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What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance?

What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance?

By Tom Raftery on July 2, 2015

The cost of solar power is falling in direct relation to the amount of solar power modules being produced. With no end in sight to this price reduction, we should soon be in a world where energy is in abundance. Moore’s Law, the law that says the number of transistors in computers doubles every two […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Energy, solar, Solar power

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010

By Tom Raftery on July 9, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs tags: obama solar power […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged coal fired power plants, emeter, green jobs, GreenNumbers, hosepipe ban, lithium batteries, minerals, photovoltaic, sequoia, Solar power, Spain, subsidies, tariffs

SunSpec Alliance setting standards for the solar industry

SunSpec Alliance setting standards for the solar industry

By Tom Raftery on May 6, 2010

Photo credit Tom Raftery (Me!)
Sunspec.org is an alliance of renewable industry companies whose aim is to define communication standards data monitoring for the solar power industry.
Up until now there haven’t been any standards agreed around data communication in the solar power industry which added huge cost and complexity to the monitoring and management of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged data communication, iec, ieee, Renewable energy, smart grid, solar, Solar power, standards, sunspec alliance

US Smart Grid Future Looking Bright?

US Smart Grid Future Looking Bright?

By Tom Raftery on October 30, 2009

Photo credit Barack Obama
President Barack Obama was in Florida on Tuesday this week for the official opening of Florida Power and Light’s new solar energy power plant. The 90,000+ solar panel plant, which has been installed across 180 acres of the 5,000 acre FPL property, is expected to generate 25MW of clean electricity (enough […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Barack Obama, Energy, fpl, Renewable energy, smart grid, Solar power, stimulus funding | 1 Response

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