Brattleboro Energy Committee - Town of Brattleboro

08/21/2026

Info on global Coal use

https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-tracker?fbclid=IwZnRzaAT0y2dwZG9mBWZkaWQWUM4RSkY-L44kpt-2prmGW9AJBJ-6OGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4hIO5LFo04QexP1B53q_htJdGEH1vSA1bESyx2hgvudGV6nZqMeAM--GKZog_aem_20xDGNYgwhzLU9Bqqhzdvw

The Global Coal Plant Tracker catalogues coal-fired power units worldwide. The tracker monitors every unit with a capacity of 30+ megawatts, including operating units, new units proposed since 2010, and units retired since 2000.

08/18/2026

good Info on Fire safety for lithium ion battery storage]

Battery Energy Storage Fire Safety Toolkit Battery energy storage systems can serve as a clean and reliable source of backup power for homes and businesses. For utilities, batteries can be a cost-effective tool to meet peak demand and provide flexibility to the power grid. When properly installed, b...

08/17/2026

The change in renewables especially vehicles is exploding in China.

China Exports 553,000 EVs In One Month — Up 145%China is complete...

08/11/2026

info on data centers related to energy

As artificial intelligence use spreads, hundreds of data centers are being proposed and built across the United States. These data centers are large, they use a lot of energy, and they are being built extremely quickly, ushering in a new era of rising energy demand which is reshaping our electricity...

07/01/2026

Plug in solar legislation signed today!

Vermont S.202 is on the House Action Calendar May 19, 2026 for final concurrence. Senate added a tenant notice provision on May 14. At $0.248/kWh, Vermont residents could save $265+ per year.

06/29/2026

While Fossil fuels are not subsidized directly in someways renewables are. There are structural financial Aspects that greatly subsidize them
In ways that renewables are not

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06/28/2026

This is very exciting technology for long term
Energy storage of days, not hours

An iron-air battery project that stores electricity using nothing but iron and air is coming to Massachusetts in 2028 — and it promises to deliver long-duration grid storage at a fraction of the cost of lithium. New battery storage projects in Massachusetts are targeting lower power costs and reduced peak demand through a combination of short and long-duration storage technologies, with the most significant being a 400 megawatt-hour iron-air battery installation planned for 2028. Developed by Form Energy, iron-air batteries store electricity by oxidizing iron — essentially controlled rusting — when discharging, and reverse the process using electricity when charging, cycling between rust and iron indefinitely using only the most abundant metal on Earth and the oxygen in ordinary air.

Iron-air batteries cannot charge and discharge as quickly as lithium-ion cells, making them unsuitable for applications requiring rapid power response. But for long-duration grid storage — storing surplus renewable electricity for 100 hours or more and releasing it slowly during extended periods of low wind or solar generation — iron-air batteries offer a cost profile that lithium-ion simply cannot match. Iron is one of the cheapest industrial materials on Earth. Air is free. The raw material cost of an iron-air battery is a small fraction of an equivalent lithium-ion system, and the technology does not degrade through charge cycles the way lithium electrode chemistry does.

Massachusetts is an ideal proving ground for long-duration storage because the state's aggressive renewable energy targets are increasingly creating the multi-day storage challenges that lithium-ion's four-hour discharge window cannot address. Extended periods of cold, calm, cloudy New England winter weather can suppress both solar and wind generation simultaneously for days at a time, creating precisely the grid stress scenario that a 100-hour iron-air battery is purpose-built to solve.

Source: Interesting Engineering, June 2026

06/27/2026

Late Notice. Sunday TOMRROW 6/28 at 2:00
Brattleboro Time Trade is having it's annual meeting with featered guest speaker Susan Alexander.director of ReuseVT.
https://bit.ly/reuseVT
A new state sponsored organization helping to coordinate and promote organizations and groups focused on decreasing waste and promoting sustainability.

Anyone interesed in conencting with her and finding out about the work they are doing is welcome.

it is At the Drawing Studio 28 Williams street , near Elliot and Union. There will be food!

There will be a short discussiuon of time trade business and accomplishments, and she will be on around 2:30.

Check out the ReuseVT Directory ReuseVT: Vermont's New Reuse and Repair Network Welcome to ReuseVT Picture this: You're on a vacation and the wheel of your suitcase jams. This suitcase is perfect except for the wheel, so you decide to buy a replacement wheel instead of throwing the suitcase away. Yo...

06/15/2026

These explanations for the problem of EV battery discharging to zero are pretty accurate

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06/04/2026

So sodium batteries are going into production currently

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