In the US, the Federal Government's National Renewable Energy Lab released the 2024 "Annual Technology Baseline" a couple of weeks ago. The large, yearly dataset does a few things. For one, it collects data on constructed electricity generators by type...

Last month, Christian Graul re-published "bReeze: Functions for Wind Resource Assessment" on CRAN. This is wonderful news: it gives R users a chance at the functionality which Python has in windpowerlib. I admit I am a bit late to the party--the original version was published way back in 2018, but there's ...

Before moving on to the final part of this series on solar irradiance and solar PV power across Alberta, I wanted to do a little segway and talk about how albedo is a particularly relevant issue for the workings of PV panels in Alberta and similar places. This is also ...

Before moving on to the final part of this series on solar irradiance and solar PV power across Alberta, I wanted to do a little segway and talk about how albedo is a particularly relevant issue for the workings of PV panels in Alberta and similar places. This is also ...

Been a while since I've blogged here; wrapping up an MSc and moving continents from Europe to North America is all the excuse I need. This blog post is not going to be revolutionary, and obviously it builds on a lot of what others have done before (see...

Reducing carbon emissions is maybe the world's most pressing challenge at the moment. One obvious avenue for action is the reduction of carbon emissions from electricity generation, which are a significant contributor to global carbon emissions overall. This is particularly true if trends now in place continue undisturbed, with the ...