A $125,000 Snow Machine Is the Latest Toy of the Superrich https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-29/tucker-sno-cats-are-the-latest-toys-of-the-superrich
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Friday, December 29, 2017
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
The Year in Money 2017 - Bloomberg
The Year in Money 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-year-in-money/
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
The Major Changes in the New Republican Tax Code - Bloomberg
The Major Changes in the New Republican Tax Code https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-republican-tax-proposal/
Friday, December 22, 2017
AP Finds Climate Change Risk For 327 Toxic Superfund Sites
Trump's EPA Delays 3 Proposed Bans On Toxic Chemicals
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Trump Orders Boost In Production Of Critical Minerals
Of course the upside of being able to declare that you can no longer rely on global markets is that you get to mine and drill, baby drill on the basis of national security concerns
UN General Assembly votes to condemn Trump's Jerusalem decision - CNNPolitics
A totally Trump threat followed by a totally Trump reaction when anyone stands up to his threats.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Virgin Hyperloop One Just Broke Its Speed Record
A Sweeping Tax Plan Whose Promises Face Widespread Doubts
Zinke: US Reliance On Foreign Minerals A Security Risk - a direct outcome of a protectionist policy is that you cant rely on global trading partners you have pissed off.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
The Fundamental Architecture of Energy Networks is Evolving
As you have all heard me say (probably to excess) utility networks are going to a redundant ring architecture on the long haul and metro rings and mesh in the local, mirroring advanced telecom networks and distributed generation and storage nodes will look just like an Internet for electrons instead of digital bits.
I was very happy to see that this guy agrees:
“We have a system which is energy-inefficient because it was never designed to be efficient,” said Richard L. Kauffman, the state’s so-called energy czar, who is leading its plans to reimagine the power grid. ”It’s like a
mainframe computer in the age of cloud computing”, he added, “and with climate change, the state has to “rethink that basic architecture.”
SOURCE, 2017 New York Times: Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy & Finance for New York (Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo),
Chair of the NYSERDA Board in 2017 New York Times.
Monday, December 18, 2017
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Wisconsin Foxconn Plant May Get $140M Electricity Project
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Mining To Resume At Nuke Waste Dump For First Time Since Leak
See timeline and cost overruns from one incident at the place we bury tools and gloves used in the nuke industry.
Monday, December 11, 2017
Bitcoin's First 24 Hours on Wall Street Feed Euphoria and Doubts
The final quote in this article is the best bottom line conclusion on this run-up i have seen.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Bitcoin Futures Trading Opening Brings Crypto to Wall Street
Bitcoin Futures Trading Opening Brings Crypto to Wall Street https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-10/bitcoin-futures-trading-opens-bringing-crypto-to-wall-street
Friday, December 8, 2017
Thursday, December 7, 2017
South Dakota Wind Blade Manufacturing Plant Announces Closure
More fallout from the fossil heads attack on the PTC? If we can't manufacture something as big and difficult to transport from afar as turbine blades, what makes anyone think we can level the playing field with Asia on solar panels by making them more expensive via tariffs?
Direct Renewable PPAs in Telecom and IT Sectors by Year - 2008 to Feb 2017
PPAs are becoming the primary mechanism corporations use to procure large amounts of clean power and add new renewable energy to the grid. Looking at aggregate renewable PPA deals signed by commercial, industrial, and institutional (C&I) organizations, it is clear that Tech and Telecom sectors have been major players; in 2015, 2/3 of non-utility renewable energy PPAs were executed by IT companies.
Monty Bannerman
ArcStar Energy
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GE Cuts 12K Power Jobs As Demand, Renewables Skew Market
First Siemens gas unit, now GE. Anyone relying on a belief that traditional utility networks and systems are not entering full technology disruption mode is heading toward a sunset.
The Mindshift Needed for Utility-integrated Energy Storage
Good article captures the opportunity, some core remaining architecture and economic model challenges and why the control and management software space is hot with acquistions.
Re: Hydrogen-Powered Trains To Run On German Rails In 2021
Hi Monty, very interesting, We have not heard from Hydrogenics??
SV
On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Monty Bannerman <mbannerman@arcstarenergy.com> wrote:
Train corridors in and out of NY are already powered by electricity. Adding fuel cell generation along the ROWs could accomplish same without having to carry and refuel pressurized fuel tanks on board the rolling stock.https://www.mbtmag.com/news/2017/11/hydrogen-powered-trains-run-german-rails-2021?cmpid=verticalcontent&__hstc=97553472.86dd36bfe76874bc17b7ae13acad081e.1489096093739.1512593742258.1512598911670.156&__hssc=97553472.1.1512598911670&__hsfp=3986090372
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Biggest U.S. Nuclear Owner Exelon Invests in Storage Startup
Biggest U.S. Nuclear Owner Exelon Invests in Storage Startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/biggest-u-s-nuclear-owner-exelon-investing-in-storage-startup
Hydrogen-Powered Trains To Run On German Rails In 2021
Train corridors in and out of NY are already powered by electricity. Adding fuel cell generation along the ROWs could accomplish same without having to carry and refuel pressurized fuel tanks on board the rolling stock.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
How Trump Did the Impossible: Getting Solar and Oil Lobbyists to Unite
How Trump Did the Impossible: Getting Solar and Oil Lobbyists to Unite https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-12-05/how-trump-did-the-impossible-got-solar-oil-lobbyists-to-unite
Fwd: Tax bill will slow solar progress. SPEAK OUT NOW!
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From: "Adam Browning -- Vote Solar" <adam@votesolar.org>
Date: Dec 5, 2017 9:49 AM
Subject: Tax bill will slow solar progress. ACT NOW!
To: "Monty Bannerman" <mbannerman@arcstarenergy.com>
Cc:
From: "Adam Browning -- Vote Solar" <adam@votesolar.org>
Date: Dec 5, 2017 9:49 AM
Subject: Tax bill will slow solar progress. ACT NOW!
To: "Monty Bannerman" <mbannerman@arcstarenergy.com>
Cc:
Monty,
The tax bill that the Senate passed late Friday night will have huge ramifications for America's future, and renewables are no exception.The tax bill was passed with a provision that would undermine renewable investments (link), significantly harming America's ability to keep repowering the country with clean, low-cost solar. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of solar and wind workers whose livelihoods are at stake.House members and senators are now reconciling differences between the two versions of the bill. There is a lot at stake, including America's solar and wind job-creating industries.Call your lawmakers to say NO to a tax plan that is bad for solar energy, bad for the local jobs it's creating, and bad for the healthier future it's building.Dial 202-224-3121 to be patched through to your representative. Once you tell them that you oppose the tax plan and its impact on renewables, hang up and dial again to send both of your senators the same message.Your elected officials work for you, the American people - and the vast majority of Americans support clean energy progress. Don't let Congress take that away.Onward,Adam + the Vote Solar teamP.S. Already make the called? Forward this action alert to friends, family, and colleagues. Every voice counts.
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Monday, December 4, 2017
BlackRock and Vanguard Are Less Than a Decade Away From Managing $20 Trillion
BlackRock and Vanguard Are Less Than a Decade Away From Managing $20 Trillion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-04/blackrock-and-vanguard-s-20-trillion-future-is-closer-than-you-think
What Was Once Hailed as First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Is No More
What Was Once Hailed as First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Is No More https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/cape-wind-developer-terminates-project-opposed-by-kennedys-koch
America Crowns a New Pollution King
America Crowns a New Pollution King https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/america-crowns-a-new-pollution-king
Friday, December 1, 2017
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Goldman Warns That Market Valuations Are at Their Highest Since 1900
Goldman Warns That Market Valuations Are at Their Highest Since 1900 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/goldman-warns-highest-valuations-since-1900-mean-pain-is-coming
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Elon Musk's Giant Battery Set for Testing in South Australia
Elon Musk's Giant Battery Set for Testing in South Australia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-22/elon-musk-s-giant-battery-set-for-testing-in-south-australia
Trump Rejects Icahn-Backed Bid to Change Biofuel Mandate - Corn Lobby Cheers
Trump Rejects Icahn-Backed Bid to Change Biofuel Mandate https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-22/icahn-backed-bid-to-change-biofuel-mandate-rejected-by-trump
Global Energy Storage Market Growth Projection - BNEF
Source: BNEF, November 2017
Monty Bannerman
ArcStar Energy
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www.arcstarenergy.com
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Mexico Releases Auction Results!
Mexico announced preliminary results of energy auction
20.11.2017: The National Energy Control Center (CENACE) and the Mexico’s Department of Energy (SENER) announced preliminary results of the third long-term energy auction. According to the Mexican government, a total of 46 bids were submitted for 5.49 TWh, out of which 16 bids were preliminarily selected. According to Mercom Capital Group, a record low tariff of $0.0177 per kWh was quoted by Enel Green Power for supplying a total of 883,696 MWh of power annually across two projects representing a capacity of approximately 290 MW.
The recent bids represent a decline of nearly 35 percent, from the lowest bid quoted in Mexico's second energy auction conducted in October last year. Solar may account for around 55.35 percent of contracted power with 3 TWh and 58.31 percent of clean energy certificates. Overall, the auction could award contracts for 5.49 TWh and 5.95 million clean energy certificates, says CENACE.
The results and the official winning bids and ruling will be released by SENER and CENACE on November 22.
Monty Bannerman
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Monday, November 20, 2017
AP Mobile: Warming to make thunderstorms larger and more frequent
Warming to make thunderstorms larger and more frequent: https://apnews.com/c1ef302f0e844806817aedbe12fa32e7
Shared via AP Mobile. Download the app now:
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
NY State PSC Regulatory Mandate on Energy Storage Due by December 2017
https://www.law360.com/articles/950816/how-new-york-state-is-making-energy-storage-a-priority
Monty Bannerman
ArcStar Energy
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’
Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is 'Shot Heard Around the World' https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-17/norway-idea-to-exit-oil-stocks-is-shot-heard-around-the-world
Thursday, November 16, 2017
GE Engineer's Dream
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GE's huge 3D metal printer makes aircraft parts // Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/11/16/ge-s-huge-3d-metal-printer-makes-aircraft-parts/
GE has unveiled its previously-announced 3D metal printer, suitable for making aircraft parts. At the manufacturing trade show formnext in Germany, the GE Additive team revealed the as-yet-unnamed machine, demonstrating its ability to print parts as large as 1 meter in diameter directly from a computer file. Using additive manufacturing technology, the machine fuses together thin layers of metal powder with a 1-kilowatt laser.
The machine has the potential to build even larger parts, too, thanks to its scalable nature, plus its design can be configured to add more lasers if required. Mohammad Ehteshami, part of GE's Project ATLAS team (Additive Technology Large Area System), said it had already been used to print a jet combustor liner. "It can also be applicable for manufacturers in the automotive, power and space industries," he added.
The printer, which is still in beta stage, draws on additive manufacturing technology which is already being used by several GE businesses. GE Aviation is building the Advanced Turboprop, a commercial aircraft engine made largely of 3D parts. Using the technology designers reduced 855 separate parts down to just 12. According to Ehteshami, the machine is "an engineer's dream".
Source: GE
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World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Wants Out of Oil and Gas
World's Biggest Wealth Fund Wants Out of Oil and Gas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/norway-s-1-trillion-wealth-fund-wants-out-of-oil-and-gas-stocks
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
U.S. to Dominate Oil Markets After Biggest Boom in World History
U.S. to Dominate Oil Markets After Biggest Boom in World History https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/iea-sees-u-s-shale-surge-as-biggest-oil-and-gas-boom-in-history
Monday, November 13, 2017
Boston Dynamics 'new' SpotMini robot ready for a walk
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Boston Dynamics 'new' SpotMini robot looks ready for a walk // Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/11/13/spot-mini-four-legged-boston-dynamics-robot/
Boston Dynamics isn't a part of Google/Alphabet anymore, but that won't stand in the way of new robot videos, like this latest teaser for a revamped version of its dog-like electric SpotMini robot. Described only as the "new SpotMini" it looks sleeker and more production ready than any version we've seen before. There's no creepy manipulator arm mounted on top and it's covered in plastic, revealing only a set of 3D vision cameras on the exterior.
SoftBank has started rolling out robots in Japan, and it can't be too long before we see its latest acquisition deliver something for the US. Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert said, "I happen to believe that robotics will be bigger than the Internet" at a conference in October, and this could be the company's first step towards making that happen.
Source: Boston Dynamics (YouTube), Boston Dynamics
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
Big Insurers Brace for Perilous Future as Climate Risks Escalate
Big Insurers Brace for Perilous Future as Climate Risks Escalate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-13/big-insurers-brace-for-perilous-future-as-climate-risks-escalate
Friday, November 10, 2017
BBC News: Apec summit: Trump and Xi offer competing visions for trade
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
Apec summit: Trump and Xi offer competing visions for trade - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41937426
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Apec summit: Trump and Xi offer competing visions for trade - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41937426
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What Trump's Odd Comment on China Trade Reveals
What Trump's Odd Comment on China Trade Reveals https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-10/what-trump-s-odd-comment-on-china-trade-reveals
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar powered by supercapacitors
Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-07/lamborghini-terzo-millennio-concept-self-healing-electric-supercar
GOP Senators Say Wind Tax Credit Is Safe in Their Tax Overhaul
GOP Senators Say Wind Tax Credit Is Safe in Their Tax Overhaul https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-07/gop-senators-say-wind-tax-credit-is-safe-in-their-tax-overhaul
Multinationals Scurry to Defuse House Tax Bill’s ‘Atomic Bomb’
Multinationals Scurry to Defuse House Tax Bill's 'Atomic Bomb' https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-07/multinationals-scurry-to-defuse-house-tax-bill-s-atomic-bomb
Monday, November 6, 2017
Trump Xi: Property man meets career communist
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
Trump Xi: Property man meets career communist - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-41882084
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Trump Xi: Property man meets career communist - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-41882084
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Trump Is Leaving Japan Empty-Handed on Trade
Trump Is Leaving Japan Empty-Handed on Trade https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-06/trump-leaves-empty-handed-on-trade-as-close-friend-abe-digs-in
How McConnell May Have Inadvertently Undercut the Coal Industry and Perry's "not very clever" Coal Order
How McConnell May Have Inadvertently Undercut the Coal Industry https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-06/mcconnell-s-quick-action-on-energy-picks-may-imperil-coal-rescue
Friday, November 3, 2017
What’s the Utility Repair Cost When Two Big Hurricanes Hit the Power Grid? $2.5 Billion
What's the Cost When Two Big Hurricanes Hit the Power Grid? $2.5 Billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/what-s-the-cost-of-two-hurricanes-on-a-power-grid-2-5-billion
2015 US Average Annual Number and Duration of Power Outages - Per Customer
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Electric Power Industry Report (EIA-861) 2015
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
The World's Tiniest Power Market Will Leverage Big Data to Sell Solar - Bloomberg
Game-changing technology for microgrids. Happening where?
US Workers' Productivity Jumps 3 Percent In Third Quarter
Both wage and productivity growth finally showing simutaneous gains.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Americans Are Officially Freaking Out about Trump
Americans Are Officially Freaking Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-01/americans-are-officially-freaking-out
Sweden Pays for Trump Whistle-Blower to Attend UN Climate Talks
Sweden Pays for Trump Whistle-Blower to Attend UN Climate Talks https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-11-01/sweden-pays-for-trump-whistle-blower-to-attend-un-climate-talks
Canada signs flurry of Small Modular Reactor contracts in Bid to become leader in this technology with no proven market | Nuclear Energy Insider
Placing more reactors closer to load centers is no slam dunk even if it solves the cost and time overrun problem for nukes.
WElink Energy to start construction of 221 MW PV plant in Portugal | photon.info
Once adjusted to DC watts, below $1 per.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Monday, October 30, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Puerto Rico contract controversy
Here's What's In That $300 Million Whitefish Contract http://n.pr/2yPGy2B
Friday, October 27, 2017
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
BBC News: Deutsche to pay $220m over Libor probe
Fines in lieu of criminal prosecutions still rolling in from the financial crash
Deutsche to pay $220m over Libor probe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41753288
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E.ON Texas wind battery gains point to expanding storage openings | New Energy Update
Note that even big wind, which needs and benefits more from time-shifting and frequency regulation than solar and an open market like Texas, the message on batteries is still "getting there" on the economics and needing regulatory help (good luck on that from Trump and Perry).
US solar boom set to make PV with storage cost competitive by 2020 | New Energy Update
The predictions referenced in this article are from NREL, so should be considered solid as far as market data and forecasts go. If you read between the lines and in the context of what we are doing with fuel cells, you will likely conclude that even when paired with a zero fuel/low-cost source of energy to charge them, and focus only on discharging them for maximum demand/rate arbitrage, batteries are still very much in early adoption phase, heading to a successful business and investment model, but they are no there today. The Cost/Benefit numbers show that IRRs actually degrade very substantially when batteries are added to a solar investment. For this and a number of other reasons in addition to their basic economics (reliability, manageability, bankability etc), if NY utilities are looking for immediate and proven demand relief solutions that they can implement at will, conform to NWA/REV/REC programs will still be viably operating over long contract periods, only FC’s and solar fit those criteria today. Let’s all hope their award decision is based on objective facts and not the sizzle and future potential of energy storage.
We will likely want to increasingly bring storage into market opportunity assessments, but for now, only if a battery developer/operator is capable of mitigating the risks and being financeable.
Fwd: Tesla and Vestas Partner in $160 Million Australian Project - Renewable Energy World
To: Monty Bannerman <mbannerman@arcstarenergy.com>
Tesla and Vestas Partner in $160 Million Australian Project
October 19, 2017
A novel $160 million renewable energy project combining wind, solar and storage technologies reached financial close.
Tesla Inc. will supply batteries and Vestas Wind Systems A/S will supply turbines for the first phase of the Kennedy Energy Park, according to a Thursday statement on the website of project co-developer WindLab Ltd. The project is located in Queensland Australia and will be financed by the Clean Energy Finance Corp. and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
The 60.2 megawatt development will be the first to connect the three renewable power technologies to the Australian grid through a single connection point, once it is completed by the end of 2018, according to the statement. The combination will help provide reliable supplies of electricity, overcoming one of the biggest downsides to intermittent renewable energy generation technologies.
Don't Miss: Can Storage Expand Wind's Share of the Energy Mix?
"Hybrid solutions combining wind, solar and storage hold a huge potential for Australia," said Clive Turton, President of Vestas Asia Pacific. The first phase could lead to a larger 1.2-gigawatt energy park in the region.
The project in Flinders Shire, in north-central Queensland, will deploy 12 of Vestas's V136-3.6 MW wind turbines as well as 15 megawatts of solar panel capacity and a 4 megawatt-hour Tesla lithium ion battery, all managed by Vestas' control system.
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Pegging the All-In, Installed Cost of a Tesla Powerwall 2
Then Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened the doors to what has turned out to be a vast, new global retail market for smartphones and mobile/wireless telecommunications when he introduced the first touchscreen iPhone to the world in January 2007.Project equity will be provided equally by developers Windlab and Eurus Energy Holdings Corp, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation will provide $93.5 million of debt finance on a long-tenured, non-recourse basis, according to the statement. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will also provide $18 million in the form of a subordinated refundable grant, it said.
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Lead image: Vestas Turbine. Credit Pixabay.
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