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Let's Build a Global Power Grid" Outstanding proposal from Clark Gellings, a Fellow at the Electric Power Research Institute and an IEEE Life Fellow. This is his second article for IEEE Spectrum. His first, published in 1981, introduced the idea of demand-side management—a now common smart-grid practice that allows electricity customers to manage their own usage. “People thought it was heretical, but the idea eventually took hold,” he says. “I hope that happens with this, too.” More info here.

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November, 2015

11.30.15 What utilities should watch for at the Paris climate talks

11.29.15 Bay Area communities gearing up to create their own power systems

11.29.15 Dubai to make rooftop solar mandatory in 2030

11.28.15 Dubai to spend billions on clean energy push

11.27.15 UN counts climate’s human cost in new report for #COP21

11.27.15 Bill Gates preps biggest clean energy fund 'in history'

11.27.15 New 'invisible' nano-wires hide from the sun for increased solar cell efficiency

11.27.15 What YieldCo Managers Are Saying About the Market Meltdown

11.25.15 Sonnenbatterie Launches Solar-Plus-Storage Storage System for $10,645

11.25.15 MISO, SPP, ERCOT all hit new wind energy records in November

11.25.15 Proposed Oregon offshore wind project too expensive, utilities say

11.25.15 SolarCity leaves TASC, denies split with advocacy partner Sunrun

11.24.15 Church Fights Duke Energy for Third Party Solar Energy Rights

11.24.15 CEOs of 78 major firms call for carbon pricing COP21 deal

11.24.15 Portland General Electric joins CAISO energy imbalance market

11.24.15 Prince Charles points to link between climate change and Syrian conflict

11.24.15 12 charts that show the state of the US clean energy revolution

11.24.15 Despite green outcry, CPUC approves SoCal Edison gas & storage plans

11.23.15 15 Billion Gallons Of Water Could Be Saved By Solar Power In Arizona

11.23.15 China’s State Grid set to snare Australia's TransGrid

11.23.15 How Virtual Power Plants Can Help Replace Dirty Peaker Plants

11.23.15 National Community Solar Partnership: 68 Cities, States, & Businesses To Expand Solar Access

11.22.15 Wind from Britain, solar from the Sahara, geothermal from Iceland

11.22.15 Mercedes Is Proposing A Novel Solution To Meet Energy Storage Demand

11.20.15 Solar net metering is not a subsidy

11.20.15 NY Gov. Cuomo pushes closure of Entergy Indian Point nuclear plant in NRC filings

11.20.15 Toronto utility unveils novel underwater energy storage system

11.20.15 Ohio regulators to probe submetering companies reselling energy in apartments, condos

11.19.15 Failure to Reach Net Metering Deal Could Kill 100MW of Commercial Solar in Mass. Next Year

11.19.15 Morocco Will Soon Become the World's Solar Energy Superpower

11.19.15 How solar will grow through the ITC sunset and beyond

11.19.15 The future of rate design: Why the utility industry may shift away from fixed charges

11.18.15 Proposed wind-energy transmission line hits a roadblock in Iowa

11.18.15 United Illuminating plans 2.2 MW microgrid for Connecticut town

11.18.15 Stanford designs underwater solar cells that turn captured greenhouse gases into fuel

11.18.15 Enphase Aims to Reduce Microinverter Cost by 50% in Two Years

11.18.15 Massachusetts House approves solar "net metering" bill

11.18.15 California’s Chief Utility Regulator: The Future Grid Is All About ‘Distributed Decision-Making’

11.18.15 Solar Stocks Continue to Plummet in a ‘Bizarre Confluence of Contradictory Events’

11.17.15 In California, a Campaign to Take Transmission Charges Out of Distributed Energy

11.17.15 Solving the Conundrum of Community Microgrids

11.17.15 Here’s What It Would Take for Solar Installers to Adapt to a World Without the ITC

11.17.15 Sierra Club's Ameren shareholder resolution seeks 30% renewables by 2030

11.16.15 Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m

11.13.15 Illinois approves Grain Belt Express transmission line

11.12.15 Beyond fixed charges: 'Disruptive Challenges' author charts new utility path

11.11.15 Boulder may build distribution assets to push through municipalization

11.11.15 Feds grant two offshore wind leases off New Jersey coast

11.11.15 Utilities spend $1.6M to influence Michigan energy policy on solar

11.10.15 Germany Could Make Additional $2 Billion By Exporting Electricity

11.10.15 DOE approves $1.2B transmission line for Canadian wind and hydro

11.09.15 Mercedes Second-Use Battery Project Underway In Germany

11.09.15 Investigation Finds World’s Largest Coal Company Misled Public On Climate Change

11.09.15 Empower Energies Announces First-Ever Solar Lease for Businesses in South Carolina

11.08.15 A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free (Wind) Electricity

11.06.15 California solar advocates bring wheelbarrows of petitions to net metering fight

11.06.15 Marijuana grow houses trigger 7 summer outages for Pacific Power

11.06.15 Arizona utility TEP wants to add solar fee, reduce net metering credit

11.06.15 NY attorney general wields powerful weapon in Exxon climate case

11.05.15 Total Renewable Energy Supply in 8 Major Economies to Double by 2030

11.05.15 Could Europe Be Powered by African Solar Energy?

11.05.15 Enphase Microinverter Course Correction Includes Layoffs of 7% of Staff

11.05.15 Solar Buries India/U.S. Nuclear Deal with Lower Energy Costs

11.05.15 How to decarbonize the US energy system, in 14 charts

11.04.15 Oregon ballot initiatives to eliminate coal power by 2030 clear first hurdle

11.03.15 Mercury News: PUC must help solar energy forecast to stay sunny

11.03.15 Melting ice in west Antarctica could raise seas by three metres, warns study

11.03.15 The day after: How solar can thrive in the post-net metering era

11.02.15 Duke Energy urges regulators to fine advocates in solar case

11.02.15 Arizona gears up for full cost-benefit solar value proceeding

11.02.15 New Enphase solar-storage product combines monitoring, control in a single device

11.02.15 DC Circuit will wait until after Paris climate talks to rule on Clean Power Plan stay

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