There is a new world wide web emerging right before our eyes. It is a global energy network and, like the internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business. More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy. STELLAR SOLAR -- STELLARSOLAR.NET Enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world's energy needs for a full year. There is no energy supply problem, there is an energy distribution problem -- and the emerging solution is a new world wide web of electricity. Chinese Version 中 文版 |
The articles, reports and presentations listed below describe the emergence of this new global energy network
and are organized into several sections:
recent presentations by the author
resources supplied by Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) and
- background on current Smart Grid efforts, which are integral to transforming the global energy network.
These articles document changes in the electric utility industry, the deployment of solar energy and other renewable energy resources, which are helping to fuel dramatic shifts in the market for decentralized electricity.
World Economic Forum - Energy Strategy Meeting, May 10, 2007Speaker NotesGlobal Energy Grid SlidesBiographical Notes - Michael Powers Stanford University Energy Conference, March 3, 2007Stanford University Presentation on Global Energy Network News Release: "New World Wide Web" Key to Fighting Climate Change says expert Global Energy Network InstituteFrom Scarcity to Abundance: A World That Works for Everyone Making the World Work for 100% of Humanity: Responding to 9/11GENI: The Global Energy Network InstituteSpontaneous Cooperation: Overview of Interconnection Projects Now UnderwayGlobal Energy Futures and Human Development: A Framework for Analysis (.pdf) My Endorsement of the Global Energy Grid by Walter Cronkite"There is no energy crisis; there is a crisis of ignorance" (GENI video) Electricity in Africa: the Dark Continent Economist.com
Discussions on Smart Grid & Transmission Backbone Issues NREL Regional Transmission Grid Interconnection Seams Study (July 2018) Time to Upgrade America's 19th Century Electric Grid (June 2018) EU JRC Report on Europe-China HVDC Transmission Link (Dec 2017) Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) White Paper (Feb 2017)GEI Worldwide Conference Schedule for 2017 Summary of News Coverage on China's Global Energy Grid (Mar-Apr 2016) Connecting the Americas 2022 Initiative (Oct. 2012 - US State Dept) China's Vision of a Global Energy Grid: "A Grid to Knit Together the World" (2016)Supergrid -- Report on integrating renewable energy in Europe and N. Aftrica (2016)Future cost-competitive electricity systems, CO2 Impact (2016)"Let's Build a Global Power Grid" - Clark Gelling, IEEE Spectrum (2015) Roadmap for Re-Powering California with Wind, Water & Sunlight (.pdf - 2014)Rocky Mountain Institute: New business models for electric utility industry (.pdf - 2013)"Utilities Unbundled" (.pdf document from EY.com - 2013) Tres Amigas Superstation Project (Clovis, NM) Phillip Harris video on the Tres Amigas Project (IIEA 2010)FERC Presentation on Tres Amigas Project (Manz, June 26,2013) Short promo video on Tres Amigas ProjectMISO Presentation on Midwest HVDC Network Concept (Jan 7, 2014) Energy, Matter & MoneyUnderground HVDC Supergrid Can Work in Europe (Faulkner, March 2014-.pdf) Asian Supergrid Gains Key Political and Business Support (Jan.31,2014) The European Supergrid and the Blue Growth Strategy (.pdf - Malta 2013) Electricity Transmission & Impact on the Renewable Energy Market (.pdf - WRI, May 2011) Superconducting Cable Technology for Renewable Energy Transmission (.pdf - WIREC 2008)Solutions for Smart and Super Grids with HVDC and FACTS (IEEMA Journal, June 2009)Enabling Renewable Energy with a Robust Grid (.pdf - WIREC 2008)WIRES: Working Group for Investment in Reliable and Economic Electric SystemsNational Perspective: Allocating the Costs of New Transmission Investment(.pdf) (2007)Integration of Renewable Resources California ISO Report (.pdf) (Nov. 2007)SuperPower plans for amazing future (superconductivity) Albany Times Union, March 4, 2007Powering Up the Smart Grid A Special Report from Climate Solutions, July 2005UN Report: Multi-Dimensional Issues in Int'l. Electric Power Grid Interconnections (2005)Transmission: The Critical Link National Grid White Paper (.pdf) (2005)"Plugging in the Consumer" - IBM Report on Innovating Utility Business Models for the Future2007 IBM Consumer Survey on Energy ExpectationDecoupling Policies: Options to Encourage Energy Efficiency Policies for Utilities (2010)Remote Net Metering and Other Pollicies for High Energy Users (2011)Jeremy Rifkin RSA presentation (video) on distributed energy (Mar. 2010) Green Power Superhighways (SEIA Report - Jan. 2009)100% Renewable Electricity -- A roadmap to 2050 for Europe and N. Africa (Mar. 2010)The Electricity Economy - New Opportunities from Transformation of the Electric Power Sector (Aug. 2008)Smart Lines: Transmission for the Renewable Energy Economy (.pdf)The Emerging ElectranetBob Metcalfe's "Enernet" presentation (July, 2009)Bob Metcalfe "Enernet" Interview (Feb 2011, SXSW) Galvin Electricity InitiativeGlobal Smart EnergySmart Grid NewsletterGridWise AllianceConference Report, Super Grids 1 and 2, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMicrogrids as peer-to-peer energy BBC, 2005Transforming the Electric Infrastructure by Clark Gellings and Kurt Yeager, 2004Followup: Transforming the Electric Infrastructure Physics Today, 2004Building Tomorrow's Supergrid EnergyBiz Magazine, Sept 2006A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy Scientific American, June 2006A Supergrid for Europe MIT Technology Review, 2006 Building a Smarter Power Grid Technology Review, 2001The Energy Web: Reinventing the Electrical Grid for the 21st Century Wired Magazine, 2001High -Temperature Superconducting Transmission Lines: An Overview Global Energy Grids and Electric Utilities Around the World Blockchain in the Energy Transition: A Survey Report (.pdf) (2016)EY Report: Digital Grid - Powering the Future of Utilities (.pdf) (2016) DESERTEC Project: Clean Power from Deserts (White Paper)DESERTEC Project VideoGRENATEC - Pan Asian Supergrid Video Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC)TREC UK Friends of the Supergrid BritNed – Europe’s link for the futureRussia Plans World's Largest Tunnel, a Link to Alaska Bloomberg.comGov. Walter Hickel's Report to Bering Strait Tunnel Conference Moscow, April 2007Bering Strait Tunnel ProjectAEP Interstate Vision: Transmission Backbone for Integration of Wind EnergyFuture Global Energy Prosperity: The Terawatt Challenge Richard E. SmalleyGlobal Power: The Electric Hypergrid New Scientist Magazine, 1995Global electric ‘power highways’ could become a force for peacePeople Power: Big Power Plants on the Way Out New Scientist Magazine, 2001"Why War? Why Not Big Projects?" Walter Hickel's Address to UN NGO ConferenceThe Baltic Ring: a Common Electricity Market in the Baltic Sea RegionThe East-West Energy Bridge: Pacific Rim IntertieElectric Utilities: A Changing Industry, An Instrument of ChangeA Message in a Bottle... to Google Executives (2007)Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs"Our Children, Climate, Faith Symposium (2013) A World That Works for Everyone - (2018)
Solar Power on a Global LevelRFK, Jr Keynote Speech at Solar Power International, 2009Solar Thermal Electricity as the Primary Replacement for Coal and Oil in U.S. (.pdf - 2008)Solar Thermal as the Plausible Basis for Grid Supply (.pdf - 2007)Solar Electric Home Energy Systems: A Typical InstallationSolar Electric Home: Live Readings from Operating System (Enphase Microinverter)Solar Electric Home: Live Readings from Opererating System (SunPower Monitor)"People Power - The End of Big Generators"How Much PV Area Needed to Equal U.S.Electricity Production?San Diego Solar Power, San Diego Solar Panels, San Diego Solar EnergyTerraWatts News Link Pages
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