Tag Archives: Renewables

I discovered a new visualization on Tableau Public recently.  It shows historic electricity generation by fuel type for all fifty states from 1990 to 2014. (The website says energy production, but after doing some digging I confirmed it is actually electricity production.) Below is a screenshot

The big eclipse has come an gone, and the US power grid seemed to pass the test with flying colors.  Lots of preparation by utilities took place before the event (see my earlier blogpost here.), and it seems to have paid off.  All reports say there were no problems, though the weather was very coo

Back in March I talked about California's "duck curve". (see here)  One of the interesting side-effects (or challenges) of this situation will come to the forefront on August 21st, when a solar eclipse is scheduled to hit the country.  The large amount of solar capacity in place in California will

Page B1 of today's Wall Street Journal (see here) had a large article about big proposed long distance power line projects.  As discussed in the article, it can take an extremely long time to get these types of projects done, even though they are often planned for the expansion of "green" energy so

On March 6 the EIA put out a release stating that wind had now passed hydro as the renewable resource with the most installed capacity in the US. (see release here)  The EIA divides the continental US into nine different regions, so I took a look at historical hydro and wind generation at a region

On Monday there was an article on page B1 in the Wall Street Journal discussing California's plans for increasing its use of renewable energy. (see here)  There were a number of different issues discussed in the article.  California's goal is to have 50% of it power be generated by renewable resou

There was an interesting article in the latest Fortune magazine discussing the renewables efforts of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. (See here.)  According to the article, Berkshire Hathaway has spent $17B on renewable energy since 2004, and the company is on track to spend $1B in 2016.  One