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…2-4 illustrate the volatility of wind and solar generation at today’s grid penetration, providing rules of thumb around intermittency. Pages 5-6 illustrate the strange consequences once renewables surpass 25% of…
…2019 levels, yet gas demand only fell by 13%. Energy price inelasticity allows for energy market volatility, which we think is structurally increasing in the global energy system, benefitting energy…
…Added to cart Power grids are changing with the ramp-up of wind and solar. In particular, power pricing is becoming more volatile, potentially falling near to zero in the windiest…
This data-file tracks 110,000 solar patents filed by geography, by company, by year, since 2000; but particularly in 2019. $299.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Solar patent filings peaked in 2012-13…
This data-file quantifies the energy costs of manufacturing solar panels, based on 10 studies and prior projects. We see the average solar project requiring 5MWH/kW, with a 2.3-year energy payback,…
…the economics for solar is the ability to re-use old panels, in markets that are particularly price sensitive. In the best cases, this could allow zero-cost decommissioning of solar assets…
This data-file quantifies solar trackers’ efficiency improvements. Depending on location, 40-90% of new utility-scale solar plants are being fitted with ‘trackers’ in the early-2020s; constantly re-positioning panels to face the…
…reason is grid bottlenecks. Grid expansions are crucial for wind and solar to continue expanding. $299.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Curtailments occur when wind and solar are capable of generating…
…of silver miners to look at silver pastes for solar module manufacturing. There are 50 companies producing the silver pastes that are screen-printed onto the front of solar modules, and…
…volatility, from a typical facility’s 100 x sub-10-second power drops per day to the +/- 6% annual variations in solar insolation reaching a particular point of the globe. By contrast,…