Category Archives: Sustainability

The new economics of energy storage

Posted on June 5, 2017 by | Leave a comment

This article by David Frankel and Amy Wagner (June 2017) shows why it is reasonable to expect battery storage to disrupt the power and utility sector.

Source: Battery storage: The next disruptive technology in the power sector | McKinsey & Company

This older article by Paolo D’Aprile (August 2016) has good economic insight into the extreme segmentation of electricity markets ane their suitability for batterry or other storage of energy.

Energy storage can make money right now. Finding the opportunities requires digging into real-world data.

Source: The new economics of energy storage | McKinsey & Company

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Shanghai port, world’s busiest, grapples with traffic congestion

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

Fog is causing massive congestion at the Port of Shanghai.  Over 100 ships are waiting to berth.  Not fun.  Will shippers stop using Shanghai?

Source: Shanghai port, world’s busiest, grapples with traffic congestion

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Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

An eye-opening article via The Loadstar. Over 17% of urban congestion is delivery trucks. The USPS now delivers 5.1 billion packages a year. That is over 10 packages each.

I know I am responsible for a lot more than that.

The source article is below.

Source: Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom – The Loadstar

  It’s the flip-side to the “retail apocalypse:” A siege of delivery trucks is threatening to choke cities with traffic. But not everyone agrees on what to do about it.

Source: How Cities Are Coping With the Delivery Truck Boom – CityLab

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