get the rally memo....
NV Energy seeing influx of residents install solar panels
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/29048557/nv-energy-seeing-influx-of-residents-install-solar-panels
They can't compete with our low power prices coming off solar panels!
-Patriot Coal files Chapter 11 again, is in talks with buyer
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/12/patriot-coal-bankruptcy-idUSL3N0Y36G620150512
By Tom Hals
May 12 (Reuters) - Patriot Coal Corp filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, just 18 months after emerging from its previous Chapter 11, and said it was in negotiations with a potential buyer.
The Scott Depot, West Virginia-based company said it was suffering because of low energy prices.
To support its mining and marketing operations during the bankruptcy, Patriot has a commitment from its current secured creditors to provide up to $100 million in financing.
The company emerged from its previous Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2013 after filing in July 2012.
"In light of the challenging market conditions, and after a comprehensive review of our alternatives, the board and management team have determined that this process represents the best path forward for Patriot and its stakeholders," Chief Executive Officer Bob Bennett said in a statement.
The company listed assets and liabilities of more than $1 billion in its bankruptcy petition, which it filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Virginia. It has eight active mining complexes in northern and central Appalachia.
Patriot has reported 1.4 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves.
Patriot emerged from its previous bankruptcy after agreeing with its former parent Peabody Energy to provide $400 million paid over several years to cover future health care benefits for retired mine workers. In return, the mine workers relinquished a 35 percent stake in Patriot.
The impact on that settlement from Tuesday's bankruptcy was unclear, but mine workers said in a statement they had hired lawyers and advisors to protect their benefits.
"We remain just as committed to fighting for our retirees' health care and pension benefits as we were in the last bankruptcy," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said in a statement.
Energy prices have fallen sharply in the past year as U.S. production has boomed and demand from large markets such as China has slowed. Patriot joins other energy-related companies that have filed for bankruptcy this year, including Xinergy Ltd, Dune Energy Inc, BPZ Energy Inc and Quicksilver Resources Inc.
Coal producer Walter Energy Inc skipped an April interest payment on its senior secured notes. A grace period on that payment expires on Friday.
The case is Patriot Coal Corp, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia, No. 15-32450. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware, and Amrutha Gayathri in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza, Lisa Von Ahn, Grant McCool)
Opinion: 100-per-cent renewable energy a paradigm shift
Vancouver plays host to global forum on practical solutions to achieve local prosperity and energy security
By Jose Etcheverry, Special to the Vancouver Sun May 11, 2015 4:55 PM
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+cent+renewable+energy+paradigm+shift/11047314/story.html#ixzz3ZtJ6VgLA
In the Rhein-Hunsrueck district in Germany, 58,600 of 80,000 roofs are suitable for solar PV. Of this, seven per cent of the potential had been used as of 2011. To show its commitment to advancing rooftop solar, the district is installing PV on public administration buildings. From 2007-2011, total capacity on public buildings jumped ten-fold from 35 kW to 366 kW.
The Rhein-Hunsrueck district in Germany is committed to 100-per-cent renewable energy.
Shifting to 100-per-cent renewable energy is possible and a crucial step toward achieving climate security. But what does that shift mean for Canadian families worried about their jobs and household energy expenses?
Almost a decade ago, one of my best friends from the David Suzuki Foundation developed a captivating story about how energy expenses affect Canadian families. During public talks he would ask audiences to visualize a town of 10,000 families and consider their annual energy expenses. If each family spends about $5,000 a year in gas, electricity and heating bills, that’s about $50 million spent every year on energy. This town alone would spend half a billion dollars in a decade.
Assuming those same 10,000 families cover their energy bill the way most Canadians families do, they are sending much of that cash out of their community and extending our reliance on high-carbon energy production. Even though our electricity is relatively low-carbon, the average Canadian in 2012 still used 23 litres of fossil fuel per person per day, producing on average twice the greenhouse gas emissions of Europeans.
If these 10,000 families instead invest in conservation and renewable energy solutions to satisfy their heating, electricity and transportation needs, more of that energy bill would be used to create local jobs, energy security and environmental protection.
Years after hearing this story, I was fortunate in 2013 to meet Bertram Fleck, a sharp politician from the Rhein-Hunsrueck district in Germany, a region of about 100,000 people. He showed me how his community made that energy transition a reality.
Fleck campaigned in 1999 by promising to harness the 370 million euros his region spent on annual energy bills and re-direct the money for local renewable energy. Rhein-Hunsrueck met its 100-per-cent renewable energy target by 2012. It has tripled that achievement today and, by producing more than its needs, export renewable energy to generate local jobs and wealth.
So consider the paradigm-shifting step taken by Vancouver’s council, which has unanimously voted for adopting a 100-per-cent renewable energy target. That crucial goal towards climate protection and energy security has also been set in cities such as San Francisco, Munich and Barcelona, and in countries such as Germany and Uruguay. This bold new campaign for achieving 100-per-cent renewable energy is gaining international momentum and Vancouver will play host May 13-15 to the Global Learning Forum on Renewable Cities. The forum will bring together practical examples and experts from around the world to the first Canadian city with a goal for 100-per-cent renewable energy.
Recent news suggests the forum is well-timed. The governor of California recently announced greatly increased greenhouse gas-reduction targets. For Canadians, that is an auspicious announcement as two of our largest provinces, Quebec and Ontario, are married under their cap-and-trade treaty to an increasingly ambitious California. Although California’s new climate target has been widely celebrated, it has also been criticized due to the lack of a concrete plan to achieve those formidable GHG targets.
Vancouver’s Global Forum on Renewable Cities can help fill that knowledge gap by providing concrete ideas on how to invest in emission reductions that also increase local energy security, create jobs and help diversify local economies.
Canada urgently needs such ideas to address the climate crisis, diversify its economy, create jobs and foster wealth creation. The good news is that, as Rhein-Hunsrueck and many other leaders are proving, it is possible to do well by doing good.
Jose Etcheverry is an associate professor and co-chair of the Sustainable Energy Initiative of York University
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+cent+renewable+energy+paradigm+shift/11047314/story.html#ixzz3ZtKUZhVe
Thanks for the info on this. My dad was the chemical engineer.....
This goes a little over my head, but I'm here on blind faith...
Hoping the lottery ticket pays off..
It would be wonderful to get this back to $6 again! :=)
OT:Our little brother CABN is moving great today on their news....
CABN 0.0133 +121.67%
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/1193839.htm
Carbon Sciences Announces Successful Production of High Quality Graphene Using a Novel Low Cost CVD Process
Marketwired
Company Funded Research Project at UCSB Completes Initial Development of a Graphene Fabrication Process and System
May 11, 2015: 03:01 AM ET
Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTCBB: CABN), focused on the development of a breakthrough technology to mass-produce graphene, today announced that the research project funded by the company at the University of California, Santa Barbara ("UCSB"), has successfully demonstrated the production of high quality graphene using a low cost chemical vapor deposition ("CVD") process.
Due to its breakthrough natural properties, many experts believe that graphene is the miracle material that will power the next generation of electronics, communication and composites. However, the key obstacle to the widespread use of graphene today is the high manufacturing cost of high quality graphene. The least expensive method, CVD, currently used in the electronics industry is still too expensive for enabling mass-market graphene applications such as flexible electronics, unbreakable touchscreens, sensors, and energy.
The UCSB research team led by, Dr. Kaustav Banerjee, has successfully engineered a low cost CVD system that is optimized for graphene production using proprietary processes, catalysts and techniques. By fully optimizing and innovating various steps in the process the team has produced very high quality graphene. The system can also be used to customize doping to create application specific graphene.
Bill Beifuss, CEO of Carbon Sciences, commented, "After a very intense and highly focused development effort by Dr. Banerjee's team, we are finally seeing very promising results. Now that the team has demonstrated a low cost laboratory method with proprietary processes, we can begin to look at transforming that into a viable commercial technology. Some of the steps in the process are truly innovative and are very likely to dramatically reduce the cost of making large quantities of graphene."
Carbon Sciences is currently funding a year long sponsored research program at UCSB for the development of a low cost graphene manufacturing process.
About Carbon Sciences, Inc.
Carbon Sciences is focused on the development of a breakthrough technology to mass-produce graphene, the new miracle material. Graphene, a sheet of pure carbon that is only one atom thick, is flexible, transparent, impermeable to moisture, stronger than diamonds and more conductive than gold. Ever since the Nobel Prize was awarded for its discovery, experts believe graphene to be the miracle material that will enable revolutionary applications such as bendable touchscreen displays, rapid charge batteries, super-capacitors, low cost solar cells, extreme high-speed semiconductors, biosensors, as well as water purification. While the raw materials to make graphene are readily available, the lack of an industrial scale manufacturing process has hindered its commercial use. Carbon Sciences is supporting the development of a breakthrough process that will transform natural gas into commercial size sheets of graphene that can be fine-tuned with application-specific electrical and materials properties. To learn more about Carbon Sciences, please visit www.CarbonSciences.com
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I guess it was a good move to buy at .0055 on friday.
Counters my stupid move of selling HYSR at .005 the DAY it rallied 30x...
Why Energy in 2025 Will Be Almost Unrecognizable
Innovation has revolutionized energy in the past decade, but the next decade could turn the energy industry upside down.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05/10/energy-in-2025-will-be-almost-unrecognizable.aspx
In 2005, who would have thought that by 2015 the U.S. would be nearly independent of oil outside of North America, an electric vehicle would have won Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and solar energy would be one of the fastest growing forms of new energy generation?
While the energy industry hasn't been known as a place where Innovation flourishes, the past decade has shown that new technologies may be ready to compete against the energy sources we've been using for the past century. All told, we could be in for a renaissance in the energy sector. Here is a detailed look at the numerous ways the energy industry could experience nothing less than a renaissance.
Distributed power will be commonplace
ust five years ago it was rare for a homeowner or business to generate energy for its own use. By the end of 2015, over a million rooftops around the country will have some form of solar electricity generation, and while solar accounts for just around 1% of total electricity generation in the U.S. the importance of this milestone cannot be overstated.
A decade from now, millions more rooftops will have solar energy, and the power over the future of energy will lie with consumers. But there's one big advancement needed to take this energy shift to another level.
Energy storage will transform the grid
Solar energy can only go so far to transform energy, because it's an intermittent energy source and has to rely on access to the electric grid. But with energy storage, the dynamic changes quickly. Consumers could conceivably leave the grid altogether, businesses could use whatever energy source is most cost effective no matter the time of day, and even utility-scale storage could stabilize the grid.
TESLA MOTORS ISN'T THE ONLY ONE EYEING ENERGY STORAGE. SUNEDISON BOUGHT SOLAR GRID STORAGE TO ADD ENERGY STORAGE TO ITS PORTFOLIO. IMAGE SOURCE: SUNEDISON.
A lot of companies are already seeing energy storage as a huge market in the future. Of course, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) recently launched the Powerwall and Powerpack for the residential and large scale markets respectively and is building the Gigafactory in part to supply energy storage products. If everything goes as planned, it will sell storage to utilities and directly to consumers in deals with installers like its sister company SolarCity (NASDAQ:SCTY).
SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR) is also in the storage market, partnering with Sunverge-- both companies are investments of French energy giant Total (NYSE:TOT)-- to provide residential energy storage solutions. Like SolarCity, it could add value to solar customers by bringing energy storage and energy management services into the fold. A decade from now, this could give consumers total control over their energy.
Electric vehicles will be a very real option
Just think how far electric vehicles have come in just the past five years. According to InsideEVs, in 2011 there were 345 electric vehicles sold in 2010 -- all in December -- and in 2014 there were 320,713 electric vehicles sold. Tesla Motors alone plans to make 500,000 electric vehicles in 2020 and by a decade from now the electric-vehicle market should be many millions of units annually.
This will not only shift demand from oil to electricity, but it will also allow consumers to fuel their vehicle with energy they produce (solar) and even bring the electric vehicle into energy storage management.
No doubt, there will be major technology advancements in electric vehicles over the next decade, making 300-, 400-, or even 500-mile trips possible on a single charge. That will be the game changer that electric vehicles need.
Something you've never heard of
I've covered a few of the energy revolutions we can already see coming, but there will undoubtedly be new technologies that will disrupt energy in the next 10 years.
Toyota is working on hydrogen vehicles, Bill Gates is funding research for fusion reactors, Audi is making diesel from the sunlight. It's also very possible that electric vehicles will come outfitted with their own energy production, as Ford is testing (seen on the right). Given the speed at which innovation has happened over the past decade, it's easy to see that even more innovations are coming in the next decade.
Choice will dominate energy in the future
Never have so many energy sources been so accessible to consumers and businesses as they are today, and that trend will only grow over the next decade. If you want to live a carbon-neutral life, you'll be able to. If you want to generate all of your own energy, that option will be available. Or if you just want the lowest cost possible, you can do that as well.
No longer will we be tied to one energy source for transportation and another for powering our homes, with little choice on where that energy comes from or what it costs. The future will be full of choices that may seem impossible even today.
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Would be nice if this happened to us....
Tesla Motors Inc Deal Confusingly Sends Riviera Tool Company Up 12,000%
Tesla Motors acquired Riviera Tool LLC, a privately held automotive suppliers. Investors bought shares of Riviera Tool Company, a defunct public company
Nice chunk of revenue
Look at all those Solar Panels to build those batteries.!
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