The Importance of Systems Integrators in Renewable Energy
I have now spent the best part of a week in Washington DC presenting at the George Washington University, meeting influential people in business and NGOs. From these meetings I have come up with a number of ideas. One is that there is a need for a framework for national energy strategies. In my book [...]
In Good Company
Last week the high level lobby organization American Energy Innovation announced a suggested plan for large scale energy systems transformation in the United States. Bill Gates and Jeff Immelt are also going to meet with President Obama on Thursday the 17th of June to discuss the issues related to large scale energy transformation. Among the [...]
Visit to Washington DC 19th to 29th of June
I’m going to visit Washington DC 19th to 29th of June for speaking engagements and meetings. I have been invited to speak to faculty of a major university and there will be meetings with a number of key decision makers in international and US energy related organizations and consulting companies. Bookmark It
How Societies Learn – Early Phase
Books about the peak oil phenomenon have sold in volumes of hundreds of thousands. Some of these have described the tremendous technical challenge of transformation, telling readers that it takes decades to develop and implement new energy technologies and fuels on a large scale. Yet, there is very little debate of how we are going [...]
Straightforward and Complex
The Danish Government has taken away all taxes and fees on electric cars until 2015. This has been done in order to make Denmark a leader in electric car systems. Denmark has set the goal to have 400,000 electric cars on its roads in a few years. With a population of five million this may [...]
