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The article discusses the value of the utility-scale energy storage in the current generation ecosystem. It highlights several sources of renewable energy such as wind power and solar power. It also stresses the cost-effectiveness of the energy storage solutions which help reduce the cost of electricity in the industrial facilities and houses.

The article focuses on the hybridization of power plants. Topics discussed include the shift from coal-fired generation to renewable energy sources, the economic pressures that impede the adoption of emerging technologies, and the cooperative arrangement that govern hybrid facilities wherein several energy sources are harnessed to produce separate but parallel steam paths. Hybridization examples from the Next Generation Solar Energy Center and the Stillwater Hybrid Power Plant are mentioned.

The article offers information on the U.S. biomass generation industry. Topics include the informality of the biomass generation market due to the materials used by the industry that are not considered as commodities, challenges to the biomass market including the variability of terrain across the country and its dependence on geography, and technologies used for biomass generation including bubbling fluidized bed technology and stoker technology.

The article focuses on energy storage in an era of renewable resources and explores various energy storage technologies. The topics discussed include the projected growth in worldwide storage capacity and revenue from utility-scale storage batteries from 2014 to 2023, the five main categories of energy storage technologies as of April 2015 that include chemical batteries, compressed air, and pumped storage hydro, and the drivers of and barriers to the growth of the energy storage industry.

The article discusses the relationship between nuclear power and renewable energy with focus on the potential for nuclear power to rightly be considered a form of renewable energy. The challenges facing the nuclear power from the economic pressures of low-cost natural gas and the political and environmental fallout of nuclear disasters are tackled. The author also reflects on the continued role played by nuclear power in an increasingly renewable landscape.

The author reflects on the growth in the use of gas-fired power plants and its impact on coal-fired generation. Topics covered include the preference shown for natural gas, the development of hybrid power plants which represent fossil plants that add renewable resources to their facilities and the factors driving the addition of renewable assets like the potential for carbon pricing. Also mentioned is the benefit obtained by renewable technologies from their relationship to fossil plants.