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Renewable energy articles from the PES renewable energy magazine and website.

Warning: BASE jumpers are coming..

In 1912 Frederick Law jumped from the Statue of Liberty in New York City and the modern-day sport of BASE-jumping was born. BASE, an acronym standing for the four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: Building, Antenna, Span and Earth, has been gaining in popularity recently and it was only ever a matter of time before its participants headed towards the wind turbines of the US … One has to see the inevitability of it all.

Jennifer Layke, Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute, and Rick Bunch, Managing Director, The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, discuss a number of options for overcoming the real and perceived challenges to wind power purchasing.

The US military is taking a lead in using economically-viable wind farms to generate low-cost energy for its installations around the US and abroad. While, at face value, this seems to be excellent news for the renewables industry, there is a potential major flaw in the plan, as PES discovers… It was recently reported that the US Army wanted to adopt a new type of renewable energy-based technology.

PES looks at how seaways and rail networks are helping to speed up the continent’s bid for a more ecologically-sound future, based around wind farm technology. Picture the scene: you’re driving along a narrow road in small town America. It’s a like a scene from a Wim Wenders movie with maybe just a dash of the Coen Brothers thrown in for good measure. You’re enjoying the ride, the scenery is superb and your favorite Bruce Springsteen track – Born in the USA (what else?) – blares from your state-of-the-art stereo system.

‘Integration’ of renewable energy: what it..

A new buzzword is striking fear and excitement in the hearts and minds of renewable energy developers and transmission providers: ‘integration.’ The term can get stakeholders from all sides of the energy industry shouting across the table. It is also a sign of how far the renewable energy industry has come in making resources such as wind and solar energy a larger part of our domestic energy portfolio. So what does integration mean and how should we in the industry be feeling about it? In the context of renewable energy, ‘integration’ refers to a transmission provider’s use of balancing reserves to accommodate the natural variability of renewable resources.

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