PennEnergy's Renewable Enery News 10/3

Is Distributed Energy Storage the Energiewende’s Missing Link? by Paul Hockenos, Correspondent | October 2, 2014 | 1 Comment
	For years, critics of the Energiewende, Germany’s clean-energy transition, have carped that the country’s power system cannot be based on intermittent generation sources — namely onshore wind and solar PV — without advanced storag... Full Article
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Will Lithium Ion Work for Grid-Scale Storage? by Michael Kanellos | October 2, 2014 | Post Your Comment
	Lithium batteries have revolutionized consumer electronics and made EVs a mainstream reality. But will they play a similar role in energy storage? That was one of the most prominent questions at Energy Storage North America, the s... Full Article
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U.S. Energy Department Approves Transmission Line to Deliver Quebec Hydropower to New York by Michael Harris, Online Editor, HydroWorld.com | October 1, 2014 | Post Your Comment
	The U.S. Department of Energy issued a presidential permit approving construction and operation of a 1,000-MW transmission line to carry Quebec hydroelectric power to customers in New York City. Full Article
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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber by David Chandler, MIT | October 1, 2014 | 2 Comments
	The key to creating a material that would be ideal for converting solar energy to heat is tuning the material’s spectrum of absorption just right: It should absorb virtually all wavelengths of light that reach Earth’s surface from... Full Article
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Renewable Gas from Wastewater Treatment Plant Fueling UK Homes by Louise Downing, Bloomberg | October 1, 2014 | Post Your Comment
	Extracting energy from “processed poo” to help power homes in the Birmingham area is what Severn Trent Plc, Britain’s second-largest publicly traded water company, is now doing to generate a cost-saving renewable gas. Full Article
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Here's a Great Solar Guerrilla Marketing Lesson from a Neighborhood Barbershop by UnThink Solar, Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza | October 1, 2014 | 2 Comments
	I was walking home the other day and I just had to stop when I saw this simple but effective sign: While I didn’t need a haircut, I loved the creativity, and I thought about how this one little sign is a great lesson for some resi... Full Article
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A Bounty of Shared Solar by Laurel Passera | October 1, 2014 | 1 Comment
	I always enjoy learning obscure terms for collective nouns (a convocation of eagles, a bloat of hippopotamuses) so I wonder if we could coin a good term for a collection of shared solar programs? A ‘bounty’ perhaps? Whatever we ca... Full Article
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German Renewables Output Tops Lignite by Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg | October 1, 2014 | 6 Comments
	Renewables became Germany’s most important power source for the first time this year, according to Agora Energiewende. Full Article
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