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Keeping the Lights on While Transforming Electric Utilities
AUTHORS:
Lovins, Amory
Hansen, Lena
DOCUMENT ID: E10-04
YEAR: 2010
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
This article discusses the new electricity paradigm required of electric utilities in the face of climate change, energy security concerns, and disruptive technologies. The new paradigm for utilities is based on energy efficiency, demand response, renewables, energy storage, and distributed generation.
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2010 Micropower Database
AUTHORS:
Cohen, Bennett
Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: 2010-06
YEAR: 2010
DOCUMENT TYPE: Guide
2010 Edition: The purpose of the micropower database is to present a clear, rigorous, and independent assessment of the global capacity and electrical output of micropower (all renewables, except large hydro, and cogeneration), showing its development over time and documenting all data and assumptions. With minor exceptions, this information is based on bottom-up, transaction-by-transaction equipment counts reported by the relevant suppliers and operators, cross-checked against assessments by reputable governmental and intergovernmental technical agencies. For most technologies, historic data from 1990 through 2008 or 2009 is available, as well as forecasts through 2013. Available information includes global annual capacity additions and output, global cumulative capacity, and capacity factor. The Micropower Database Methodology is also included here. The 2008 Micropower Database is also available.
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Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
AUTHORS:
Lovins, Amory
Sheikh, Imran
Markevich, Alex
DOCUMENT ID: E09-01
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper
This semi-technical article, summarizing a detailed and documented technical paper (see "The Nuclear Illusion" (2008)), compares the cost, climate protection potential, reliability, financial risk, market success, deployment speed, and energy contribution of new nuclear power with those of its low- or no-carbon competitors.
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Nuclear Power's Competitive Landscape
AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: 2009-15
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Presentation
A hotly debated topic, the present and future state of nuclear power and its competitors are the subject of this presentation by Amory Lovins at RMI2009. This presentation was part of a plenary debate with Robert Rosner entitled, "Nuclear: Fix or Folly?". The accompanying video of the entire debate is available at RMI's Video page.
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Getting Off Oil: Recent Leaps and Next Steps
AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: E08-02
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
This article is a 2008 update on the progress of RMI's 2005 effort to implement Winning the Oil Endgame. In this article, Amory Lovins provides an update on recent progress in many of the sectors targeted in Winning the Oil Endgame. He also describes the steps required to implement the strategy fully in the auto industry.
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Forget Nuclear
AUTHORS:
Lovins, Amory
Sheikh, Imran
Markevich, Alex
DOCUMENT ID: E08-04
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
This article compares the cost, climate protection potential, reliability, financial risk, market success, deployment speed, and energy contribution of new nuclear power with those of its low- or no-carbon competitors.
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2008 Micropower Database: How Distributed Renewables and Cogeneration are Beating Nuclear Power Stations — Supporting Data, Methodology, and Graphs
AUTHORS:
Lovins, Amory
Sheikh, Imran
DOCUMENT ID: E05-04
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Guide
2008 Edition: The purpose of the micropower database is to present a clear, rigorous, and independent assessment of the global capacity and electrical output of micropower (all renewables, except large hydro, and cogeneration), showing its development over time and documenting all data and assumptions. With minor exceptions, this information is based on bottom-up, transaction-by-transaction equipment counts reported by the relevant suppliers and operators, cross-checked against assessments by reputable governmental and intergovernmental technical agencies. For most technologies, historic data from 1990 through 2005 or 2006 is available, as well as forecasts through 2010. Available information includes global annual capacity additions and output, global cumulative capacity, and capacity factor. The Micropower Database Methodology is also included here. The 2010 Micropower Database contains updated data.
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Intermittent Renewables in the Next Generation Utility
AUTHORS:
Hansen, Lena
Levine, Jonah
DOCUMENT ID: 2008-22
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Conference Proceedings
This paper, presented at PowerGenRE2008, evaluates the potential reduction in variability of intermittent renewables due to the geographical dispersion of wind resources across large geographic areas.
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Spatial and Temporal Interactions of Solar and Wind Resources in the Next Generation Utility
AUTHORS:
Palmintier, Bryan
Hansen, Lena
Levine, Jonah
DOCUMENT ID: 2008-21
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Conference Proceedings
The “next generation” electric utility must incorporate variable renewable resources, including wind and solar, in much larger quantities than conventionally thought possible. While resource variability presents a challenge, it should be possible to reduce and manage that variability by geographically distributing renewables, combining them with different renewables, and having more dynamic control of electric loads. This study shows that interconnecting individual solar generation sites into geographically diverse arrays can reduce power output variability, and that including solar generation sites in arrays of geographically diverse wind sites can further reduce the total variability beyond what is
possible for either resource type alone. Specifically, optimized portfolios offer an average decrease in variability of 55% below the average of all individual sites. Finally, it was observed that, in the modeled system, only a small subset of the potential sites in an interconnected array need to be included to achieve these variability reductions.
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Spatial and Temporal Interactions of Wind and Solar in the Next Generation Utility: Expanded Analysis
AUTHORS:
Traube, Josh
Hansen, Lena
Palmintier, Bryan
Levine, Jonah
DOCUMENT ID: 2008-20
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Conference Proceedings
This paper, originally presented at WINDPOWER 2008, argues that the “next generation” electric utility must incorporate variable renewable resources, including wind and solar, in much larger quantities than conventionally thought possible. This analysis expands previous studies on reducing the variability of renewable resources through optimized geographic distribution.
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