The photovoltaic market is set to rise from the ashes and grow at 11 percent annually to $155 billion by 2018, as record low prices boost demand and double the market to 61.7 gigawatts, says a Lux Research report. The Market Size Update 2013: Return to Equilibrium report says the PV market will reach a …Continue Reading
As a region, North America is the world’s leading market for microgrids with a planned, proposed, and deployed capacity of 2,505 MW, according to a report from Navigant Research. The 2Q 2013 Microgrid Deployment Tracker from Navigant finds this represents an additional 55 projects since the 4Q 2012 Tracker and an additional 417 MW. Of …Continue Reading
Hampered by an uncooperative utility and political fall-out, Ontario has fallen short of its goal of creating 50,000 jobs and 5 gigawatts of renewable energy power with its ‘buy local’ feed-in tariff program, despite gathering early momentum by generating 31,000 jobs and turning one in 7 farmers into energy producers, says a report by the …Continue Reading
The concept of demand response, which aims to achieve stability on the electricity grid by ensuring that demand does not exceed supply of electric power, is far more developed in North America than the rest of the world, with almost 95 percent of such programs located in that region, according to a study by Navigant Research. The Demand Response Tracker …Continue Reading
State legislatures are focusing on energy efficiency policy this session, but there could be a widening gap between leading states and laggards, research by the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University suggests. The data comes from the center’s recently debuted Advanced Energy Legislation Tracker. So far in the 2013 legislative session, …Continue Reading
The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) says geothermal development waned during the 1990s, but new developments in geothermal power have resumed since 2005, attributed to the extension of the federal production tax credit in 2005 to geothermal facilities, the ITC cash grant program, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, coupled with growing state-level recognition of …Continue Reading
Building efficiency is only now joining the information revolution that has changed how so many industries operate, according to a Greentech Efficiency report. While information quality has dramatically improved for sectors such as transportation – for example, by allowing companies to track shipments on a granular level – such web-based tools are just now becoming …Continue Reading
CenterPoint Energy, PG&E and SDG&E have topped a ranking of smart grid maturity in North America released by GTM Research. The three utilities each scored 4.2 on the average maturity scale, a metric that the report – titled The Utility Smart Grid Outlook in North America 2013 – bases on a utility’s smart grid portfolio, …Continue Reading
Insatiable demand for popular online applications on the go has created a “sustainability time bomb” for cloud services, according to researchers from Australia’s University of Melbourne. The Power of Wireless Cloud, published by the university’s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications, warns that industry has vastly underestimated energy consumption across the cloud ecosystem as more people access services using …Continue Reading
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has launched an online, interactive view of the government’s national and state energy data and information currently available to the public. The agency designed the new portal with a range of users in mind, including policy makers, energy analysts, and the general public, who want to locate and compare …Continue Reading
