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Energy and Resources - Electricity 49 Items
Journal or Magazine Article, 2012
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2012-01_FarewellToFossilFuels
In this article published in
Foreign Affairs, Amory Lovins describes a U.S. transition from fossil fuels--a blueprint detailed in
Reinventing Fire-- that requires pursuing transformational change in automotive efficiency, design of buildings and factories, and the electric system.
Report or White Paper, 2011
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2011-14_RFelectricitysectormethodology
This document provides RMI's methodology for the analysis of the electricity sector in
Reinventing Fire.
Report or White Paper, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2010-23_CubaElectricity
Cuba's decrepit electricity grid suffered 188 days of significant blackouts in 2004, 224 in 2005, 3 in 2006, and 0 in 2007. This dramatic improvement was due to a nationwide efficiency program, a crash program of switching to a majority of distributed generation, and reorganizing grid architecture around islandable netted microgrids. This success could be instructive for failing grids like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2010-08_RenewablesMicropowerElectricityLandscape
This article, published in RMI's Spring 2010
Solutions Journal, describes micropower's acceleration in taking over the global market long dominated by central thermal stations. This conclusion is supported by RMI's Micropower Database
(available to download), which recalculates cogeneration capacity and output from primary data sources.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2010-04_keepingthelightson
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.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E09-06_FreakonomicsBlog
Amory Lovins wrote this piece as an invited blog for the
New York Times "Freakonomics" column in 2009. In it, he argues for the use of distributed generation and "micropower" instead of big, central power plants.
Report or White Paper, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-08_AssessingElectricProductivityGap
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.
Conference Proceedings, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-18_IndustrialElectricProductivity
There is an enormous gap in the electric productivity of the nation. Increasing industrial electric productivity is a significant near-term opportunity that can reduce electricity costs, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of output, and increase profits. RMI believes that increasing industrial electric productivity is an untapped source of value, and is important to the longevity of industry in the United States.
Presentation, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-15_NuclearPowersCompetitiveLandscape
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.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-03_AcceleratingSolarPowerAdoption
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.