Elisa Wood is a long-time energy writer whose work appears in many of the industry’s top magazines and newsletters.
In addition to AOL Energy, she writes for several McGraw-Hill/Platts Energy publications and
Renewable Energy World, Energy Risk,
Environmental Risk and
Power Engineering International.
She is the author of PennWell’s
US Guide to Renewable Energy and the
US Guide to Combined Heat & Power. Elisa also has contributed to website and book projects for Bloomsbury and McGraw-Hill.
She has won awards from the New England Press Association, the Iowa Press Association, the National Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and others.
Her blog, Energy Efficiency Markets, and other samples of her work are available at
http://www.realenergywriters.com/elisa-wood/
In today’s interconnected energy world, it’s not easy for islands and remote communities, cut off from the ready energy supply of big grids, pipelines and superhighways. Witness the international drama last winter when Nome, Alaska became ice-locked and only secured fuel because of an elaborate sea effort by Russia and the US.
Dependent on the outside world for fossil fuels, places like Nome face not only shortages, but also sky-high energy prices. Some residents of Nome spend 45% of their income on energy. Similarly, Hawaiians pay more than twice as much for electricity as Californians. Keep reading →
View of the Torresol Energy Gemasolar thermasolar plant in Fuentes de Andalucia near Sevilla, southern Spain, taken on October 4, 2011. Gemasolar is the first commercial-scale plant to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology.
Electricity is a hoarder’s worst nightmare. It is difficult to capture and store on a large scale and within seconds of being created it disappears. Keep reading →
