32x. Plus. That’s the growth in corporate purchase agreements for renewable energy in just four years, since 2012. Back then, these agreements were about 100 MW, and in 2015 the total was 3.25 GW. The Rocky Mountain Institute expects a whopping 60 GW to be needed for the US corporate market by 2025. Some […]
$29.10 That’s the price of solar power that won the electricity auction in Chile recently – $29/megawatt hour. Total pricing in the auction, which provides about a third of the country’s capacity, was down 40% from a similar process last year, with renewables winning more than half of the contracts. For reference, here are the […]
Three. This is the number of Legos that are on board the Juno spacecraft. Don’t you just love the poetry and romance and scandal that is tangled up in scientific discovery? Stop rolling your eyes – I’m serious! The Juno spacecraft, which reached its intended orbit earlier this month, is named after Jupiter’s wife, who […]
87%. This past Sunday, May 8, for a brief time Germany produced 87% of its total energy consumption from wind and solar. Power prices were actually negative for a few hours. Germany, 4th largest economy in the world. Of course this doesn’t happen every day. Of course there has been some up-front cost to the country’s […]