by Graham Palmer | Feb 16, 2020 | Electricity, Energy, EROI, Hydrogen, Oil, Pumped hydro storage, Storage
This is my first post for over a year, and I’m planning on following up with several more posts in the near future. I’ve been working on several projects, including my project engineering role in manufacturing, research projects on hydrogen and a book on...
by Graham Palmer | May 14, 2018 | Electricity
The social contract of electricity service In an address to a group of British engineers in 1892, Hopkinson articulated many of what we would now identify as contemporary problems faced by electricity regulators. Hopkinson explored the issue of fixed versus variable...
by Graham Palmer | Jan 5, 2018 | Electricity, EROI
Renewables and reactive power A transition to higher penetration renewables is going to require much more attention to electricity networks. Most of the generator ancillary services have been essentially built into systems by virtue of using large synchronous...
by Graham Palmer | Dec 5, 2017 | Electricity, Modularity
Electricity generation will be modular The delivery of Elon Musk’s battery is a triumph of modularity. Musk promised the South Australian Government that he would deliver the battery in 100 days and completed ahead of the deadline. Furthermore, wind and solar projects...
by Graham Palmer | Nov 11, 2017 | Electricity, EROI, Uncategorized
The allegory of Flinder’s Island In 2008 US dollars, the Apollo program cost $98 billion, encompassed 17 missions and included six lunar landings. Nobody believes that successfully landing a man on the moon proved that colonising the moon was in any way...
by Graham Palmer | Aug 13, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
Price gouging in Victoria’s electricity retail market The release of the Victorian Independent Review into the Electricity and Gas Markets is damning of retail margins in the electricity market. Most of the focus of the report is on price gouging but I think the...
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