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Carbon emissions: Why can’t Texas be more like Germany?

Posted on 05/06/2018 by Ross Baldick

Energiewende, German for “energy transition,” was the theme of the “Texas-Germany Bilateral Dialogue on Challenges and Opportunities in the Electricity Market” conference held in Austin in late February. The conference was organized by the German American Chambers of Commerce and … Continue reading →

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How much storage is even feasible?

Posted on 11/03/2016 by Ross Baldick

In response to my last post, about the challenges of wind integration, a reader asked: “Is building storage of this scale even feasible?” If you had asked me in 2000, “Could wind get to 18GW wind in ERCOT by 2016?” … Continue reading →

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ERCOT: meeting the challenges of wind integration

Posted on 10/26/2016 by Ross Baldick

Texas has, by far, the highest penetration of wind among the three main US interconnections (Eastern, Western, and Texas), and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has met the challenges of wind integration. ERCOT is set to get even … Continue reading →

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Renewables research collaboration in Chile

Posted on 06/26/2016 by Ross Baldick

In May I had the pleasure of visiting colleagues at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. Like Texas, Chile is moving toward ever higher levels of renewable power, ours in wind, theirs … Continue reading →

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