Energy and Climate Change

Utilities continue to provide reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean electricity around the clock to customers, all the while tackling new disruptions such as integrating new renewable power resources and optimizing the power grid for operational efficiency with an evolving distribution grid.

Through its newly launched website, http://incubatenergy.org, networking opportunities, and identifying industry best practices, the network provides nationwide coordination that addresses the unique challenges facing energy start-ups.

In just a few years, CO2 levels will be above this threshold permanently.

Sonoma Clean Power unveiled a plan to install a 12.5-megawatt solar farm on floating dock, providing enough electricity to power 3,000 homes.

The temperature of the Boiling River in Yellowstone National Park has been increasing slightly since last August.

"This is an area in which we are extremely vulnerable. It’s a real problem. What if the power doesn’t come back on?"

The San Mateo company typically leases solar arrays to its customers, who then pay monthly rather than buying the equipment outright — a model that helped revolutionize the solar industry.

"The wires that run through every wall look like a nervous system linking all these appliances into a single place," he says. "Except that today we don’t have any intelligence in the center."

If given a relatively cheap and reliable battery to hold the power needed, building off-grid in the country will become commonplace, and even in the city, self powered homes could be a less expensive option than being grid-tied.

Wyoming is outcompeting Montana on wind energy production, and the corresponding public revenue we could be receiving to fund our schools and services.