The importance of competent and honest people
A Swedish investment bank HQ Bank has recently lost its permit by the government to run a bank. The reason is its too high risk level. One board member, Catharina Lagerstam, was appointed in April and she did an independent valuation of the holdings by the board meeting in May, at which she said that [...]
A Strategy and a Plan that Combines Many Aspects
A debate is on-going in the New York Times about the future of energy in the US. Bill Gates wrote one article that focused on the need to increase the spending on energy technology research. This article was followed by a reply written by Richard Rosen, a senior fellow of the Tellus Institute in Boston. [...]
Storage of Electricity From Renewable Sources
One of the issues that arise as countries invest in technologies to generate electricity from renewable sources is the need to store electricity in order to bridge the times when there is no wind or no sunshine. During strong winds there are also large volumes of energy that are currently lost. There are numerous ideas [...]
Need to work out the details
Too few resources are invested in the development of strategies for Global Energy Transformation and we spend too much time discussing the technical merits of single technology ideas, without having made an overall map of the transformation landscape. When we discuss smart grids, for instance, we have not yet developed an overall picture of the [...]
The GE Ecomagination Challenge
GETI was pleased to be able to take advantage of the GE Ecomagination Challenge and submit our idea for developing systems integrators. If you’re not familiar with it, you can see the GETI entry here. http://challenge.ecomagination.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=ideas&idea_id=3FE45133-213F-4C3B-AA0E-8FDFD0E3083B. Perhaps for the many energy concerned of you, you may want to submit your own entry. If you feel [...]
…and then there is management…
The American Energy Innovation Council, headed by business leaders such as Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, argues that the reason for the lack of progress in areas of renewable energy is the low level of federal funding in this area. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Bill-Gates-and-the-Energy-Research-Dilemma.html I believe that this is true, but [...]
Important Contributions
Some countries make important contributions to Global Energy Transformation by developing free sofwtware and methods for various aspects of renewable energy projects. RET Screen International is an example of one such software that has been developed by the Canadian government. http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php Now also on-line communities emerge that support users of this sofware, such as the [...]
Reality Check
The Global Energy Transformation Institute has spent the past three years addressing and offering solutions for large-scale energy issues and system inequities. We have before us now a fascinating alignment of technology, events and interest that places this approach in its most formidable position since its conception. Logic is permeating apathy. Minds and attitudes are [...]
Oil spill and carbon emissions not enough
In The Daily Beast of the 8th of July BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not enough to create a bipartisan majority in favor of taking America off it’s addiction to oil. No, neither carbon emissions, nor a major oil spill is likely to be enough. The fact that will eventually do [...]
Systems Integrators
One of the areas of interest for GET Institute that did emerge during my trip to the US is the role of systems integrators in the large scale transformation of energy related systems. This has up until now been largely neglected in the debate, but beside the energy technologies and national strategies for energy transformation, [...]
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