by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(This report is from UNH News Service. I’m a little surprised because I thought spent brewing grains were already used as farm feed – my neighbors the chicken farmers get a couple hundred pounds of them each week.) Wet brewers grains, the abundant residues...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The annual forward capacity auction run for the six-state power grid (I wrote about it yesterday) might have produced record-low prices, but it also frustrated some renewable energy creators because of a ultra-wonky regulatory issue: whether state or federal rules...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College is partnering with four electrical tech companies – GE Research, Analog Devices, Empower Semiconductor, and Ampt – to form a National Science Foundation-funded Industry-University Collaborative Research Center, the first one focusing on integrated...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The most intriguing clean-tech story in New Hampshire these days is the secretive-ish company moving into a closed mill in Groveton, where it says it has a new technology can use water power to create hydrogen cleanly. (Here’s my last story on it.) This is cool...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Making electricity in New England is going to keep getting cheaper, judging from the results of the latest regional auction for power production three years down the road. The 14th annual Forward Capacity Auction, in which firms predict the cost of...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Recently I flew to D.C. to visit my family and had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to make my flight in Manchester because the next flight was way too late. Between yawns, I muttered deprecations about American Airlines all day. Vikrant Vaze, an assistant professor of...