We talk abstractly about 'clean firm power' as a resource class in our toolbox, but there is a frighteningly small pool of techs with the potential to actually deliver it at scale before 2050: next-gen geothermal, advanced nuclear, and (with methane leakage mitigation) Allam-cycle gas
Here are the top 10 clean energy projects that we're keeping an eye on, including: ☀️ Intersect Power's solar farm, Easley 🔋 Cambridge Energy Storage Project 💨 SunZia Wind Read more from @emilypont.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social below.
Why the grid of the future might hinge on these 10 projects.
Doesn’t hydro do this? As I understand opening floodgates to power generation is very fast. Or by scalable do you mean expandable? Pretty sure we’ve tapped out most of the hydro potential in the US at least.
The success of just a few pilot projects happening now - Fervo's Cape Station, the nuclear demos by TerraPower and XEnergy, and NETPower's Project Permian - will determine whether clean firm power is actually part of our toolbox in the 2030s and beyond. If not, the problem becomes much harder.