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They really did just stop oil. Fascinating story.

“This pivot did not emerge from ideology—it was built on coercion. The 2015 Indian fuel blockade, masked as constitutional concern, exposed Nepal’s dependence. Their leaders faced a brutal reality check…”

Battery capacity nearly four times gas!

The Surface Area Required to Power California with 100% Renewable Energy - Land Art Generator click on the image above to access the full-size PDF California has enacted an ambitious carbon reduction policy to bring emissions down to 40% below 1990 levels by the year 2030. We decided to take a...

At least there is plenty of land and sunshine. I made this back in 2016. For seasonal variations I assumed mostly H2 at the time (calling it solar fuel) weighing that almost as heavily as PV. Interesting to compare 100% renewable energy landscape areas with oil landscapes (black square).

You are crushing my rainbow Dan. 😀 More wind, green hydrogen storage, thermal storage, transmission, demand response, VPPs, DERs, and maybe even some compressed air? We got this!

2025 Active California ISO Generation Interconnection Queue Requests with daily data updates — Interconnection.fyi Live tracking of Generation interconnection queue requests across ISOs and utilities. Learn what types of power generation projects are being proposed, where, and how long they take to get approved. D...

This says 47 GW but not sure how accurate that is. If so, then it is really close!

I’d guess about 50 additional GW is needed but I’m not sure what is presently in the queue with a likelihood of being operational by 2030. Probably about half that?

California electricity generation by source BkWh. Historic trend in grey and blue from 2020 to 2025 and wild speculation in green from 2026 to 2030 shows gas peaking in 2021 and going to near zero in 2030.

Perhaps you missed my wild speculation bars in green, but I have about as little patience as gas company shareholders have profit motive.

It’s safe to say sociotropic aesthetic judgments are one of many subsets or tactical manifestations of NIMBYism.

Norway’s paradox: spending billions in oil profits to preserve forests PARIS – Beyond being the host country from which the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each year, it’s fair to say that Norway doesn’t occupy a prominent place on the world stage, nor often make global new...

It seems not much has changed in ten years except the level of skepticism of such schemes was higher in 2015.

The good news is—if the financing can be put in place to wean importers off their imports by building replacement cleantech—the transition entirely pays for itself over time since the feedstocks are free.

Environment at a Glance: Netherlands Environment at a Glance Country Notes feature selected environmental indicators, including a few indicators on countries’ socio-economic context to facilitate interpretation. They show the progress th...

Slight correction. While it exports fossil fuels The Netherlands is still a net importer.

3 in 4 People Worldwide Rely on Imported Fossil Fuels Key Takeaways Three-quarters of the world’s population live in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels. Imports meet over two-thirds of ener…

About 75% of the world’s population lives in countries that rely on fossil fuel imports from other countries, according to 2022 IEA data.

Colombia and The Netherlands Announce First International Conference for Fossil Fuel Phase Out — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

It is also promising that the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels was announced by two exporting countries (both are still exporting coal even).

Fiji's Story of Energy is Just Being Written - Land Art Generator How can Fiji transition to 100% clean energy? Fiji’s 20-year National Development Plan calls for all power to be generated from renewable sources by 2030 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Lik...

I’m not at all saying it will be easy, but the nations calling for phase out of fossil fuels are in many cases fossil fuel importers. If they all decarbonize rapidly together the roadmap gets executed whether petroleum exporting counties like it or not.

Why doesn’t the EIA have access to DER data? Other agencies can tell you how many bananas were purchased by zip code. OK maybe that is an exaggeration but it’s not like it is impossible to track.

More recent articles cite $10 million per year in revenue but the 2014 article talks about $20 million. I assume this comes down to the decline in production over the decade.

They needed the money in 2014.

To be fair they do have a 3 WM ground mount array and are expanding to 7 MW soon. Still it’s probably not enough to offset the scope three emissions of the gas they frack on site. Could have easily doubled their solar capacity MW with that roof.

Aerial photo of the new PIT terminal with a glorious white roof devoid of any solar panels.

Since the airport makes about $10 million per year from fracking concessions on its property I would have thought solar panels on the new terminal roof would have provided a nice balance. No luck.

It’a just a shiny white floor but I’m sure I will have dreams tonight of ice-skating to my gate.

Interior of Pittsburgh International Airport. Stark white floor contrasts with a swooping wooden canopy supported by red tree-like columns. Deep blue sky can be seen through the windows at the last light after sundown.

Interior of Pittsburgh International Airport. Stark white floor contrasts with a swooping wooden canopy supported by red tree-like columns. Deep blue sky can be seen through the windows at the last light after sundown.

Now that Pittsburgh has a shiny new $1.7 billion airport terminal, it’s time to connect it to downtown by train.

New Brattle Report Finds Beneficial Electrification Delivers Billions in Savings to US Households Along with Significant Emissions Reductions - Brattle Harnessing the benefits of electric technology over the last decade saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone and prevented more than

"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone."

"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."

“How to Power a 2.2 GW A.I. Data Center with Solar Wind & Batteries Alone,” an information graphic by the Land Art Generator Initiative.

In reality, we have a mix of clean generation and storage options on an interconnected network of grids. This study shows that if you want to power an always-on data center with behind the meter renewables, you could do it. You just need about 22 times the land area of the data center parcel itself.

That is because the variability of solar and wind mean we need to build more than 2.2 GW of renewable energy along with batteries if we want to supply 24/7/365 power to meet that constant load. This experiment assumes nearly 100% demand from the data center and little grid reliance for backup.

Honeysuckle solar project in Indiana | Lightsource bp USA Learn more about Lightsource bp's Honeysuckle Solar farm project in St. Joseph County, Indiana.

The nearby Honeysuckle Solar Project is a 188 MW solar farm developed by Lightsource bp and installed by Inovateus Solar in 2024. To supply the solar portion of Rainier’s clean-energy needs, we’d need the equivalent of 34 Honeysuckle-sized projects.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

Project Rainier will be nearly as large as the entire Amazon data center fleet that existed in 2024, but will likely only make up about 20% of Amazon’s total data center capacity in 2028. By then, Amazon’s total fleet will be consuming electricity on the scale of the entire state of Indiana.

Powering Data Centers with Solar, Wind, and Batteries - Land Art Generator How to Power a 2.2 GW A.I. Data Center with Solar Wind & Batteries Alone There are many ways to power a data center. One of our favorites is the Homegrown Energy proposal by Rewiring America. But if w...

Just in time for holiday reading, here is the latest energy landscape study from LAGI. With the rise of hyperscale data centers, we thought it would be interesting to look at how much land area would be required to power Amazon's 2.2 GW Project Rainier data center in Indiana.

A look at what is possible.
Could California be done with gas electricity by 2030? The rapid acceleration of battery storage systems seems to point in that direction.

People of many linguistic cultures can read written English. Being able to read the language does not make you a scholar of Jonathan Swift. I don’t know if there is anything to this idea. I’m just looking to understand why many satirical posts might be understood literally by a large audience.

Meme where boy places stick in his bike’s front wheel spokes and then crashes.

This comes to mind.