Solar costs: a breakdown over time?
…price databases. 60% of solar cost deflation in the past decade has come from the scale-up to mass manufacturing: as solar installations scaled up by 7x to well over 200GW…
Permian CO2-EOR: pushing the boundary?
…incremental recovery – even at the small core plug scale – suggests the significant potential for multiple HnP EOR cycles for a future unconventional EOR project design”. (5) Huge Recovery…
Geothermal energy: costs and economics?
…the economics of the geothermal power projects we have tabulated is that they are all small-scale pilots, with an average size of just 4MWe. We plot a line of best…
Battery degradation: causes, effects & implications?
What causes battery degradation? This 14-page note offers five rules of thumb to maximize the longevity of lithium-ion batteries, in grid-scale storage and electric vehicles. The data suggest hidden upside…
Bioleaching: case studies and examples?
…over 20 examples. The first full-scale commercial success was 1982, with an acceleration in the 1990s. The median average size is small, at 20kTpa. But there are also world-scale operations…
Pumped hydro: generation profile?
…discharging, but small quantities of charging, such as May-2021 or November-2022, then we can see up to 40-hours of cumulative discharging. This is about 10x longer than a lithium ion…
Grid-forming inverters: islands in the sun?
The grid-forming inverter market may soon inflect from $1bn to $15-20bn pa, to underpin most grid-scale batteries, and 20-40% of incremental solar and wind. This 11-page report finds that grid-forming…
Good Batteries vs Bad Batteries?
…in the world’s quest for cleaner energy. Electric Vehicles are most favoured, while grid-scale hydrogen is questioned. [restrict] As renewable energy ramps up into the global energy mix (chart below,…
The green hydrogen economy: a summary?
…in order for hydrogen to scale up, it would need to be transported, like other commodities. Transporting hydrogen may be more challenging than any other commodity ever commercialised in the…
Global average temperature data?
…small but potentially significant warming effect”, per NASA. But the largest component of the warming is attributed to rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere, which reached 414 ppm. Overall,…