Shale oil: fractured forecasts?
…trajectories” and the most likely reason we would be wrong would be because shale’s smooth production growth would be disrupted by “periodic oil price volatility”. At the time we envisaged…
Solar power: decline rates?
This data-file tabulates the ‘decline rates’ of 3,200 US solar power plants, which have reported data to the US EIA, using in-house web-scraping and aggregation software. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
Solar power: what challenges?
Solar panel costs have been deflating at a rate of c20% per annum as the industry scales up into manufacturing mode. The IEA recently stated solar could thus provide the…
Array Technologies: solar tracking breakthrough?
Array Technologies IPO-ed in October-2020, listing on NASDAQ. It manufactures solar tracking systems, supporting 25% of US solar modules installed to date, and 22GW of projects globally. Its systems can…
Powin: grid-scale battery breakthrough?
…a 20-year life. Context for grid-scale batteries Grid-scale batteries are growing increasingly important, especially in regions with high renewables penetrations, to backstop the short-term volatility of solar and short-term volatility…
California electricity prices by hour?
…as 30% if residential/rooftop solar is also included (EIA data here). Hence the purpose of this data-file is to quantify the hour-by-hour volatility of power prices in a solar-heavy power…
Solar Use within the Oil Industry?
…the project details. Leading examples include the use of concentrated solar for steam-EOR in Oman and California, Solar PV in the Permian, and leading efforts from specific companies: such as…
Power functions: how would gas shortages change the cost curve?
…renewable assets, their underlying components, and power-electronics companies (some examples are profiled below). However, it is not necessarily great news for consumers, fore-suffering higher energy prices. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/variable-frequency-drives-leading-companies/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/solar-inverters-products-costs-and-companies/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/shoals-solar-electronic-breakthrough/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/siemens-gamesa-giant-wind-turbine-breakthroughs/…
SolarEdge: solar-electronics breakthrough?
SolarEdge is a ‘photovoltaics company’ which specializes in the power-electronics needed to use solar energy in practical power systems. The company was founded in 2006. Its headquarters are in Israel….
Thermoelectric generation: is it the next solar?
Solar semiconductors have changed the world, converting light into clean electricity. Hence can thermoelectric semiconductors follow the same path, converting heat into electricity with no moving parts? This 14-page report…