Energy Efficiency
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AUTHORS:
Mims, Natalie
Bell, Mathias
Doig, Stephen
DOCUMENT ID: 2009-08
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper
This paper explores how effectively the United States has used electricity and compares energy efficiency implementation by state. This paper analyzes state-level electric productivity to determine which states are the most productive with their electricity.
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.
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.
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.
AUTHORS:
Newman, Sam
Doig, Stephen
Hansen, Lena
Lacy, Virginia
DOCUMENT ID: 2009-03
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
This paper discusses common barriers to solar power adoption and techniques for getting around those barriers. The authors explain how to overcome the barriers by saving money at multiple points in the solar value chain.
AUTHORS:
Schewel, Laura
Lacy, Virginia
Bell, Mathias
Fluhrer, Caroline
Maurer, Eric
DOCUMENT ID: 2009-01
YEAR: 2009
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper
This 19-page memo to the Obama administration outlines 17 goals that can reduce U.S. oil use and greenhouse gas emissions each by 50% in 10 years. These policies would also create over three million jobs in the next four years, and earning a profit for the nation in under 25 years.
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.
AUTHORS:
Newman, Sam
Palmintier, Bryan
DOCUMENT ID: E08-06
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Presentation
This presentation shows how to apply a whole-system approach to the energy use in data centers in order to provide 95-99% energy savings. The authors present strategies for saving energy that have been applied effectively to data centers.
AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: E06-08
YEAR: 2006
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article
In this short article, Amory Lovins explains how investing in energy efficiency is good for business.
AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: E05-16
YEAR: 2005
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper
This paper, which was commissioned by the InterAcademy Council, discusses the importance and benefits of considering energy end-use efficiency when making energy economic decisions. Energy end-use efficiency is the concept of providing more desired services per unit of energy consumed.
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