The Era of Energy Disruption: How Four Key Drivers Are Reshaping Global Energy
(Based on insights from a TED Talk:Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption| Gerard Reid The energy landscape is transforming at an unprecedented pace, driven by four powerful forces: solar power, battery technology, energy intelligence, and China’s strategic...
Perspective: Change Comes Fast!
Photo by NASA on Unsplash The following by environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben appeared in an article titled “The End of Nature: The rise of greenhouse gases and our warming earth.” published in September 3, 1989 in The New Yorker: “Forever we have read...
DER: The Case for Distributed Energy Resources
We’ve all seen the dramatic pictures of downed energy infrastructure as pictured in this article, “Entergy Says 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Knocked Out by Hurricane Ida” from the Wall Street Journal Replacing or repairing 2000 miles of downed grid infrastructure...
Why You Won’t Have to Suffer to Save the Planet
Photo By: Photo by Justin Lim from UnsplashCoauthor: Paige Gehringer Will We Need to Drastically Change Our Lives to Save the Planet? Currently, there are numerous questions regarding what must be done to save our planet. Will we have to completely eliminate...
Key Lesson from Texas: Grid Structure Matters!
The power disaster unfolding in Texas this week is strong evidence that the structure or our power grids matters! So do the sources of electricity that we transmit on our grids. This is why CCE is focusing on issues like vehicle-to-grid (V2G). At CCE we believe...
The Center for Community Energy
www.centerforcommunityenergy.org – a California 501(c)3