BECCS requires plants and trees to be grown, cut down, and combusted to generate electricity. The associated carbon emissions are captured and sequestrated underground. Source: NASA.
Hydrokinetic turbine which uses the flow of the river to produce electricity in the Yukon River, Alaska, U.S.A. Source: Monty Worthington.
In addition to centralized energy generation and energy storage, distributed energy resources (DERs) will play a major role in the clean energy transition. DERs refer to assets located on the electric grid capable of independently generating and/or storing electricity. DERs have several benefits:
The Castle Creek Station was installed in 2019 and began collecting data in the summer of 2020. Located at an elevation of around 11,500 feet, the station is located in a clearing on a sub-alpine slope. This station is powered by solar panel and measures snow depth, wind speed and direction, radiative balance, air temperature, relative humidity, soil temperature at an 8in depth, and soil moisture at 2, 8, and 20 inch depths.
