Richard Stuebi shares an article on the evolving opportunities for fossil power generation.  U.S. wholesale electricity markets are in the midst of significant disruption.  One author has called it “The Breakdown of the Merchant Generation Business Model”. Due to ever-improving economics, large quantities of new natural gas and renewables capacity are being added to the power system, quickly capturing large gains in market share of the nation’s generation mix.  With the resulting surpluses of lower-cost supplies, prices for both energy…

Indranil Ghosh shares an episode from his podcast series, Impact Unicorns. In this episode, he interviews Jason Huang on energy efficiency and sustainable technologies.  Welcome to a new issue of Impact Unicorns! Today, I’ve got a very exciting guest – Jason Huang, CEO and Founder of TS Conductor. This company is a high-efficiency, electrical cable company that just achieved a very impressive Series A funding round. Jason has a PhD in Material Science and comes from a very scientific and…

As the need for change in the energy sector becomes increasingly important, Richard Stuebi provides an article that explains the difference between the microgrid and the minigrid. These days, microgrids are one of the hottest topics in the energy sector.  Capitalizing on the declining costs of many distributed energy resource (DER) options, microgrids are emerging as an increasingly viable business model for augmenting the local electricity grid to improve operational resilience in the wake of emergencies.  “Resilience” is the fundamental…

As the search for energy sources that reduce harm to the environment continues, Edward Kee’s article takes a brave step forward to identify the positive aspects of nuclear power.  Earlier this week (on 11 August 2015), the Sendai 1 nuclear power reactor was restarted and will be the first Japanese reactor to generate power since 2013. Another 20 Japanese nuclear power reactors are in various stages of the restart process, which requires nuclear safety regulator certification that they meet upgraded…

  Kaihan Krippendorff addresses corporate responsibility and climate change and why the energy industry is adding environmental practices to business growth strategies. Our planet is facing an uncertain future. The impact of climate change has reached a point of crisis, and it is up to the organizations of today, and to all of us, to take action. This week our guest on the Outthinkers podcast, Michael Raynor, author of The Strategy Paradox and co-author of The Innovator’s Solution, emphasized the…