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Batteries at Parity With Baseload Coal, Gas and Nuclear

By alternatives, Batteries, climate solutions, economics, Solutions, Uncategorized

Bloomberg NEF – Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas March 26, 2019 It’s happened, decades ahead of schedule. Lithium-ion batteries are at parity with baseload coal, gas and nuclear.  Those new gigabattery factories are responsible. it’s amazing what giga scaling can do to costs.  The latest cost plummet was 35 percent since…

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Batteries, Wind, Solar, The Paris Path Arrives – Excel Energy Across Central U.S.

By alternatives, Batteries, climate solutions, economics, Emissions Scenarios, Solutions

  Batteries, Wind, Solar, The Paris Path Arrives – Excel Energy Across Central U.S. Xcel Energy, the dominant electricity and natural gas supplier in eight states from Wisconsin through the Dakotas to Texas, with $11 billion in 2017 revenues, and 3.3 million electric and 1.8 million gas customers, is proving that wind and solar energy…

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Yes, We Can Get 100 Percent of our Energy From Renewable Resources

By alternatives, climate solutions, economics, Solutions, Strategy

Yes, We Can Get 100 Percent of our Energy From Renewable Resources A comprehensive review of hundreds of studies on the feasibility of 100 percent alternative energy. In March 2017, Heard et al., published a study of 24 works on the feasibility of 100 percent renewable energy. Their findings were not favorable. But on April…

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